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Good to see you blogging again.
I wonder, from this post, how much experience you have of non-US and/or Non-historic-anabaptist-denomination-anabaptism you have? I as because much of what you write here simply does not ring true for me. That is, it gives an incomplete picture, at best.
Nevertheless, if the label doesn't work for you, there's nothing sacred about it. I've spoken to a couple of disgruntled Mennonites who said that if they lived in the UK they would be happier identifying as anabaptist. I presume the same is true for other countries, or for groups that are anabaptistic, but not direct descendants (e.g. Quakers and co.).
But I'm rambling now! :-)
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As you guessed, I have little or no experience with Anabaptists outside the United States. In my short entourage of the Anabaptist blogosphere, I have been immensely encouraged by the people who are making the label work for them.
On this blog, I may or may not stick with trying to work with the label. I think it's sick that Americans have reduced Anabaptism to a denomination. So in a way it's the denomination I'm fighting as well as the unpleasant stereotypes I outlined in my post.
Kind people like you encourage me to "press on" in ecumenical effort and postmodern radicalness.
2 years ago
The problem may be: not that we know too little of the A's in other areas, but that we know too much.