April 2000 “On Civilizing the Nogais": Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 JOHN R. STAPLES* Abstract: Mennonites lived alongside Nogais-semi-nomadic Tatar pastoralists-in the Molochna region of southern Ukraine from 1803, when Mennonites first arrived, until 1860, when the Nogais departed. In…
January 2000 “Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good”: How Menno Caused a Reformed Pastor to Travel from Murten to Moravia HANSPETER JECKER* Abstract: Jakob Gelthuser, a Reformed pastor from the Swiss village of Murten, broke…
April 2000 Research note: Identifying Jacob Ammann JOHN HPPI* Jacob Ammann, whose reform movement in Alsace, Switzerland and the Palatinate led to a well-known and painful schism in the 1690s, is one of the most controversial figures in Anabaptist…
April 2000 Research Note: On the Trail of Jacob Ammann MARK FURNER* During several months of combing through the Bernese government council minutes from the time following the repression of Anabaptism, I came across an early reference to Jakob Ammann.
January 2000 THE MENNONITE YEAR IN REVIEW Purple Clematis and Yellow Pine: On Cemeteries, Irony and Difference MARLENE EPP* Although I am a historian, I am not drawn to cemeteries. I rarely visit them, either as a researcher in…
January 2000 THE MENNONITE YEAR IN REVIEW Minding Us Mennonites PHYLLIS PELLMAN GOOD* I think of us Mennonites as a rather muscular group-small, scattered, varied, but still making some difference in the world. So I was a little…
January 1999 RENEWING THE CONVERSATION: MENNONITE RESPONSES TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL EARL ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: Mennonite responses to the Second Vatican Council as reported in North American Mennonite publications indicated a new spirit of openness among Mennonites toward Catholics. Mennonite…
July 1999 Of Borders and Boundaries: Reflections on Mennonite Unity and Separation in the Modern World JAMES URRY* Abstract: The writing of national Mennonite histories, such as those recently completed in the United States and Canada, assumes a…
April 1999 Mennonite Debates About Church Architecture In Europe And America: Questions Of History And Theology KEITH L. SPRUNGER Abstract: Mennonite church buildings (or meetinghouses) are traditionally simple and plain. One can find numerous examples of the Mennonite plain architectural…
July 1999 Discipleship, Generational Change and the Practice of Mennonite History THERON F. SCHLABACH* Abstract. In the early 1940s, a generational transition among historians engaged in Mennonite history produced a fine historiographical debate. In the 1990s another…
