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The Armchair Anabaptist podcast tackles big-picture theological questions through accessible, thoughtful conversations with authors, pastors, theologians, and other thinkers inside and outside of the Anabaptist tradition. Each season examines one main idea through the lenses of Scripture, history, theology, and personal reflections. We hope listeners will take their theology up, out of their armchair, and into the real world.

Season 2: Community, S2E11 Evangelical Mennonite Conference Season 2: Community, S2E11 Evangelical Mennonite Conference

The Ban

The ban is that thing in the Anabaptist closet. Stories abound of this severe and condemnatory method of church discipline—its use and mostly its misuse. But what was it that Anabaptists intended and is there a redemptive way to employ the ban?  

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Season 2: Community, S2E10 Evangelical Mennonite Conference Season 2: Community, S2E10 Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Kleine Gemeinde

The Anabaptist suspicion of top-down leadership remains alive and well in EMC churches, but does congregational governance actually work, and if not, why not and what are the alternatives? If leaders shouldn’t have or don’t accept power, where does the power go?

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Season 2: Community, S2Ep4 Evangelical Mennonite Conference Season 2: Community, S2Ep4 Evangelical Mennonite Conference

At the End

Having looked at the beginning, Jesse and Andrew now ask if you can find guidelines for community in Revelation. Does God’s plan or design for how things end, provide insight about what our communities should look like?

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