AMBS News and Stories

Rooted and Grounded: A Conference on Land and Christian Discipleship

The fifth Rooted and Grounded: A Conference on Land and Christian Discipleship will be held Oct. 14–16, 2021; proposals for papers and workshops are due April 30.

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The AMBS learning community bid farewell to Barb Gamble in February and welcomed Steve Norton to an additional role.

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The AMBS Development Team has undergone some shifts in roles and responsibilities.

Members of the AMBS learning community leave worship at the Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount during orientation week in August 2019. (Credit: Peter Ringenberg)

The merit-based scholarships are designed to make Anabaptist theological and leadership education more accessible to students of diverse traditions, ethnicities, racial identities and geographic locations.

The AMBS Marketing and Communications Team is undergoing some shifts in roles and responsibilities.

Paul and Bertha Miller (Photo provided by Jim Miller)

Since its inception in 1990, the Paul and Bertha Miller Pastoral Leadership Scholarship has benefited 38 students with $120,419 in tuition aid.

The 2020–21 members of the ICUR team at the 2020 International Student Lunch.

This year's COVID-aware AMBS International Student Lunch involved carry-out meals and fellowship via videoconference.

AMBS students sing "Jesus, we are here"

Members of the AMBS community have created elements of a worship service that we are offering to our constituent congregations.

Top row (l. to r.): Plenary speakers at Pastors and Leaders 2021: Cynthia L. Hale, D.Min.; James Nelson Gingerich, M.D.; Marvin Lorenzana, D.Min. Bottom row (l. to r.): Preachers and worship leaders at Pastors and Leaders 2021: Drew Strait, Ph.D.; Katie G

Offering church leaders space to “be” while learning how to thrive as leaders and congregations in the midst of the unprecedented disruption of COVID-19 will be the focus of Pastors and Leaders 2021.

Karl Stutzman and Brandon Board, AMBS Library

Karl Stutzman, M.L.S., and Brandon Board, M.L.I.S., were honored by the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana Inc.

Nancy Kauffmann, D.Min., and Anne Garber Kompaoré, Ph.D., are the 2020 recipients of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s Alumni Ministry and Service Recognition. (Photos provided)

Nancy Kauffmann of Goshen, Indiana, and Anne Garber Kompaoré of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, are the 2020 recipients of the annual award.

Janna Hunter-Bowman, Ph.D.

It’s movement time

November 3, 2020

What does witness look like now?   By Janna L. Hunter-Bowman, Ph.D., ...

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As announced on Oct. 20, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada terminated the minis...

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At the Institute of Mennonite Studies, we are grieving the news of findings of misconduct by John D. Rempel.

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Today, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) is reporting the conclusion of an in...

Karl Stutzman, M.L.S., Director of Library Services; Sara Gurulé, Student Library Assistant; Abby Hershberger, Institute of Mennonite Studies Student Assistant; and David Cramer, Ph.D., IMS Managing Editor; display volumes of two IMS boo

The Institute of Mennonite Studies (IMS) and the AMBS Library have digitized two important IMS book series, making them freely accessible online.

Works that are part of the intercultural Bible reading project of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s Institute of Mennonite Studies are available through the AMBS Bookstore. (Credit: David Cramer)

The Widow and the Judge — Memory, Resistance and Hope: Intercultural Reading of Luke 18:1–8 in Latin American Contexts of Impunity is fifth and final volume.

(l. to. r.) AMBS campus residents and Master of Divinity candidates Febri Kristiani, Sophia Austin and Mara Weaver Boshart watch the Aug. 22 livestreamed commencement and commissioning service onscreen in the seminary lounge. (Credit: Peter Ringenberg)

In this time of pandemic and social upheaval, Ben C. Ollenburger, Ph.D., encouraged the candidates for graduation to focus on one thing: love.

Bryan Moyer Suderman, M.T.S. (Photo provided)

Bryan Moyer Suderman, M.T.S., has resigned from his half-time role as advancement associate for Canada as of Aug. 21.

During Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s annual commencement ceremony, graduates receive small replicas of the bell that is on the seminary campus, which originally hung at the Wadsworth (Ohio) Institute, the first Mennonite institution of higher l

The public is invited to the live-streamed commencement and commissioning ceremony from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

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Seminary leaders' goal is to give students and employees safe access to campus spaces while making it possible to study or work from home as needed.

(l. to r.) Lyle Schaller, Howard Zehr and Jacob T. Friesen at a Ministers‘ Workshop held at AMBS in 1976. (AMBS photo)

From 1987 to 1997, Friesen served as director of the Great Plains Seminary Education Program.

Display of AMBS Library resources in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day in January 2020 (Credit: Karl Stutzman)

In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the AMBS Library is committing 10% of its acquisitions budget to purchase anti-oppression resources materials for 2020–21.