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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.
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?
Church V State
Mennonites have had an ambivalent relationship with politics from their earliest days, and despite our move into evangelicalism this flavour remains. In today’s episode we ask what the church’s obligation is to the state? What is the state’s obligation to the church and how should Christians interact with politics?
In But Not Of
In the world, but not of it, has been a particular challenge for Anabaptists who isolated themselves early in their history and still carry some of that culture. Guests today acknowledge the strengths but also challenge some of the assumptions we may make about things like holiness, our culture and our role in the world.
Better Together, Part 2
In the second part of the question of why it is important to talk about community, hosts Jesse and Andrew focus more tightly on anabaptist communities specifically. Community is universal to the church—something the church the world over is grappling with. However, it has been particularly important to anabaptists historically.
Better Together, Part 1
Join Jesse and Andrew as they interview Layton Friesen, Stuart Murray, Meghan Larissa Good and Steve Bell on why community is worth talking about.
The Quest for Creativity
The Quest for Creativity: On this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we hear from guests Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Terry Hiebert, Dr. Betty Pries, Dr. Ronald J. Sider and Brian Zahnd.
The Conscientious Objectors, Part 2
The Theology of Conscientious Objection: On this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we will hear from guests Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Ronald J. Sider, Cyndy Warkentin and Dr. Thomas Yoder Neufeld.
The Conscientious Objectors, Part 1
The Theology of Conscientious Objection: On this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we will hear from guests Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Ronald J. Sider, Cyndy Warkentin and Dr. Thomas Yoder Neufeld.
The Children of God, Part 2
How do we, as children of God, live that out without becoming condescending and self-righteous in the process? On this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we will hear from guests Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Carol Penner, Dr. Terry Hiebert, Dr. Greg Boyd and Dr. Thomas Yoder-Neufeld.
The Children of God, Part 1
Why does Jesus connect the idea of loving our enemies to what it means to be children of God? In this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we hear from guests Greg Boyd, Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Terry Hiebert, Dr. Carol Penner, and Dr. Thomas Yoder Neufeld.
The Controversy, Part 2
What makes loving our enemies so hard? What are some of the challenges that come with trying to live out a life of nonviolence? On this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we will hear from guests Dr. Betty Pries, Brian Zahnd, Dr. Layton Friesen, Dr. Ronald J. Sider and Dr. Terry Hiebert.
The Controversy, Part 1
Why is loving our enemies controversial? Why is this topic so important? In this episode of The Armchair Anabaptist we will hear from Dr. Betty Pries, Pastor Brian Zahnd, Dr. Layton Friesen and Dr. Ronald J. Sider.
This episode dives into the account of the first church as portrayed in Acts 2 and asks if, and how, their way of being the church applies to us. Whether that makes you nervous about what’s coming in this episode or eager to hear more, you’ll find a range of potential applications of the early church model and plenty of things to think about.