The author is a young Mennonite from Pennsylvania who grew up in the rich cultural traditions but who recently spent a year among U.K. Anabaptists who are a more convinced, less culturally-embedded crowd. This is her reflections on the two approaches and what they mean to each other.
Quote: My time in the UK made me more aware of the ways in which our Mennonite traditions have become empty and have failed to helpfully communicate a Jesus-centred Anabaptist faith. I also became very conscious of the fact that our particular cultural traditions are just that – particular and cultural. The Pennsylvania Mennonite way of being Anabaptist is not the only way of being Anabaptist, and to assume so would be to tragically limit a movement that has the ability to move across and beyond culture and tradition.
