Need something to keep your mind off today's happenings? How about reading Andrea Cramer's article "The work of welcome in the wake of war: The story of Neighbor to Neighbor" in the latest issue of Vision?
https://t.co/wGWDWdo3Vy
The spring 2025 issue of VISION on war and peace is now live, featuring articles by @Jonnyrashid, @Jannahunterbow1, and many more, including prayers for peace by @carol_penner! Read for free here:
https://t.co/68YkAx5lXe
In her article "Job and disability theology," assistant professor of pastoral care at @AMBS_seminary Leah Thomas the book of Job through the lens of René Girard's scapegoat theory and disability theology. Read it here!
https://t.co/7VxKMzABNP
In his article "Disability contra Docetism," @danremps writes that "there is something about the focus on the disabled Christ that leads us to reject the allure of Docetism and move toward a more faithful Nachfolge of God incarnate." Read more here:
https://t.co/n8UK35Mt8Y
In her editorial, Jackie Wyse-Rhodes writes: "This issue of Vision serves as a tribute to the profound way Nancy Eiesland's life and work inaugurated—and continues to enliven—theologies that center disabled people." Read more here:
https://t.co/RoLPZteBu6
The fall 2024 issue of Vision on disability, edited by Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, is now available *for free* online. Check it out at this link!
https://t.co/JOT0Fubdf6
IMS's new addition of Mennonite Peace Theology: A Panorama of Types is now available for purchase! This includes an analysis of 10 types of pacifism, plus a new preface by Alain Epp Weaver, and a new type and afterword by theologian Malinda Berry!
https://t.co/Ho3doGvsmK
Mennonite Church Canada is launching an urgent relief appeal for the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia. MKC leaders and adherents have lost their lives in the crossfire of a tribal conflict that began in the western region of Ethiopia in 2018.
https://t.co/2ylsKmlqft
In "Five hundred years of Anabaptism and colonization," Executive Director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery Sarah Augustine (@sarahaugustine0) calls Mennonites to reckon with their history with Indigenous people. Read here:
https://t.co/o1RUm35Kip
In his article "Anabaptism in Ethiopia: Six markers of the Meserete Kristos Church," @AMBS_seminary's global leadership collaborative specialist Henok Mekonin introduces Vision readers to the MKC and its six core practices. Read for free here:
https://t.co/3KxUZhYHSc
"White Anabaptists are known to offer vital and powerful anti-Christendom critiques, but for centuries this has not traditionally included a critique of white supremacy and colonial conquest."
Susanne Guenther Loewen's latest essay for Vision, "Martyrdom and double tellings: Remembering resistance and trauma," is now available for free online at this link! In the essay, Loewen reads martyr stories through the lens of trauma theology.
https://t.co/BE3ZEBsNE3
In his essay "Anabaptist reparations after 500 years: Mennonites and the Doctrine of Discovery," Drew G. I. Hart (@DruHart) calls Anabaptists to reckoning with their history for their 500th anniversary.
Read the entire article for free here: https://t.co/q8dt15UJ5Z
In our latest issue of Vision, Hans Werner of the University of Winnipeg helps Mennonites navigate our history with Jews in his article, "Anabaptism and Jews: Collective memory and failure." Read the article for free here:
https://t.co/yIT12X65zo
We're excited for the release of the latest volume in our Classics of the Radical Reformation (CRR) series, now published by our friends at Plough (@PloughBooks)!
IMS and @AMBS_seminary hosted Nick Martin (@lancnick) from @MennoniteAction for our Friday afternoon break. Nick shared about his upbringing as a Mennonite and how that compelled him toward activism, most recently for ceasefire in Gaza.
We have an all-star line-up of authors—including @sarahaugustine0, @DruHart, @sjohnsonk, and many others—and compelling articles on martyrs, Mennonites and Jews, colonialization, reparations, the global Anabaptist church, and more!
The spring 2024 issue of Vision, "Commemorating Anabaptism’s 500 years," edited by Karl Koop, is now available for free online!
https://t.co/etWh56hVr9