EMCC History

Fundamentalism

  • Fundamentalism and the EMCC 2

    Continuing a survey of the intersection of fundamentalism and the Missionary Church. My idea is that the early Missionary Church, at least the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, approved some of the theological aims of the fundamentalist opposition to liberal theology… Continue reading

    Fundamentalism and the EMCC 2

  • Fundamentalism and the EMCC 1

    This is my trouble–/These were my fathers/ So how am I supposed to feel?/ Way out on the rim of the broken wheel. from Bruce Cockburn, “Broken Wheel” (1981) When Presiding Elder Alvin Traub of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ… Continue reading

    Fundamentalism and the EMCC 1

  • How to Kill a Program of “Women in Ministry” Part 2

    In EMCC History Blog “Women Preachers in the Early EMCC Part 1,” we looked at some of the supports for “women in ministry,” and in the Blog “How to Kill a Program of ‘Women in Ministry’ Part 1,” difficulties the… Continue reading

    How to Kill a Program of “Women in Ministry” Part 2