Respect and Difference in the Anabaptist WorldI believe that respect for difference is an unspoken element of Anabaptist belief that needs to be appreciated, talked about, and…Sep 20, 2024Sep 20, 2024
Jana Duggar… a Mennonite? Christian Nationalism among the Evangelical-ized MennonitesThe Wissmann family blog, along with the 10Burnetts and Bontrager blogs, were among homeschool pages I used to follow way back in the day…Aug 17, 20241Aug 17, 20241
Spiritual Abuse: A “Power and Control” WheelToo often, we focus on the external facets of a high-control religious group, the things that make them weird . With the…Jul 4, 2024Jul 4, 2024
Ex-Plain Atheists — friends, not foes!Having previously written about sexual abuse coverup and re-victimization in both the mainstream and plain Anabaptist world and reviewed…Apr 4, 2024Apr 4, 2024
Preach, Pray, Prophesy… and Protest? On Anabaptists and Comfort ZonesOne thing I respect about Dietrich Bonhoeffer is that while his commitment to peacemaking and to Jesus’s teachings have stood the test of…Mar 16, 2024Mar 16, 2024
Evangelical Moral Hysteria: Historic Sexual Violence and the Myth of “Family Breakdown”Laura Ingalls lay in an unfamiliar bed, away from her family. She was not yet an acclaimed author, just a little girl forced by poverty to…Nov 6, 20233Nov 6, 20233
Not Slaves But Sons — Discipleship and the Household of GodIn a previous essay, I explored how the kind of discipleship model we see in the New Testament is that of example and imitation, which…Sep 14, 2023Sep 14, 2023
Talking Back: Colonized Women & the Colonizing AcademyMignolo says that the church, the academy, and the museum are the institutions of colonial modernity.Aug 16, 20231Aug 16, 20231
“Benevolent Guardianship”: The Ideologica Roots of both Complementarianism and Christian…This is an overview of natural law and imperial ideology as it found its way into theology, Western civilization, and imperial Christendom…Jul 9, 2023Jul 9, 2023