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The interesting thing is in my eyes the upcoming of Phariseeism (the church as a community of the just or saint people) and, as its counterpart, the Jesus movement (the church as a community of sinners). That is a division which needs to be kept up, even if it is uncomfortable for Anabaptists.

I don't think that the bible, as a whole, CAN be the foundation of any religion. You cannot copy all role models at the same time. The book developed over nearly thousand years.

I have decided to pack my sporadic comments of AW ("Anabaptist World") articles into one regular topic, commenting articles I find particularly obnoxious, disturbing and absurd. (In former times I have written letters-to-the-editors, but in the meantime the editors have decided that they d...

Some random thoughts: 1. Quakers preferred grey clothing (which became a distinctive marker), but if we look into the beginnings, the idea was to have clothing in the natural colour of the threads, without any kind of "colouring". I have not found if this was equally handled for wool and f...

"Justice" is an interesting field for critique, but that cannot work without a regular observation and commentation. Which afaik doesn't exist in Anabaptist circles. One of my particular concerns is the Plea Deal - in my eyes a way to extort confessions by "showing the instruments&quo...

As for the "insurrection", I have argued that Democrats never believed in a real danger of insurrection, because they have not discussed nor taken any precautionary measures against future insurrections. (For example, when the Germans truly feared an "insurrection" in 1918 Berlin...

If you are from non-anabaptist background, what is it that drew you to the anabaptist? Basically I wanted to escape the Barthian prison in which I was educated. And John Yoder was the one and only man who argued against Barth on his own level (having studied under Barth for a while) and I found just...

Well, I bought a refurbished phone via ebay, and it was indeed refurbished - only it was no longer supported by any Internet provider,so - no Internet.

I am happy that Anabaptists still shy away from becoming judges etc. But i miss a clear and reasonable theological standpoint - the religious "leaders" don't want to speak about that. Myself, I remember that I wrote about this some years ago, and I mentioned as one of the central problems ...

We may call it a certain success for pacifists that wars have to be framed as "a means to promote permanent peace" nowadays. That started with WW1 ("the war to end all wars"), was revived in WW2 and lures behind the momentaneous wars which are generally justified by references to...