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Who are the Mennonite drug dealers, and where can I get a Mennonite date? Find them on Facebook.com , where a growing number of Anabaptist groups are flexing their cocktail-party muscle. If the networks really do rival blogs in terms of traffic, then Mennonite network (2,901 members), Kiss Me, I’m Mennonite (1,350) Anabaptists (1,012), The Mennonite Game (851), and Mennonite Central Committee (718) are leading the pack.
The easiest thing for young people these days is to discard tradition in favour of a more enlightened non-denominational stance towards their Christian faith. To counteract this tendency, American Mennonites have been blogging at younganabaptistradicals.org, discussing the issues of the day with Mr. Simons in mind. Materialism, politics, and culture-critique posts abound.
“As radical Anabaptists,” they say, “we’d like to imagine together what it might mean to root our lived faith today (and tomorrow) in the spirit and soil of early Anabaptism.” Historical theologian Brian Hamilton commented on the site that “insofar as radical really does mean a return to the radix, or root, every radical must trace their history back to its source – no branch is nourished by the roots except through the other branches and through the trunk.”
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