Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network

About the AMSN

The Anabaptist Mennonite emphasis on dialogue between scholars of different disciplines and between scholars and the broader ecclesial community is at the heart of the Anabaptist Mennonite Scholars Network (AMSN). The AMSN responds to the need for increasing communication around conference planning, special journal issues, and related items with a view not only to facilitating greater awareness and cooperation but also, and significantly, to expanding the conversation. In a very modest way, the AMSN seeks to nurture the conditions whereby we can break out of disciplinary, institutional, gendered, and geographic siloes that too often narrow our vision by fostering cross-disciplinary connections that intentionally include marginalized voices from across the street and around the world.

An email newsletter with recently added and upcoming news and events will be sent out roughly every quarter. Sign up to the AMSN mailing list at the bottom of this page and contact us if you have information and/or events you would like to include.

Calls for Papers

Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | Submissions due 28 February 2021
From the Rising to the Setting Sun: Global Perspectives on Bible and Violence | Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence | Bristol Baptist College | Submissions due 1 March 2021
Vital Connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen | 9th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality | Submission due 15 March 2021
Religion and Emancipation Workshop | Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary and VU Amsterdam | Submissions due 4 April 2021
Women, Liberation, and the Bible | Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL | Submission due 30 April 2021
Special Issue: Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method | Conrad Grebel Review | Submission due 1 May 2021
Believer's Church Theologies: Different Cultures, Different Streams | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Submission due 1 May 2021

Conferences, Lectures, and Events

Blackness, Whiteness and the Anabpatist 'Imagined Community' in Print and Mission | Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel Univeristy College | 11 March 2021
Trauma and the Environment: How Then Shall We Live? | Religion & Science Conference | Goshen College | 12 - 13 March 2021
Absent Fathers, Invisbile Mothers, and the Irrespressible Dance of Love: A Reading of the Theological Virtues as Epistemological Virtues | TMTC Public Lecture | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | 24 March 2021
Indigenous-Mennonite Encoungers in Time and Place | Conrad Grebel University College | 13 May 2021 & 13–15 May 2022
Vital Connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen | 9th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality | Conrad Grebel University College | 8–23 June 2021
Hope, Despair, Lament | Ninth Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | Harrisonburg, Winnipeg, & Southern Ontario | 17–19 June 2021
Religion and Emancipation: Two Enounters and a Workshop | Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary and VU Amsterdam | June 2021 & September 2021
Believer's Church Theologies: Different Cultures, Different Streams | The 19th Believers' Church Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada | 14–17 October 2021
Women, Liberation, and the Bible | Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL | San Antonio, Texas | 19 November 2021
Mennonite World Conference Assembly | Indonesia | 5–7 July 2022

Recurring Lectures and Events

Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel Univeristy College
Benjamin Eby Lecture | Conrad Grebel Univesity College
Brethren in Christ Study Conferece | Messiah University
C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture | Bluffton University and Goshen College
J.J. Thiessen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
John and Margaret Friesen Lectures | Canadian Mennonite University
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum at the AAR/SBL
Rawlyk Memorial Lecture in Baptist Studies | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar | Conrad Grebel University College
Shrag Lecture | Messiah Univeristy
TMTC Biennial Graduate Student Conference |Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
TMTC Public Lecture | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Zeman Memorial Lecture in Anabpatist Studies | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies

Employment Opportunities

Full time professor of Biblicial Studies | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary | 1 July 2021 start date
Interim Chaplain | Conrad Grebel University College | 1 August 2021 start date
Biblical and Theological Studies faculty and Assistant Program Director | Fresno Pacific University | 1 July 2021 start date

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies Essay Prize | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Travel Grants | Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
A. James Reimer Award | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Bridging Gaps Exchange Program | VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary
Canadian Japanese-Mennonite Scholarship | Mennonite Central Committee
"Company of 1000" Study Reserve Fund | Mennonite Church Canada
J. Winfield Fretz Fellowship in Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
TMTC Fellows Program | Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
Young Center Fellows Program | Elizabethtown College

