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Becoming "one of us" is not good if it means accepting accepting all the baggage that we may have accumulated in those 500 years. I feel after 500 years it may be time for "us" to unload some baggage and go back to the original zeal of those Anabaptist ancestors, to search out a...

Peregrino wrote:They aren't the founders of Anabaptism, they joined after the movement had gained momentum. Being more educated than some, they wrote a lot and became the unofficial "face" of Anabaptism to outsiders.

Good point!

In your observation, how many Anabaptists actually read the writings of the early founders of the Anabaptist movements, such as The Complete Works of Menno Simons or the Handbook by Dirk Philips? Do you think it's at all important to know what they believed or have we moved on and their writings are...

My observation is that smaller churches that are recently established and more out of the way (in remote areas) and that are more diverse often will often have a culture that isn't as "strong" and as "demanding". I'm thinking of one small church that was in a fairly remote area b...