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Anabaptist Perspectives — 302 episodes

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1

The Human Way God Gave Us the Bible. What About the Apocrypha? - Stephen Russell

2

The Rich Sacramental Theology of Persecuted Anabaptists (While Reformation Wars Raged) - Dean Taylor

3

An Anabaptist Defense of Dispensationalism (You Don’t Have to Be Zionist) - Julian Stoltzfus

4

Why I Left the Catholics, and How We Misunderstand Them - Stephen Russell

5

Early Church Texts Led Me to Adopt, then Reject, Infant Baptism - David Bercot

6

Shamanism, Drugs, Atheism, and Finding God in China - Nils

7

Communism’s “Utopia” Couldn’t Fill the Void. Neither Could Capitalism. - Saimir Braho

8

Why America is at War with Iran, the End Times, and the Quran - Chris Stoltzfus

9

Did God Authorize America to Wreak Vengeance on the World? - Marlin Sommers and Jaran Miller

10

Extend Your Tables into the Wilderness of the World - Bryant Martin

11

What the Early Church Taught on Sacraments (what the sources say) - Dean Taylor

12

40 Years Inside America’s Military-Industrial Complex (I Had Above “Top Secret” Clearance) - Vince Lewis

13

Mennonite Communion Anxiety: Causes and Solutions - Marlin Sommers and Verlon Miller

14

Jesus Didn’t Invent “Kingdom of God” in 30 A.D. What Did It Mean Before? - Paul Lamicela

15

Life, Death, Chemo, and Cancer - Arvin Martin

16

Anabaptists and the Sacraments: It’s Complicated! - Dean Taylor

17

I Grew Up in the North Korea of Europe - Saimir Braho

18

The Nicene Creed Guards the Bedrock of Our Faith - Stephen Russell

19

Islam Explained by a Former Muslim - John Ghanim

20

I Came to Christ. My Hippie Husband Was Indifferent - Heiko and Sabine Klien

21

I Grew Up in a Mennonite Church but Missed the Point - Sam Baer

22

Redeeming the World Instead of Preserving America - Bryant Martin

23

We Lost All Faith Under Communism. The Sermon on the Mount Brought Me Back - Zoltan Dohi

24

No, the Early Church Did Not Teach Penal Substitutionary Atonement - David Bercot

25

Walking Minefields Is My Ministry — Removing Landmines from Farmers’ Fields - Jared

26

Mennonite Confessions of Faith: 1921 vs 1963 vs 1964 - Edsel Burdge

27

I Thought Christianity Was for Weak Minded People - Christina Baer

28

New Age Spiritualist Encounters the Power of Jesus’ Name Over Hauntings and Spirits -Enda

29

Spiritual Warfare Is More Than Just Rebuking Satan - Rick Rhodes

30

I Grew Up as a Muslim in Yemen. This Is Why I Left Islam. - John Ghanim

31

War is Evil. Former B-52 Bomber Pilot Explains Why. - Vince Lewis

32

I Started a Business in Greece to Help Refugees Begin a New Life - Randall Graber

33

I Divorced My Husband, But God Rebuilt Our Marriage - Charlette Lewis

34

Facing Leviathan: Dealing With the Chaotic & Unpredictable - Kyle Stoltzfus

35

The 7 Articles that Defined the Peaceful Radical Reformation - Stephen Russell & Dean Taylor

36

Why Jesus Does Not Let Us Take (any) Oaths - Zach Johnson

37

Confessing Your Sin Will Bring Healing - Dwight Peavy

38

How I Became a Vietnam War Bomber Pilot and How Christ Redeemed Me - Vince Lewis, Ret. Lt. Col, USAF

39

Peter Called Lot Righteous. Why Don’t We? - Glenn Martin

40

28 Years as an Amish-Mennonite Pastor in Ireland - Dan Yoder

41

What to Do When We Disagree with an Early Church Father? - Kyle Stoltzfus

42

Yes, the Early Church Taught Penal Substitutionary Atonement - Dean Taylor

43

Rapture, Tribulation, Millennium: What Does Revelation Teach?

