Anabaptist Witness

A global Anabaptist and Mennonite dialogue on key issues facing the church in mission

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Witness in Palestine and Israel

Mennonite Central Committee workers arrived in the West Bank in 1950 to assist Palestinian refugees displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Since then Mennonites have been involved in a variety of ministries in Palestine and Israel, from a hospital in Nazareth to scholarly research in Jerusalem to an English Language program in Gaza City. Authors in this issue of Anabaptist Witness reflect on 75 years of Mennonite witness in the region, in addition to topics such as challenges raised for Anabaptists by Palestinian liberation theology; the 2017 Mennonite Church USA resolution "Seeking Peace in Israel and Palestine"; and recent efforts to organize Mennonites in the US to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The issue includes essays, sermons, poetry, and images.

November 2024

Film review by Mark J.H. Klassen

Review of The Mission directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss

Book review by Josh Wallace

Review of Disrupting Mercy: The Gift of Extreme Kindness Motivated by Compassion by Matthew C. Clarke

Book review by Luis Tapia

Review of Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness by Sarosh Koshy

Academic article by John Kampen

An Earnest Effort Falls Short

Academic article by André Gingerich Stoner

Cultivating a Common Mind on Israel-Palestine

From the blog

By André Gingerich Stoner Posted on December 4, 2024

Response to Kampen

This blog post responds to John Kampen’s article An Earnest Effort Falls Short from Anabaptist Witness 11.2. The author also has a piece in the same issue detailing his own perspective on the 2017 resolution discussed by Kampen. Note that Kampen comments on this response below. I want to respond to key matters John Kampen addresses in […]

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By Kebede Bekere, Desalegn Abebe Ejo Posted on November 21, 2024

God’s Reconciling Work in Development: The Development Theology and Practice of Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Ethiopia

Introduction The Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) is one of the Christian evangelical denominations in Ethiopia established by the North American Mennonite missionaries in 1951. The Mennonite missionaries entered Ethiopia to assist Ethiopia in the 1940s in reconstruction after the five-year occupation of the Italians. One of the strategies the missionaries used to engage in God’s […]

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By Anicka Fast Posted on August 7, 2024

The Spirit, Mission, Peace, and “Global Anabaptist Theology”

This post is from a series of responses to our “Mission and Peace in Ethiopia” issue that were first published on Facebook. I picked up my copy of the special issue of Anabaptist Witness, “Mission and Peace in Ethiopia” during a trip to the US in June (unfortunately, it was not possible to purchase it […]

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By Karl Stutzman Posted on

Peacebuilding in Our Beloved Historical Countries

In his article in Anabaptist Witness volume 11, no. 1, “Mission and Peace in Ethiopia” (April 2024), Yimenu Adimas Belay states, “Peacebuilding in Ethiopia needs to be considered a crucial element of every Christian community in order to transform the situation of our beloved historical country” (p. 23). I really love this expression. It not […]

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By H. J. Recinos Posted on March 4, 2024

Decolonial Faith

I wonder how often God sees us laughing about disobeying the foolish thoughts of white theologians that find nothing more than faults with the faith of invisible people in barrios they never visit.  I would like to know whether Jesus took the time to pray for the Boricua boy shot in the back last week […]

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