On Jan. 21, we Mennonites — along with the Amish, Hutterites, Brethren in Christ, and others — celebrated our 500th birthday.

“This is one small baptism for Menno,” said Blaurock. “One giant leap for Mennokind.” And that was that. We all turned off our TVs and switched to the Smothers Brothers or whatever. However, the story ...

To baptize the infant or not to baptize the infant? The answer to the question of infant baptism could depend on your denominational position, along with your interpretation of the Bible. Like many ...

A young woman has told how she has fled the Amish community and had her haircut and wore a pair of jeans for the first time. Alisha Green, 26, was a generational member of the Amish and Mennonite ...

Anabaptists believed baptism should instead be a dictate of ... Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. When Amish groups began arriving in the county in the early part of the ...

The Anabaptists, who later split into several sub-groups such as the Amish and Mennonites, were persecuted for their rejection of infant baptism, military service and their refusal to swear an ...