"I recently had the opportunity to attend the Inhabit Conference hosted by Parrish Collective in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, and I've been processing what I saw, heard, and felt ever since. To be honest, my first takeaway was just how different their context...
We are so excited to share with you the recent hiring of Paul Stanley as the West Regional Resource Coordinator. He has replaced Dan Acker, who has been serving in that role while also serving his local church and as the new Coordinator of Vitality. Paul...
https://youtu.be/fp1fPq3CiYk?si=oht52v216TQy97Vb One of the greatest opportunities we have at Ashland University is to walk alongside students as they discover how God is at work in their lives. For AU students, faith is not pursued alone, but it is shaped through...
May 10-17, 2026: 68 student-athletes with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) spent the last week serving in Lancaster, South Carolina. The FCA mission trip is an annual opportunity led by athletics chaplains, Rev. Joe Maggelet, Austin Brenner, and Grace...
The Brethren of the mid-1800s would have looked very much like the Amish, with a distinctive dress that was meant to set them apart from the fashion-crazed world. The specific features of the Brethren uniform had gradually evolved during the first half of the...
Without doubt the most contentious issue that stirred the emotions of the German Baptist Brethren during the 1870s was the correct mode of feetwashing. The reason for this derived from how highly the Brethren valued unity of both thought and practice, especially...
From the beginning of the Brethren movement in Germany, the church had maintained a strong commitment to evangelism during the 1700s. However, this commitment had waned during the first half of the 1800s, possibly due to their German subculture and hesitancy to...
Traditionally, the Brethren felt that a “common school” education, the basic education provided by most states during the nineteenth century, supplied the children of Brethren parents with the necessary skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. As stated by...
The Sunday School movement is generally considered to have begun in 1780 in England under the leadership of Robert Raikes, though some Brethren historians in the early twentieth century tried to claim this honor for the Brethren, citing young people’s meetings at...
In the previous post, I mentioned that the scattered nature of the Brethren family from the east coast to the west coast by the 1840s and 50s led to a sense that greater unity was needed to hold the family together. Another effort, besides Annual Meeting, that...