44

What Happened to the Anabaptists that Didn’t Leave Europe?

45

My Experience with Teacher Burnout (And How to Avoid It)

46

Why I Left the Army and What I’ve Learned Since Then

47

Gospel Allegiance Calls Us Beyond the Salvation Wars

48

Why I Could No Longer Serve My Anglican Parish in the UK

49

Do Anabaptists Affirm Early Church Creeds?

50

I Survived the Vietnam War, Now I’m Enlisted with Jesus

51

Do Reformation Debates Still Matter Today?

52

Our Beliefs Convinced Us to Join the Mennonites

53

The Bible Was Not Written in English. Why Is That Important?

54

I Was a New Age Gothic. Then I Saw Every Knee Bows to Jesus

55

Truthful, Peaceable, Subversive Allegiance to Jesus

56

What Is Addiction? How Can We Help Each Other?

57

Woke, Anti-woke, Critical Theory, and Historical Apologies

58

What Do Mennonites Mean by “Plainness”?

59

Healthy Responses to Those Suffering Among Us

60

The American Mennonite Story, 1730-1930

61

Calvinism, Unconditional Election & Free Will – Romans 9

62

I Was Born an Ethnic Christian in Iraq. Then I Found Christ

63

Why We’ve Misunderstood the Book of Romans Since 430 A.D.

64

Is Your Communication Worthy of Your Message?

65

Why I Crossed the English Channel to Find a Church

66

When God Trusts Us to Care for Mental Illness

67

Jesus’ Letters to the Churches Unlock Revelation

68

Conrad Grebel: Partier & Rising Star to Hunted Radical

69

How God Brought Me into a Church Community

70

Revelation, the (Missing) Temple, and Eden

71

I Walked On the Moon. Then I Met Christ - Charlie Duke, Apollo 16

72

The Forgotten 73% of the Bible

73

I Became a Social Worker to Serve the Church

74

Keeping the Faith in the Soviet Union and America

75

You Need to Surrender to God’s Will

76

How Did Indigenous Lands Become Mennonite Farms?

77

I Was Roman Catholic. Then I Became Amish.

78

The Overlap of Christian Stewardship and Environmentalism

79

Is the King James Version God’s Only Preserved Word?

80

Why Study If AI Can Find the Answer?

81

We Must Make Schools Work for All Children

82

How to Keep Busyness From Ruining Your Life

83

Jesus vs. the Politics of the Beast

84

Artificial Intelligence Is not “Intelligence”

85

Asking God for Spaghetti & Other Stories

86

In Guns We Trust

87

Trauma-Informed Churches

88

Developing As A Servant

89

Discovering Paul’s Kingdom Perspective

90

Five Stages in the Life of a Serving Leader

91

The What, Why, and How of Anabaptist Perspectives

92

Islam and the Birth of Christian “Just War”

93

Building Community Peace Through Personal Peace

94

What Happened to the Church in the Middle East?

95

The Pain of Moral & Ethical Failure

96

Viewing Theology Through the Biblical Storyline

97

How Can We Make a Difference Without Voting?

98

Were the Old Testament Saints Wicked?

99

Can I Lose My “Ticket to Heaven”?

100

The Forgotten Eastward Spread of the Gospel

101

The Commitment of Forgiveness

102

The Bible Around the World

103

Do Bad Churches Glorify God?

104

War, Politics, and the Patient Faithfulness of God’s People

105

How God Intends Churches to Exhibit His Glory

106

The Trinity, the Early Church, and Contemporary Critics

107

The Nation-State of Israel and the Church

108

How to Read Revelation and Avoid the Mark of the Beast

109

Surprising Things About the Mennonites

110

I Became an Anglican Priest. Here’s Why I Left.

111

Is “Mennonite” a Faith Culture or an Ethnic Culture?

112

The Historical Jesus and the Risen Christ

113

Microfinance, Evangelism, and Discipleship

114

How Do We Live Well in a World of AI?

115

How Can the Anabaptist Vision Flourish?

116

Why Care about Apologetics?

