Mennonite but not Anabaptist

The members of a rural Mennonite congregation stared at me with a peaceful but quizzical silence. They were gracious and hospitable people and were giving me the benefit of the doubt. Drawing from an obscure line by Stanley Hauerwas, I had suggested that “infant baptism can only be practiced with integrity by communities like the Mennonites" ...

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• Mennonite but not Anabaptist
• Free to be different
• The four renderings
• Musings on baptism

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• In with the old
• Warning: church ahead

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