On Sunday, Dean and Phil drove all the way from Calgary, Alberta to Spokane, Washington. As soon as they crossed the border into the states, they recorded this podcast while driving through the natural splendor of Idaho’s panhandle Pile into the backseat of their rented RAV 4 and listen as your friends in podcasting discuss their on-going search for the truth in a world of conspiracy and their HELL GIGS documentary they shot with Roman Danylo in various parts of Alberta and supernatural British Columbia. Other topics include the war that has broken out in late night television, Jesse Ventura’s conspiracy show and the disaster in Haiti. Deprived of their usual podcast equipment, bringing this show to you again involved a great deal of work on Dean’s part, which is no problem at all as it is a labor of love. This is YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, after all!
Jan18th
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January 18th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Mennonites
derived from the radical reformer MENNO SIMONS (1496-1561) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons , a roman-catholic priest, who in 1536 joined the Anabaptists.
Back then, those had just failed to build a holy kindom in Münster ( city http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster) 1534/1535. Since they failed with that andwere facing quite a number of enemies afterwards, the leadership of Simons was inspirational to them.
His teachings about the baptism of Christians, the clerical discipline pacifism and the refusal of Christians, to participate any politics, did find great support in many communities. The number of followers grew especially in the 17th and 18th century ,esp. in Holland. From there it spread to other parts of Europe like the Ukraine.
Mennonites the contributed major achievements in agricultural and industrial development.
In late 19th and early 20th century Russian Mennonites were persecuted and emigrated to America and CANADA. Some settlements arose in South America too.
Today there are about 700.000 (1997) Mennonites in different places of the world, most of them in America, where some of the groups split up. They have now no real common teachings or way of life. BUT there is a wolrd-conference of Mennonites http://www.mwc-cmm.org/ which brought together a majority of the communities. Temporary Mennonite Journals support regular exchange of ideas.
C.J. Dyck: An Introduction to Mennonite History(1981)