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Anabaptist Perspectives — 302 episodes
The Human Way God Gave Us the Bible. What About the Apocrypha? - Stephen Russell
The Rich Sacramental Theology of Persecuted Anabaptists (While Reformation Wars Raged) - Dean Taylor
An Anabaptist Defense of Dispensationalism (You Don’t Have to Be Zionist) - Julian Stoltzfus
Why I Left the Catholics, and How We Misunderstand Them - Stephen Russell
Early Church Texts Led Me to Adopt, then Reject, Infant Baptism - David Bercot
Shamanism, Drugs, Atheism, and Finding God in China - Nils
Communism’s “Utopia” Couldn’t Fill the Void. Neither Could Capitalism. - Saimir Braho
Why America is at War with Iran, the End Times, and the Quran - Chris Stoltzfus
Did God Authorize America to Wreak Vengeance on the World? - Marlin Sommers and Jaran Miller
Extend Your Tables into the Wilderness of the World - Bryant Martin
What the Early Church Taught on Sacraments (what the sources say) - Dean Taylor
40 Years Inside America’s Military-Industrial Complex (I Had Above “Top Secret” Clearance) - Vince Lewis
Mennonite Communion Anxiety: Causes and Solutions - Marlin Sommers and Verlon Miller
Jesus Didn’t Invent “Kingdom of God” in 30 A.D. What Did It Mean Before? - Paul Lamicela
Life, Death, Chemo, and Cancer - Arvin Martin
Anabaptists and the Sacraments: It’s Complicated! - Dean Taylor
I Grew Up in the North Korea of Europe - Saimir Braho
The Nicene Creed Guards the Bedrock of Our Faith - Stephen Russell
Islam Explained by a Former Muslim - John Ghanim
I Came to Christ. My Hippie Husband Was Indifferent - Heiko and Sabine Klien
I Grew Up in a Mennonite Church but Missed the Point - Sam Baer
Redeeming the World Instead of Preserving America - Bryant Martin
We Lost All Faith Under Communism. The Sermon on the Mount Brought Me Back - Zoltan Dohi
No, the Early Church Did Not Teach Penal Substitutionary Atonement - David Bercot
Walking Minefields Is My Ministry — Removing Landmines from Farmers’ Fields - Jared
Mennonite Confessions of Faith: 1921 vs 1963 vs 1964 - Edsel Burdge
I Thought Christianity Was for Weak Minded People - Christina Baer
New Age Spiritualist Encounters the Power of Jesus’ Name Over Hauntings and Spirits -Enda
Spiritual Warfare Is More Than Just Rebuking Satan - Rick Rhodes
I Grew Up as a Muslim in Yemen. This Is Why I Left Islam. - John Ghanim
War is Evil. Former B-52 Bomber Pilot Explains Why. - Vince Lewis
I Started a Business in Greece to Help Refugees Begin a New Life - Randall Graber
I Divorced My Husband, But God Rebuilt Our Marriage - Charlette Lewis
Facing Leviathan: Dealing With the Chaotic & Unpredictable - Kyle Stoltzfus
The 7 Articles that Defined the Peaceful Radical Reformation - Stephen Russell & Dean Taylor
Why Jesus Does Not Let Us Take (any) Oaths - Zach Johnson
Confessing Your Sin Will Bring Healing - Dwight Peavy
How I Became a Vietnam War Bomber Pilot and How Christ Redeemed Me - Vince Lewis, Ret. Lt. Col, USAF
Peter Called Lot Righteous. Why Don’t We? - Glenn Martin
28 Years as an Amish-Mennonite Pastor in Ireland - Dan Yoder
What to Do When We Disagree with an Early Church Father? - Kyle Stoltzfus
Yes, the Early Church Taught Penal Substitutionary Atonement - Dean Taylor
Rapture, Tribulation, Millennium: What Does Revelation Teach?
What Happened to the Anabaptists that Didn’t Leave Europe?
My Experience with Teacher Burnout (And How to Avoid It)
Why I Left the Army and What I’ve Learned Since Then
Gospel Allegiance Calls Us Beyond the Salvation Wars
Why I Could No Longer Serve My Anglican Parish in the UK
Do Anabaptists Affirm Early Church Creeds?
I Survived the Vietnam War, Now I’m Enlisted with Jesus
Do Reformation Debates Still Matter Today?
Our Beliefs Convinced Us to Join the Mennonites
The Bible Was Not Written in English. Why Is That Important?
I Was a New Age Gothic. Then I Saw Every Knee Bows to Jesus
Truthful, Peaceable, Subversive Allegiance to Jesus
What Is Addiction? How Can We Help Each Other?
Woke, Anti-woke, Critical Theory, and Historical Apologies
What Do Mennonites Mean by “Plainness”?
