“This is not a Bible just for Mennonites,” says Anabaptism at 500 project director John Roth.

The Anabaptists became ever bolder. They enjoyed great popularity among farmers, who hoped that a literal interpretation of the Bible would lead to improvements in their social status and the ...

Their roots reach back to the Anabaptist movement in 1525 at the time ... First, they cite the second of the Bible's Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not make… any graven image, or any likeness ...

The Hutterites branched off from the Anabaptist movement in 1528 in Europe ... on practices of the early Christian church in the Bible. Some 50,000 Hutterites live in 500 rural communes in ...

The Amish strive for humility and community. As members of the Anabaptist faith, they follow a strict interpretation of the Bible. In the Amish world, modern innovations like cars or the internet ...