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Evangelical Anabaptist. Catholic Anabaptist. Pentecostal Anabaptist. I have used all these phrases in different contexts to explain my identity as a follower of Christ. In those sentences, the first word…
V I E W P O I N T Let me be honest with you: I don’t want my kids to be evangelical Christians when they grow up. It was…
V I E W P O I N T Recently I was involved in a group reading through The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersections of Anabaptism and Evangelicalism. It…
The Church of Us vs. Them: Freedom From a Faith That Feeds on Making Enemies David E. Fitch Brazos Review by Gil Dueck Why this book? Like many others, I…
Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal: Why the Church Should be all Three Gordon T. Smith InterVarsity Review by Cherie Bright What is the subject? Evangelical churches claim that the church is…
Evangelical congregations in Canada hey have different styles and locations: from white, clapboard Baptist churches in rural New Brunswick, to Chinese Alliance churches in downtown Toronto, Aboriginal Pentecostal churches in…
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Prophetic Evangelicals: Envisioning a Just and Peaceable Kingdom
by ContributorClarion call to gospel-motivated activism is timely Prophetic Evangelicals: Envisioning a Just and Peaceable Kingdom Bruce Benson, Malinda Berry, Peter Heltzel, eds. Prophetic Evangelicals: Envisioning a Just and Peaceable Kingdom…
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Read the label: We are evangelical Anabaptists
by Willy ReimerThere’s a growing surge of interest in defining who we are as a denomination – in what we believe and what the implications of those core beliefs are. This is a healthy exercise, even though it makes us uncomfortable at times. We often prefer ignorance to clarity, as ignorance can create an aura of unity, while clarity may open the door for disagreement.
Do Mennonites really belong? Asked to evaluate the immense growth of the evangelical church worldwide, John Stott had a three-word answer: “growth without depth.” The elder Christian statesman, who has…