Peace

This issue brings together responses to the article on ‘Misremembering God’ in the previous issue, fresh research on Amish identity, and explorations of Anabaptism’s dialogue with anarchism. It also includes a Covid-19 reflection and a set of timely book reviews.

From a misremembered God to forgotten confessions, this issue traces how Anabaptist imagination is stretched, challenged, and renewed. Voices old and new converge – Quaker mystics, Amish craftsmen, ecological poets, and sharp eyed theologians – each probing what faithful witness might look like today.

It has been said that no Anabaptist martyr story has captured the imagination more than the story of Dirk Willems. Every time I think about it, it raises more questions in my head. As a runner I am impressed with his attempt to run for his life. But where was he running to?

This video is the fifth and final in the Transmission series, and explores the subject of Peace and Justice.

Stuart Murray Williams offers some thoughts on the churches role in processing military defeats.

A collection of resources for finding Peace themes in the Pentecost story.