John Roth presents the Figel Lecture for Ecumenism Director of the ISGA, John D. Roth, received the Washington Theological Consortium Ecumenism Annual at a service at the Virginia Theological Seminary on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. He received the award alongside Dr. Timothy Wengert, professor emeritus at United Lutheran Seminary in…
In preparation for Renewal 2027 in Kisumu, Kenya this April, the ISGA—with grant support from the Schowalter Foundation—published three new translations of John Driver’s Life Together in the Spirit. Originally published in Spanish, the ISGA helped to create an English version, along with a new introduction and as responses from…
ISGA director, John D. Roth wrestled with this question in his recent article in the Mennonite Quarterly Review “How to Commemorate a Division? Reflections on the 500th Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation and its Relevance for the Global Anabaptist-Mennonite Church Today.” This conversation has sparked further reflections, including responses by…
The second celebration in a 10-year series of events commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist movement will be held this spring in Kisumu, Kenya. Anabaptist-Mennonite speakers from around the world will reflect on the theme “The Holy Spirit transforming us,” exploring how Anabaptist-Mennonites have understood the Spirit in the…
More than 150 people representing nearly a dozen different denominational traditions gathered on the campus of Goshen College, September 14-16, to participate in “Word, Spirit, and the Renewal of the Church,” the 18th Believers’ Church conference since the series began in 1967. The conference, co-sponsored by ISGA, Goshen College, and…
Biblioteca Digital Anabautista The digitization of materials for the Biblioteca Digital Anabautista (BiDA) continues. The ISGA, Mennonite Historical Library, and AMBS have been collaborating on the development of a digital library of Anabaptist-Mennonite theological resources in Spanish. Hosted by ISGA’s Global Anbaptist Wiki (www.anabaptistwiki.org) and supported by…
The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) has found a new home with the ISGA. On May 19, 2017, members of the GAMEO management board voted unanimously to transfer oversight of the project to ISGA. John D. Roth will serve in a new position as the project’s general editor.
Front Row: John D. Roth, Cari Friesen, Emily Welty, Jan Bender Shelter, Pablo Kim, Elizabeth Miller, Wendy Urban-Mead, John Eicher. Back Row: Anika Fast, Jamie Pitts, Wilbert Shenk, Joe Sawatzky, Bruce Yoder, Jeremy Rich, Brent Kipfer, Ben Goossen. In late spring, nearly 20 professors, mission workers, pastors,…
By ISGA Director John D. Roth On January 24, 1982, leaders in the Marxist government of Ethiopia, who had seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie six years earlier, initiated a series of restrictive policies against the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC), a renewal movement of some 5,000 members that had emerged…
Recently the ISGA received a $20,000 grant from the Schowalter Foundation to translate three works of significance to global Anabaptism into four different languages—Spanish, French, Amharic, and either Hindi or Bahasa Indonesia. Mennonite World Conference expressed an interest in offering the following titles to their member churches, and the ISGA…
