It was a full house, or church (or actually agriculture building) at Henderson Mennonite Heritage Park for the “Living the Anabaptist Story” presentation.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Mennonite immigrants’ arrival in the Henderson area in 1874, Henderson Mennonite Heritage Park will feature a reenactment of the Anabaptist story.
I have been reading Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in preparation for a review. It is easy to dismiss Anabaptists as wild-eyed iconoclasts of both physical space and theological heritage. In the end, that is all these people became to the magisterial Reformers simultaneously a nuisance and a foil to contrast their own supposed reasonability and catholicity. But historians do not simply repeat the narrative; we complicate the narrative, because human beings are complicated.
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