Healthy Responses to Those Suffering Among Us
The American Mennonite Story, 1730-1930
Calvinism, Unconditional Election & Free Will – Romans 9
I Was Born an Ethnic Christian in Iraq. Then I Found Christ
Why We’ve Misunderstood the Book of Romans Since 430 A.D.
Is Your Communication Worthy of Your Message?
Why I Crossed the English Channel to Find a Church
When God Trusts Us to Care for Mental Illness
Jesus’ Letters to the Churches Unlock Revelation
Conrad Grebel: Partier & Rising Star to Hunted Radical
How God Brought Me into a Church Community
Revelation, the (Missing) Temple, and Eden
I Walked On the Moon. Then I Met Christ - Charlie Duke, Apollo 16
The Forgotten 73% of the Bible
I Became a Social Worker to Serve the Church
Keeping the Faith in the Soviet Union and America
You Need to Surrender to God’s Will
How Did Indigenous Lands Become Mennonite Farms?
I Was Roman Catholic. Then I Became Amish.
The Overlap of Christian Stewardship and Environmentalism
Is the King James Version God’s Only Preserved Word?
Why Study If AI Can Find the Answer?
We Must Make Schools Work for All Children
How to Keep Busyness From Ruining Your Life
Jesus vs. the Politics of the Beast
Artificial Intelligence Is not “Intelligence”
Asking God for Spaghetti & Other Stories
In Guns We Trust
Trauma-Informed Churches
Developing As A Servant
Discovering Paul’s Kingdom Perspective
Five Stages in the Life of a Serving Leader
The What, Why, and How of Anabaptist Perspectives
Islam and the Birth of Christian “Just War”
Building Community Peace Through Personal Peace
What Happened to the Church in the Middle East?
The Pain of Moral & Ethical Failure
Viewing Theology Through the Biblical Storyline
How Can We Make a Difference Without Voting?
Were the Old Testament Saints Wicked?
Can I Lose My “Ticket to Heaven”?
The Forgotten Eastward Spread of the Gospel
The Commitment of Forgiveness
The Bible Around the World
Do Bad Churches Glorify God?
War, Politics, and the Patient Faithfulness of God’s People
How God Intends Churches to Exhibit His Glory
The Trinity, the Early Church, and Contemporary Critics
The Nation-State of Israel and the Church
How to Read Revelation and Avoid the Mark of the Beast
Surprising Things About the Mennonites
I Became an Anglican Priest. Here’s Why I Left.
Is “Mennonite” a Faith Culture or an Ethnic Culture?
The Historical Jesus and the Risen Christ
Microfinance, Evangelism, and Discipleship
How Do We Live Well in a World of AI?
How Can the Anabaptist Vision Flourish?
Why Care about Apologetics?
Peacemaking in Business
Serving Christ among Anglicans, Mennonites, & More
Joining and Leading an Anabaptist Church
Integrating into a New Church Community
Why I Read My Text 10 Times before Preaching
Redemption & the Impact of Abortion
Suffering, Growth, and Resurrection
Why the Church Educates
“The Earth Is the Lord’s” in Global Anabaptism
Should Churches Build a Culture?
Growing into Spiritual Maturity
What Kind of Community Do We Need?
Fostering Faith While Honoring Questions
Doubt is not Sin. It is Temptation.
Emphases in Anabaptist Views of Church
Two Views of Community
What is the Anabaptist Vision?
Dualism and the Birth of Anabaptism
Spiritual Value of Risk & Failure
Salvation as Participating with God
Responding to Abuse: Past and Present
What if My Friend is Abused?
Should We Celebrate Anabaptist Beginnings?
Union with Christ or Gospel of Sin Management?
Stepping into Scripture’s Stories
War Prayer by Mark Twain
Biblical Interpretation and Church Offense
Relearning the Kingdom through Humble Mission
How Empire and Colonialism Perverted Missions
Public Policy and Immigration
Bible Study and Knowing God
Redeemed from the Present Evil Age
Don't Let the Algorithms Trap You
Why Do Some Mennonites Use Only Half the Internet?
Software and the Heart: Internet Filtering and Accountability
Without a Complicated Interpretation?
An Update from Anabaptist Perspectives
Community, Disagreement, and Discussion
Are Anabaptists the Only Kingdom Christians?
Getting Ready to Share from Scripture
Tragedy in Church History: Responding to Your Questions
Gaining and Sustaining a Vision for Church Planting
Negotiating with One's Own Culture
The Clarity of Scripture
Why We Started Anabaptist Perspectives and What We’ve Learned
Monks, Nuns and the Church
The Feminine Cloud of Witnesses
The Inside-out Sandwich: The Bible and Commentaries
Megachurches, Academia, and Christian Vitality
Our Experience among the Homeless
How I Came to Radical Kingdom Economics
How Should We Then Money?
