Mennonite World Review

Articles : Anabaptist history

May 13 issue

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  Photo by Dale D. Gehman

  Holy rollers move Ohio church

  The old Sonnenberg Mennonite Church building of Kidron, Ohio, traveled half a mile down the road and took over a month to get there.

  The 1907 building, which hasn’t been in use since a new church was built in 1989, was lifted from its foundation to be part of Sonnenberg Village museum.

April 29 issue

• Historian makes timely visit

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — “A clock of the people.” That’s how Arthur Kroeger of Winnipeg, Man., author of the 2012 book Kroeger Clocks, sums up the clocks’ history and meaning in Mennonite history.

Dec. 24, 2012 issue

• Year in Review: Deaths in 2012

  A few of the most publicly-known deceased include:

Oct. 29, 2012 issue

• An American officer, Nazis and Menno Simons

  “If you can get out of the Soviet Union, find Christian Landes in Lautenbach, Germany,” Martha Rempel’s father, Jacob, advised his family when World War II broke out.

• EMM goes back to future

  Sometimes the best way forward is to go back to the beginning. Eastern Mennonite Missions President Nelson Okanya and board chair Joe Sherer did just that by spending 16 days visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia in September.

Sept. 3, 2012 issue

• Kansas pioneer children’s graves finally marked

  PEABODY, Kan. — During the mass immigration of Russian Mennonites to Kansas in 1874, tragedy swiftly struck a group of families.

Aug. 20, 2012 issue

• Modern ‘Martyrs Mirror’ Envisioned

  GOSHEN, Ind. — More than 35 people from around the world gathered at Goshen College Aug. 5-8 for a consultation on “Bearing Witness: A New Martyrs Mirror for the 21st Century?”

June 11, 2012 issue

• Faith descendants trace footsteps of first Anabaptists

  ZURICH, Switzerland — Walking along the bank of the Limmat River, Thioro Bananzoro pondered the challenges Anabaptists have turned into opportunities over the last five centuries.

May 14, 2012 issue

• Religion study: In a few counties, Mennonites and Amish stand out

  A new study of religion in the United States that lists congregational adherents by county shows that in at least six counties, a particular Mennonite or Amish group is the largest religious body.

Feb. 6, 2012 issue

• The uniqueness of Winnipeg

  On my desk is At the Forks: Mennonites in Winnipeg by Leo Driedger, published by Pandora Press, Kitchener, Ont., 2010, 473 pages, $29.95.

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