Category: Sunday School

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation.   And our Sunday school class has come to an end. In many ways, I think I have saved both the best and the worst for last. I think I could argue that this is also the most important. If I were to ever write a book [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation.   Today we will be looking at the Mennonites in the Amsterdam region from 1700 – 1850. We will continue looking at their different involvement in the Enlightenment. I hope by now that you have seen that a number of typical stereotypes about Mennonites are thwarted by [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation.   These next two weeks, we will be looking, at what I find the most fascinating part of Anabaptist history – Mennonites, the Enlightenment, and life in Amsterdam and the surrounding area. I would love to spend a month on this topic, but this Sunday school class [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation. This morning I want to trace the Mennonite influence and development in one of the most important towns in North Germany – Hamburg. Like most stories of the Mennonites, this is a rather complicated story because the church and the Mennonites were actually located in Altona. Today [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation. This morning I want to trace the Mennonite influence and development in one of the most important towns in North Germany – Hamburg. Like most stories of the Mennonites, this is a rather complicated story because the church and the Mennonites were actually located in Altona. Today [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation. Today we will be looking at the rise of Mennonitism. In many ways, you could say we will be looking at why things are why they are today. For many of the same problems which plagued the earliest followers of Menno, still plague us today. And we [...]

  Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation. For the most part, the first six weeks have centered on the south. These are the areas in which we Mennonites are more familiar. The Anabaptist groups which arose here tended to be the more peaceful kind, the quiet in the land, these are the groups [...]

  Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation. Perhaps my favorite city which I visited was Bern. It is the capital of Switzerland and yet it remains quite small. The city has only about 140,000 people that live there. It is stunning and the surrounding towns are even more beautiful. It is easy to [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation.   Let's recap a little bit.   So far we have looked at the beginnings of the Reformation. We have seen that the early 16th century was like a time bomb of social unrest. People everywhere, particularly the peasants, were fed up with the injustices of their [...]

Disclaimer: These are unedited notes, not a presentation.   Anabaptism in Southern Germany/Austria: The Many Forms of Anabaptism (Ryan's experiences in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Strasbourg, and Austria)   Today I have the impossible task of trying to outline the Anabaptist activities in south Germany, Austria, and Moravia from 1525-1535. There is just a crazy amount of [...]