Meanwhile over at Anabaptist World...

[HondurasKeiser]

This is Anabaptism?

1. We have to stop devaluing sensuality in the name of faith and repeating the same tired talking points about women’s desirability and value.
2. If you are wrestling with what the Bible has to say about sexual orientation or gender identity, the Reformation Project is a good starting point.
3. In case you’re confused about what is and isn’t socialism, Relevant has some info for you.
4. If you aren’t familiar with the story of Fred Hampton, you should check out Judas and the Black Messiah.
5. More truth about the Black Panther Party.

[PetrChelcicky]

I read "Anabaptist World" regularly (I generally prefer American sources to German sources, because American intellectual fashions of today are the German intellectual fashions of tomorrow.)
And often I am inclined to comment what I would call progressive humbug, and to comment it here (where else?) (For example, Klassen resp. "Relevant" thinks that Critical Race Theory has nothing to do with Marxism, whereas I am certain that these theorists have learned their sloppy use of the catchword "system" just from the Marxists.) But then I think: Why shoud I incovenience people here with problems that are not their problems?
So should we ignore "Anabaptist World"? At least as long as the speaking points don't show up here, I suppose.

[temporal1]

PetrC:
.. So should we ignore "Anabaptist World"? ..

i do not read it.
but i would not want to miss the treat of reading about it here, through others, such as, HK and PC.
thank you for taking the time.

[Outsider]

This is Anabaptism?

1. We have to stop devaluing sensuality in the name of faith and repeating the same tired talking points about women’s desirability and value.
2. If you are wrestling with what the Bible has to say about sexual orientation or gender identity, the Reformation Project is a good starting point.
3. In case you’re confused about what is and isn’t socialism, Relevant has some info for you.
4. If you aren’t familiar with the story of Fred Hampton, you should check out Judas and the Black Messiah.
5. More truth about the Black Panther Party.

Wow.

[Josh]

Once Rachel Stella left, I quit reading it; she was the last voice of reason at that outlet.

[PetrChelcicky]

Well, now that we have that thread i will use it.
My present choice of a particular problematic column is this:
https://anabaptistworld.org/after-the-e ... h-purpose/

"I think we receive grace in vain when we don’t use it to stand with the minority: the abused, hungry, homeless, victims of racism and inequality."

Contrary to this, I think we receive grace in vain if if we haven't overcome the reflex of automatically taking sides. I my textbool Jesus died for (to overcome the urge to retaliate) the sins of all mankind.
Minorities are not necessary better than majorities (what's with "market-dominant minorities", take for example Chinese in Malaysia; have we to take automatically the side of the Chinese against the Malaians?)
And what are "victims of inequality". I know that there is a man named Roman Abramaovich in Britain who has enough money to buy a lot of yachts and even a famous soccer club (the ultimate of "conspicuous consumption") We are unequal, but I don't think that I am a victim.
There remain the homeless and the hungry, in my eyes not because they are unequal, but because they are in need.

The column then praises a Nigerian Pastor who went back to his homeland in order to support the persecuted urban Christians against the attacking Fulani herdsmen. That's fine with me, but it doesn't imply that we all have to take the side of the persecuted urban Christians. As an old-fashioned liberal pacifist I think that both sides need to hear each other. So when in this column the author speaks about the "voiceless" Christians, my reaction is to ask: Our Western media, if they report at all, take normally the side of the Christians; thus, are not the Fulani herdsmen even more "voiceless" and more in need of "a voice".