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Restoring Our Family to Wholeness: Seeking a Common Witness
A Common Statement of Confession, Gratitude and Commitment Mennonite World Conference appointed several people to participate in an ongoing ecumenical dialogue with the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). This is one of the state churches who in the 1500s persecuted the early Anabaptists in Europe. Together, this group of theologians from WRCR and MWC…
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Living the Christian Life in Today’s World: Adventists and Mennonites in Conversation, 2011-2012
A Conversation between Mennonite World Conference and the Seventh-day Adventist Church 2011-2012 In 2011 and 2012, representatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and of the Mennonite World Conference met together for official conversations. In many respects the meetings proved to be a journey of mutual discovery. Background Mennonites and Adventists have had frequent…
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Mennonite Quarterly Review 95
Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the ChurchLutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversations 2012–2017Report of the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Dialogue Commission On behalf of The Lutheran World FederationMennonite World ConferencePontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity The Mennonite Quarterly Review 95 (January 2021) In This IssueBaptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church: Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman…
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Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church
Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversations 2012–2017 It was with the twin goals of increasing mutual understanding and helping one another grow in faithfulness to Jesus Christ that a trilateral dialogue took place between Lutherans, Mennonites and Roman Catholics, from 2012 to 2017. Over the course of the five year period, the dialogue followed the well-established interchurch…
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A Mennonite and Catholic Contribution to the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence
INTRODUCTION An international dialogue between Catholics and Mennonites took place between 1998 and 2003, beginning with the theme “Toward a Healing of Memories”, and concluding with a report entitled Called Together to be Peacemakers (CTBP). In the hope that, on the basis of that dialogue, Catholics and Mennonites may together offer suggestions for the World…
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Global Church Village
At the Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Indonesia Jessica is organizing the Global Church Village. This is a place where you can create exhibits from your Anabaptist church. Come by and visit to see performances, incredible art, and just have a place to be and charge your phone. We are a church of many cultures!…
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Called Together to be Peacemakers
Report of the International Dialogue between the Catholic Church and Mennonite World Conference 1998 – 2003