117

Peacemaking in Business

118

Serving Christ among Anglicans, Mennonites, & More

119

Joining and Leading an Anabaptist Church

120

Integrating into a New Church Community

121

Why I Read My Text 10 Times before Preaching

122

Redemption & the Impact of Abortion

123

Suffering, Growth, and Resurrection

124

Why the Church Educates

125

“The Earth Is the Lord’s” in Global Anabaptism

126

Should Churches Build a Culture?

127

Growing into Spiritual Maturity

128

What Kind of Community Do We Need?

129

Fostering Faith While Honoring Questions

130

Doubt is not Sin. It is Temptation.

131

Emphases in Anabaptist Views of Church

132

Two Views of Community

133

What is the Anabaptist Vision?

134

Dualism and the Birth of Anabaptism

135

Spiritual Value of Risk & Failure

136

Salvation as Participating with God

137

Responding to Abuse: Past and Present

138

What if My Friend is Abused?

139

Should We Celebrate Anabaptist Beginnings?

140

Union with Christ or Gospel of Sin Management?

141

Stepping into Scripture’s Stories

142

War Prayer by Mark Twain

143

Biblical Interpretation and Church Offense

144

Relearning the Kingdom through Humble Mission

145

How Empire and Colonialism Perverted Missions

146

Public Policy and Immigration

147

Bible Study and Knowing God

148

Redeemed from the Present Evil Age

149

Don't Let the Algorithms Trap You

150

Why Do Some Mennonites Use Only Half the Internet?

151

Software and the Heart: Internet Filtering and Accountability

152

Without a Complicated Interpretation?

153

An Update from Anabaptist Perspectives

154

Community, Disagreement, and Discussion

155

Are Anabaptists the Only Kingdom Christians?

156

Getting Ready to Share from Scripture

157

Tragedy in Church History: Responding to Your Questions

158

Gaining and Sustaining a Vision for Church Planting

159

Negotiating with One's Own Culture

160

The Clarity of Scripture

161

Why We Started Anabaptist Perspectives and What We’ve Learned

162

Monks, Nuns and the Church

163

The Feminine Cloud of Witnesses

164

The Inside-out Sandwich: The Bible and Commentaries

165

Megachurches, Academia, and Christian Vitality

166

Our Experience among the Homeless

167

How I Came to Radical Kingdom Economics

168

How Should We Then Money?

169

Usury and the Historic Church

170

Usury, Socialism, and Laying Up Treasures in Heaven

171

Money in the Early Anabaptist Movement

172

Business That Serves the Kingdom

173

Foundations for a Christian Economic Vision

174

The Myth of the Valley Forge Prayer - Sample Chapter 27

175

The Other Triangle of Evil - Sample Chapter 9

176

What It Means to Trust - Sample Chapter 1

177

#GivingTuesday - An Update from our Founders

178

Managers in God's Household: Stewardship in Fresh Perspective

179

Making Use of Bible Translations

180

Anabaptists and the “Principalities and Powers”

181

Serving Those Who Have Experienced Trauma

182

The Man Who Stayed Catholic: Erasmus

183

Planting a Church in Brooklyn

184

Ministering to International Scholars

185

The Outcome I Want for my Students

186

What I Learned Advising Anabaptist Businesses

187

Politically Pro Life?

188

Questions From Our Audience

189

Does Academia Cause Loss of Faith?

190

Mourning the World’s Justice: A Response to the Conviction of Derek Chauvin

191

What I Learned from the Chinese Church

192

Christian Missions Questioned: A Discussion

193

Heritage: A Legacy Larger than Oneself

194

Why I am Studying Hebrew in Cambridge

195

Approaching the Great Tradition

196

How Serving in China Brought Me to Anabaptism

197

What is the Great Tradition?

198

Nurturing a Culture that Inspires Christian Growth

199

Is Jesus President?

