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Cultural Exchange and Applied Anabaptism: A Journey From Indonesia to the USA

We, as Anabaptists, should place Jesus Christ at the center of our faith, community at the center of our lives, and reconciliation at the center of our work.1 As part of the Anabaptist community in Indonesia, I want to be able to implement these three key principles in my own life, though it is often […]

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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

I enjoy music, and I love Boyz II Men. Of their songs, one of my favorites is “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”. Even when we’re excited about the future, it can be difficult to let go of the past. This was my experience as a participant in the discipleship training program of […]

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Hispanic Heritage Month

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz explains that one of the most significant aspect of the human condition is that “we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life, but end in having lived only one.” For me, this one life began unfolding on Home Street in the South Bronx. My immigrant parents, […]

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Book review by Aaron Griffith

Steven P. Miller, “The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years”

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Reflection piece by Chad Martin

That You May Know One Another

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Home Coming

Today we are featuring a poem from our regular contributer, Harold Recinos. When asked what compelled him to write this poem and share it with Anabaptist Witness, Harold responded with the following. – Ed. The Central American immigrant families with whom I engage in ministry come to the United States motivated by a desperate flight […]

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Reflection piece by Kaylene Derksen

An Empty Bowl

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Book review by Tom Airey

Rufus Burrow Jr., “A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement”

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Book review by Rachel Epp Miller

Deirdre Cornell, “Jesus Was a Migrant”

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Book review by Wes Howard-Brook

Steve Heinrichs, ed., “Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land, Justice, and Life Together

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