Publications

Journals

Anabaptism Today | Anabaptist Mennoite Network
Anabatptist Witness | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Conrad Grebel Review | Conrad Grebel Univesity College
Direction | Mennonite Bretheren higher education institutions in Canada and the US
Mennonite Quarterly Review | Goshen College, Anabaptist Mennointe Biblical Seminary, and the Mennonite Historical Society
Mennonite Life | Bethel College
Journal of Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg & Canadian Mennonite University
Journal of Mennonite Writting | Centre for Mennonite Writing at Goshen College
Korean Anabaptist Journal
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies | Canadian Mennonite University
Reflections | Missionary Church Historical Society
RELEA: Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Anabautistas
Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Canadian Mennonite Univesity

Recent Books

Be it Resolved: Anabaptist & Partner Coalitions Advocate for Indigenous Justice. 196 - 2020 | Edited by Steve Heinrichs & Esther Epp-Tiessen | 2020
Jesus, Deliver Us: Evil, Exorcism, and Exousiai | Willard M. Swartley | 2019
Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theolgoy through the Wisdome of Women | Edited by Darryl W. Stephens and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht | 2020
Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision | Edited by Laura Schmidt Roberts, Paul Martens, Myron A. Penner | 2020
Peaceful at Heart: Anabaptist Reflections on Healthy Masculinity | Edited by Don Neufled and Steve Thomas | 2019
The Absent Christ: An Anabaptist Theology of the Empty Tomb | Justin Heinzekehr | 2019
The Lives of Amish Women | Karen Johnson-Weiner |2020
Voices Together Hymnal | MennoMedia, Mennonite Church Canada, and Mennonite Church USA | 2020

Book Series

Online Resources

Anabaptist Historians: Bringing the Anabaptsit Past into a Digital Century | Menno Simons Historical Library at Eastern Mennonite University and The Center for Anabaptst, Pietist, and Weslyan Studies at Messiah University
Anabaptist Worship Network | Mennonite Church Eastern Canada and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
Global Anabaptist Wiki | Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College
CommonWord | Mennoite Church Canada and Canadian Mennonite University
Together in Worship | CommonWord, Anabaptist Worship Network, and Voices Together

Research Centres and Institutes

Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptsit Studies | Acadia Divinity College
Arbeitsstelle Theologie der Friedenskirchen | Universität Hamburg
Canadian School of Peacebuilding | Canadian Mennonite University
Center for Anabaptist Studies | Fresno Pacific University
Center for Faith Formation and Culture | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Center for Justice and Peacebuilding | Eastern Mennonite University
Center for Mennonite Writing | Goshen College
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies | Tabor College
Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution | Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College
Centre for Anabaptist Studies | Bristol Baptist College
Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies | Canadian Conference of MB Churches
Centre for Resilience | Canadian Mennonite University
Centre for the Study of Religion and Peace | Conrad Grebel University College
Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg
Centre Mennonite de Paris
Chair in Mennonite Studies | University of Winnipeg
Doopsgesind Seminarium
D. F. Plett Historical Research Foundation
Humanitas Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre | Trinity Western University
Institute for the Study of Global Anabpatism | Goshen College
Institute of Anabaptist Mennonite Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
Institute of Mennonite Studies | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies | Conrad Grebel University College
Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement | Conrad Grebel University College
Mennonitische Forschungsstelle | Einrichtung des Mennonitischen Geschichtsvereins e. V. in Deutschland
Menno Simons Historical Library | Eastern Mennonite University College
Mennonite Archives of Ontario | Conrad Grebel University College
Mennonite Heritage Archives | Canadian Mennonite University, Mennonite Church Canada, and The Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
Peace Studies Centre | Myanmar Institute of Theology
Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies | Messiah University
Summer Peacebuilding Institute | Eastern Mennonite University
Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre | Conrad Grebel University College
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies | Elizabethtown College
Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice | Center for Justice & Peacebuilding

Contact Us

We are always looking to add information of relevance to the Anabaptist-Mennonite scholarly world around the globe and rely on an ever-expanding network of institutions and individuals to keep us in the loop with what is happening in your neck of the woods. If you have information or events you would like to see on the AMSN website, please contact us.