Institute of Mennonite Studies

11/19/2025

What does “nonconformity” look like for Mennonites?



https://youtu.be/wd-kVtKju6I?si=sNaElBlLjyLB5qvv

11/14/2025

“My roommate spent my rent money on a Taylor Swift vinyl??”

11/13/2025

IMS is proud to support Mennonite Action through the publication of Courage to Enter the Song: A Mennonite Action Guide to Grassroots Organizing. Here Nick Martin and Jonathan Smucker unbox the first shipment at a recent MA leaders meeting. Copies will be available for purchase at stops on the MA tour (link below) and online soon.

11/11/2025

Jesus is the bomb diggity dot com 😎

11/10/2025

Check out episode two of Seminary Reacts, featuring Alicia Maldonado-Zahra, scholar activist at Goshen College!

You can access the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seminary-reacts/id1850787524?i=1000736164142

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sAwjW02oggSiwm8FVX6IR?si=FE5ko-y6QAW_29I6dV43gw

Seminary Reacts asks professors and scholars to respond to questions and stories posted on Reddit about Christianity, religion, and what it means to be Menno...

11/07/2025

What other internet slang should we quiz them on?

11/05/2025

What’s behind our urge to swear? Learn more about this and other topics on the first episode of Seminary Reacts!

11/03/2025

What’s your experience with communion wafers? First episode of Seminary Reacts now on YouTube and Spotify!

11/01/2025

Do professors know these commonly used Reddit words? Let’s find out!

10/31/2025

Introducing a new podcast where seminary professors react to stories and questions found on Reddit! New episodes out each Monday.

01/23/2025

Maxwell Kennel includes IMS publication "Resistance: Confronting Violence, Power, and Abuse within Peace Churches" in a short list of key books in Anabaptist and Mennonite studies.

Pick up a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Confronting-Violence-within-Churches/dp/0936273585/

By Maxwell Kennel Anabaptist and Mennonite studies is a broad interdisciplinary conversation with distinct subfields and institutions with differing

01/20/2025

Need something to keep your mind off today's happenings? How about reading Andrea Cramer's article "The work of welcome in the wake of war: The story of Neighbor to Neighbor" in the latest issue of Vision?

The work of welcome in the wake of war The story of Neighbor to Neighbor Authors Andrea Cramer Neighbor to Neighbor Keywords: Muhammad Muheisen, refugees, asylum seekers, postflight, peacemaking, Afghanistan Abstract After growing up in a Christian community where support for the US military and its...