'There’s so many gay Hutterites': a rare voice begins pilgrimage for acceptance

Edit The Guardian 30 May 2016
With nearly 50,000 members living in more than 450 colonies in western Canada and the US, Kelly Hofer is pushing for change within the community. @ashifa_k. The Facebook post showed a photo of Kelly Hofer in a baggage-laden car, his older sister at the wheel ... Hofer was leaving behind his childhood home in the Hutterite community – a little known Anabaptist sect often likened to the Amish but with a selective embrace of technology ... ....

In a first, Trump PAC reaches out to Amish

Edit Deseret News 26 May 2016
Will the bearded, the bonneted, the barn-building Amish vote for the clean-shaven, combed-over, casino-building Donald Trump?. A new political action committee is betting $41,000 they will ... The Amish, an Anabaptist group with German roots who refer to themselves as “plain folk,” eschew many forms of technology, so the PAC will reach them mainly through newspaper ads and billboards, spending about $20,000 on each....

'We vote on our knees': The Amish vote's strange and scattered history enters the era ...

Edit Penn Live 23 May 2016
After winning re-election in 2004, George W. Bush took a trip to Amish Country.   ... This was business ... 2 ... Kerry's lead was so slim as to be within the margin of error.  ...   ...     ...   ... "That was really ironic because the Amish don't debate or spend much time talking about same-sex marriage or abortion," said Kraybill, an expert on Anabaptist groups, such as the Amish, and a senior fellow at Elizabethtown College ... ... ....

'The Story of Jesus Is the Story I'm Willing to Risk Being Wrong About'

Edit The Atlantic 15 May 2016
My life events have not been so fortunate, and the sudden death of my husband from a previously undiagnosed cancer was not a miracle; it was a blow, both to my life and to my Methodist-tinged-with-Anabaptist beliefs....

Bastrop recovery team donates last home after Hidden Pines fire

Edit Austin American Statesman 07 May 2016
Between the broken and burnt trees off Park Road 1C, a small green house was gifted to Erasto and Felicita Romero, who lost their home in the Hidden Pines Fire in October. The Romeros hadn’t even unpacked their boxes and moved in before a raging blaze destroyed their house six months ago ... 29, 2011 ... The MDS, a network of Anabaptist churches, built the first five homes (and will return this summer to paint, repair fences and clear lots)....

The first 'atheist' in Congress is 'emphatically Jewish'

Edit The Times Picayune 04 May 2016
The day after Jamie Raskin won his intensely competitive primary, a humanist political action committee that backed him sent a proud email blast. "If successful in the general election, Raskin will be the only open nontheist serving in the U.S. Congress," the email said ... The only problem? Raskin is Jewish. "One hundred percent Jewish." "Emphatically Jewish." ... He quotes from books he has read recently on Mormonism and Anabaptists ... . ... . ... . ... ....

Member Spotlight: New Covenant Christian School (Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce). When asked, 'What do you strive to see in your students?,' James and Anne Hubbard agreed that good values, integrity, having a shared Christian faith, demonstrating leadership and performing good services are what they both like to see. New Covenant Christian School is 35 years old and was originally founded in 1981 with only a handful of students and rooted in the Anabaptist denomination....

First seminary online master’s allows students to serve at home and learn at FPU (Fresno Pacific University)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Apr 2016
What makes this M.A., Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary's first online program, unique is its focus on Christian ministry from an Anabaptist perspective. Though 'Anabaptist' denominations are small in number, the principles of a high view of ... 'There's definitely an emerging group of young church leaders that resonate with Anabaptist values,' Ross said....

Mercer to Host International Conference on 'The Legacy of Walter Rauschenbusch' in April 2018 (Mercer University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Center for Theology and Public Life and McAfee School of Theology, in partnership with the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS) and the American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS), announce plans for an international scholarly conference in recognition of the centenary of Professor Water Rauschenbusch's death ... About the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies....

Mennonites to worship online as last British church is forced to close

Edit The Independent 18 Mar 2016
It is a pertinent question this weekend, when the Anabaptist group’s last remaining British congregation is set to hold its final ever Sunday service ... Read more ....

UK Mennonites end Sunday services after numbers dwindle

Edit The Guardian 16 Mar 2016
The Mennonites – part of the Anabaptist tradition dating back to the 16th century – are closely related to the Amish who are noted for their plain dress, simple life and rejection of modernity and technology ... Mennonites, along with all Anabaptists, are baptised or re-baptised as adults ... Anabaptist churches were largely driven out of England during the reign of Elizabeth I, only returning in the middle of the last century....

Keeney Peace Lecture (Bluffton University)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016
(Source. Bluffton University). 03/11/2016. Forum presentation to explore racism in the church. Author, blogger, activist and professor Dr. Drew G.I ... Changing the Way the Church Views Racism.' In the book, Hart explains how Anabaptist peacemaking has been compromised by assimilation into the white dominant culture ... -B- ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Agency says 7,000 volunteers helped with tornado cleanup, more funds still needed

Edit Penn Live 03 Mar 2016
In the week since a category EF2 tornado hit Salisbury Township, more than 7,000 volunteers poured in to help with the cleanup and rebuilding effort in this heavily Amish and agrarian corner of Lancaster County ... The organization, a volunteer network of Anabaptist churches that responds to crises and natural disasters across North American, says checks should be made payable to ... Federal disaster relief not coming to tornado zone. ....
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