Sightings Articles
American Culture and Old Order Anabaptism in the New Millennium by Adam Darlage
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky recently reported in Time magazine that between 2005 and 2009, 130 Mennonite women and girls on the Manitoba Colony near Santa Cruz, Bolivia, claimed that Peter Weiber, a Mennonite veterinarian, and eight other Mennonite men, s...
September 1, 2011
Lightning Strikes and Divine Disfavor by Adam Darlage
As mentioned in last week’s Sightings, until recently drivers on the stretch of I-75 between Cincinnati and Dayton had the opportunity to contemplate the six-story (62 ft.) Jesus statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, on the northbound side...
July 1, 2010
Barack Obama, Notre Dame, and the Question of Roman Catholic Identity by Adam Darlage
Notre Dame's invitation to President Barack Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17th met with criticism from many Roman Catholics across the nation. After all, as these critics argued, Obama's pro-choice stan...
May 21, 2009
Polemics in Cyberspace — Adam Darlage
The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century has been credited by Reformation scholars as an important factor behind the success of sixteenth-century Church reformers. The impact of the new technology was nowhere more apparent than in...
April 10, 2008
The Anabaptist Colloquium — Adam Darlage
Tucked away about thirty miles southeast of South Bend, Indiana, sits Goshen College. Home of the Mennonite Historical Library (MHL) and the site where Harold S. Bender founded the Mennonite Quarterly Review (MQR) in 1927, it is regarded by many as t...