200

Discipleship and the Life of the Mind

201

Christendom and the Anabaptist Genius

202

Studying the Bible With the Unchurched

203

Being a Science Ambassador to my Church (Part Two)

204

Being a Science Ambassador to my Church (Part One)

205

Lessons from Church History

206

Doubting Anabaptism

207

Investing in Your Church

208

Christian Hospitality: Part Two

209

Christian Hospitality: Part One

210

Justin Martyr: An Introduction

211

Community Service Through EMS

212

Fragmented Foundations

213

Discernment From the Inside Out

214

The Humanities and Cultural Engagement

215

What I Learned Living in Jerusalem

216

Stories From Community Development

217

Community Development: How Can We Help the Impoverished?

218

An Anabaptist View of Church

219

Tertullian: An Introduction

220

Helping Refugees in Greece

221

Starting a School in Thailand

222

Gelassenheit: Humble Yieldedness

223

Fundamentalism and Its Aftermath: Q&A Session

224

Fundamentalism and Its Aftermath

225

I Changed My Mind About Voting

226

Kingdom Responsibility and Politics

227

Mennonite Nazis – a Lecture

228

My Story of Redemption

229

The Importance of the Kingdom of God

230

The Story of Anabaptist Perspectives

231

Practice of Community in the Early Anabaptist Movement

232

Apostasy of the 1960s

233

Why Study Biblical Languages?

234

The Prince of Peace

235

Factories, Gardens, Giving, Guns: A COVID-19 Economy and Stewardship - Anabaptist Perspectives

236

Exiting the Air Force

237

The World at Our Doorstep

238

Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City

239

Loving Our Neighbors Through Sewing

240

Anabaptists and Muslims: What Can We Learn?

241

Ministry in Small Towns: Part 2

242

Loving Our Neighbors During The Pandemic Crisis

243

Ministry In Small Towns: Part 1

244

Racial Reconciliation in the Church

245

Caring for those who Serve Cross-Culturally

246

Fundamentalism

247

Jesus, a Refugee

248

The Urban Challenge

249

Academics in the Early Anabaptist Movement

250

Dealing with Burnout Part 2

251

Dealing with Burnout Part 1

252

A Vision for Urban Ministry

253

Being Welcomed by the Anabaptist Community

254

American Mennonites and Racial Reconciliation

255

An Anabaptist View of Salvation

256

Why Study Church History? A Discussion

257

Nationalism and the Kingdom of God

258

Undoing Antioch: On Ethnic Specific Churches

259

#GivingTuesday Announcement

260

Translating the Bible for the Unreached

261

Should I Vote?

262

Conservative Anabaptist Young Adult: A Profile

263

Against Prejudice

264

History of the Apocrypha in the Biblical Canon

265

The Apocrypha

266

A Vision for Indigenous Church Planting in North America

267

Nonresistance in Historical Anabaptism

268

The Septuagint

269

Why Do Bible Translation?

270

Helping Women Who Have Survived Slavery

271

Seeing God While Studying Plant Pathology

272

The Theology of Martyrdom

273

I Was Once a Jehovah's Witness

274

A Consistent Ethic of Life

275

Practical Advice on Utilizing Technology - Panel Discussion Part 2

276

Practical Advice on Utilizing Technology -- Panel Discussion Part 1

277

Nonresistance in the Old Testament

278

Welcoming Seekers Part 2

279

Welcoming Seekers Part 1

280

The Significance of Adoption

281

The Will of God as a Way of Life

282

Making Disciples in the City

283

Keeshon's Story

284

The American Revolution and the Kingdom of God

285

Why We Haven't Been Releasing Weekly Episodes

286

Ideal Resistance

287

Martyrdom of Weynken

288

Sending is for Churches

289

From Street Gang Member To Anabaptist Pastor

290

The Technology Habits of Mennonites

291

Losing Rachel

292

Vulnerability In Missions

293

The Meaning and Purpose of Higher Education

294

What If? Practical Questions about Nonresistance

295

Would You Die?

296

What is a Christian Mind?

297

Why I am a Conservative Mennonite

298

Why I am a Mennonite

299

Why I am a Christian

300

Why I Believe in God

301

Planting Churches In Los Angeles

302

Doing Business Differently