Usury and the Historic Church
Usury, Socialism, and Laying Up Treasures in Heaven
Money in the Early Anabaptist Movement
Business That Serves the Kingdom
Foundations for a Christian Economic Vision
The Myth of the Valley Forge Prayer - Sample Chapter 27
The Other Triangle of Evil - Sample Chapter 9
What It Means to Trust - Sample Chapter 1
#GivingTuesday - An Update from our Founders
Managers in God's Household: Stewardship in Fresh Perspective
Making Use of Bible Translations
Anabaptists and the “Principalities and Powers”
Serving Those Who Have Experienced Trauma
The Man Who Stayed Catholic: Erasmus
Planting a Church in Brooklyn
Ministering to International Scholars
The Outcome I Want for my Students
What I Learned Advising Anabaptist Businesses
Politically Pro Life?
Questions From Our Audience
Does Academia Cause Loss of Faith?
Mourning the World’s Justice: A Response to the Conviction of Derek Chauvin
What I Learned from the Chinese Church
Christian Missions Questioned: A Discussion
Heritage: A Legacy Larger than Oneself
Why I am Studying Hebrew in Cambridge
Approaching the Great Tradition
How Serving in China Brought Me to Anabaptism
What is the Great Tradition?
Nurturing a Culture that Inspires Christian Growth
Is Jesus President?
Discipleship and the Life of the Mind
Christendom and the Anabaptist Genius
Studying the Bible With the Unchurched
Being a Science Ambassador to my Church (Part Two)
Being a Science Ambassador to my Church (Part One)
Lessons from Church History
Doubting Anabaptism
Investing in Your Church
Christian Hospitality: Part Two
Christian Hospitality: Part One
Justin Martyr: An Introduction
Community Service Through EMS
Fragmented Foundations
Discernment From the Inside Out
The Humanities and Cultural Engagement
What I Learned Living in Jerusalem
Stories From Community Development
Community Development: How Can We Help the Impoverished?
An Anabaptist View of Church
Tertullian: An Introduction
Helping Refugees in Greece
Starting a School in Thailand
Gelassenheit: Humble Yieldedness
Fundamentalism and Its Aftermath: Q&A Session
Fundamentalism and Its Aftermath
I Changed My Mind About Voting
Kingdom Responsibility and Politics
Mennonite Nazis – a Lecture
My Story of Redemption
The Importance of the Kingdom of God
The Story of Anabaptist Perspectives
Practice of Community in the Early Anabaptist Movement
Apostasy of the 1960s
Why Study Biblical Languages?
The Prince of Peace
Factories, Gardens, Giving, Guns: A COVID-19 Economy and Stewardship - Anabaptist Perspectives
Exiting the Air Force
The World at Our Doorstep
Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
Loving Our Neighbors Through Sewing
Anabaptists and Muslims: What Can We Learn?
Ministry in Small Towns: Part 2
Loving Our Neighbors During The Pandemic Crisis
Ministry In Small Towns: Part 1
Racial Reconciliation in the Church
Caring for those who Serve Cross-Culturally
Fundamentalism
Jesus, a Refugee
The Urban Challenge
Academics in the Early Anabaptist Movement
Dealing with Burnout Part 2
Dealing with Burnout Part 1
A Vision for Urban Ministry
Being Welcomed by the Anabaptist Community
American Mennonites and Racial Reconciliation
An Anabaptist View of Salvation
Why Study Church History? A Discussion
Nationalism and the Kingdom of God
Undoing Antioch: On Ethnic Specific Churches
#GivingTuesday Announcement
Translating the Bible for the Unreached
Should I Vote?
Conservative Anabaptist Young Adult: A Profile
Against Prejudice
History of the Apocrypha in the Biblical Canon
The Apocrypha
A Vision for Indigenous Church Planting in North America
Nonresistance in Historical Anabaptism
The Septuagint
Why Do Bible Translation?
Helping Women Who Have Survived Slavery
Seeing God While Studying Plant Pathology
The Theology of Martyrdom
I Was Once a Jehovah's Witness
A Consistent Ethic of Life
Practical Advice on Utilizing Technology - Panel Discussion Part 2
Practical Advice on Utilizing Technology -- Panel Discussion Part 1
Nonresistance in the Old Testament
Welcoming Seekers Part 2
Welcoming Seekers Part 1
The Significance of Adoption
The Will of God as a Way of Life
Making Disciples in the City
Keeshon's Story
The American Revolution and the Kingdom of God
Why We Haven't Been Releasing Weekly Episodes
Ideal Resistance
Martyrdom of Weynken
Sending is for Churches
From Street Gang Member To Anabaptist Pastor
The Technology Habits of Mennonites
Losing Rachel
Vulnerability In Missions
The Meaning and Purpose of Higher Education
What If? Practical Questions about Nonresistance
Would You Die?
What is a Christian Mind?
Why I am a Conservative Mennonite
Why I am a Mennonite
Why I am a Christian
Why I Believe in God
Planting Churches In Los Angeles
Doing Business Differently