About this forum

[FreeinChrist]

I just saw that I am a moderator here. I would like to help you organize your forum and get a wiki going.

For the purpose of getting things going, I am suggesting the following for the wiki:


Welcome to the Anabaptist forum.

What is an Anabaptist?


These three links will answer some of the questions regarding "What is an Anabaptist".

Just as in all denom groups there is a spectrum from left to right.

http://www.bibleviews.com/Schleitheim.html
(1527)

[FONT=&quot]http://www.bibleviews.com/Dordrecht.html
(1632)
http://www.bibleviews.com/BriefSF.html
(1963)
http://www.mennolink.org/doc/cof/
(1995)

The final two are mennonite confessions and would not speak for the entirety of anabaptist family (amish/hutterite/brethren)
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(thanks mrJim for that)


The forums rules are:
1. Only Anabaptists can vote for the moderators of the Anabaptist forum.
2. Only Anabaptists can alter the Wiki which is to establish subforum rules


Please comment

 

[WayneinMaine]

I think the description of Anabaptism needs to be modified. I don't think citations of confessions of faith are adequate. There is a historical perspective on Anabaptism, there is a cultural/ethnic dynamic within Anabaptism and there are distinct ideas that distinguish Anabaptist churches from other Christian groups. I think a description of Anabaptism should reflect all of these facets, but should especially reflect the historical distinctives of Anabaptist beliefs and practices.

 

[CelticRose]

What have you done with the Quakers?

 

[FreeinChrist]

Well, I haven't done anything with the Quakers.

I would like to see this forum establish some suforum rules (FSRs) in regards to who can vote for moderators and be a moderator...and who can debate doctrine. For instance, I wouldn't like to see a person from another denom or part of christianity prosletyzing here and debating...but it needs to be up to you.

What do you think needs to be added?

 

[FreeinChrist]

Can you write it out?

We need in incorporate all Anabaptists here in the description.

 

[CelticRose]

This was origonly a forum for the peace churches; the Anabaptist title has been rather misleading. If it is now strictly Anabaptist I need to know 'cause I can no longer post in here & I'm not sure where the rest of my denom, a relative minority, post in CF. My understanding was in here... so where have the Quakers been put?

 

[WayneinMaine]

Can you write it out?

We need in incorporate all Anabaptists here in the description.

I think we need to contact the Anabpatists who no longer participate in this group to come on over.

 

[Crazy Liz]

Well, I haven't done anything with the Quakers.

I would like to see this forum establish some suforum rules (FSRs) in regards to who can vote for moderators and be a moderator...and who can debate doctrine. For instance, I wouldn't like to see a person from another denom or part of christianity prosletyzing here and debating...but it needs to be up to you.

What do you think needs to be added?

This forum was created because the Baptists wanted to be by themselves in the old Baptist/Anabaptist forum, which included Baptists, Anabaptists, Quakers, Brethren and similar denominations. Calling this forum Anabaptist has left Quakers wondering if we are welcome in any Congregation forum. It also orphaned the denominations similar to Baptist, but without the word "Baptist" in their name, such as Christian & Missionary Alliance.

With all due respect, having a moderator who does not belong to any of the groups that were kicked out of B/A initiate our self-definition has not been will-received, and probably never will. Please don't try to force us to make rules. Please don't post polls trying to force us to vote. For many Anabaptists and for Friends always, voting is not something we look upon highly. It can be divisive and polarizing. Our traditions favor consensus processes, even though they are slower, and can allow tensions to continue to exist for long periods of time. We are particularly sensitive to this, as we are here because of a small group of Baptists who polarized our previous forum, then appealed to a mod who was from an entirely different Protestant tradition to create this shiny new ghetto for us by fiat.

We've been wounded, and may never recover.

I know you meant well, FreeinChrist. However, your poll is not helping. It is just reminding us of the old wounds imposed upon us by other outsiders. Saucy tried to get us to define ourselves last month, and we just didn't respond. We'll define ourselves if and when we decide we need to, and would prefer not to have a definition forced upon us. I don't blame you for stumbling into this mess. You are trying to understand how to moderate us by getting us to make some FSRs. We're not sure yet whether we want to make FSRs. We're certainly not ready to be forced into a vote.

 

[CelticRose]

Actually at this point we still aren't even in agreement as to who belongs in here.

 

[Crazy Liz]

Actually at this point we still aren't even in agreement as to who belongs in here.

This is true.

And questions of who belongs here should not be framed for us by staff who have no memory of how this ghetto came to be in the first place.

 

[Joykins]

This forum is not very active since so many have been made unwelcome to be members in it. That is my impression as someone who has only posted here in fellowship.

 

[CelticRose]

Personally, always happy to see you post, Joykins.

 

[Crazy Liz]

This forum is not very active since so many have been made unwelcome to be members in it. That is my impression as someone who has only posted here in fellowship.

That's pretty much my feeling, too.

IMHO, it's the legacy of the forum not being created by and for its own members, but being created by a group who didn't want us, with no input from the members at all.

 

[somasoul]

I'm new here but as a confused-Christian/anabaptist I'd like to try to make the forum better.

 

[tulc]

The forums rules are:
1. Only Anabaptists can vote for the moderators of the Anabaptist forum.
2. Only Anabaptists can alter the Wiki which is to establish subforum rules

You havn't dealt with anabaptists very much, have you?
tulc(just curious)

 

[Crazy Liz]

You havn't dealt with anabaptists very much, have you?
tulc(just curious)

Where are those rules?

I can't find an Anabaptist Wiki.

 

[tulc]

Where are those rules?

I can't find an Anabaptist Wiki.

I couldn't even begin to guess.
tulc(maybe the Baptists made our rules?)

 

[CelticRose]

lol. You're a comedian, tulc.

 

[Adammi]

I'm not sure if there is a stated home for Quakers, but many Quakers are a bit more liberal than other Christians and you are certainly welcome in WWMC.

 

[Crazy Liz]

I'm not sure if there is a stated home for Quakers, but many Quakers are a bit more liberal than other Christians and you are certainly welcome in WWMC.

Baptist/ASnabaptist was the home for Quakers, Christian & Missionary Alliance, Evangelical Covenant, etc. before the Baptists kicked us out.

Not all of us are liberal or postmodern.

Most members can have BOTH a Congregation forum based on our denomination and a broader forum based on whether we describe ourselves a Fundamentalist, Conservative or Liberal/Postmodern.