“Baptism is not washing with water: but it is the baptism of the Spirit, the confession of the mouth, and the washing with water.” When he was exiled to Amsterdam from his native England, John Smyth ...

Both the Amish and Mennonites descended from the Anabaptist movement (belief in adult baptism) of the early 1500s. In 1693, a divide among Swiss Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann led to the creation of ...

Almost 18 years ago I sat on the terrace of a Berkeley coffee bar waiting to meet John Howard Yoder, the well-known Mennonite theologian and ethicist. I was about to leave Berkeley to join the faculty ...

The Amish Mennonite church has its roots in the Reformation of 1517 and from the subsequent Anabaptist movement that started … The Amish Mennonite church has its roots in the Reformation of 1517 and ...

The Kauffman Museum in Kansas explores the history of the Mennonites, a small-but-influential denomination. (photo by Bob Sessions) One of the religious groups I’ve always admired are the Mennonites.