“How do we connect the life and worship of the church to our actions? Tony’s death was a call for people, to realize that we need to be doing even more. “
Tom and Carolyn Albright (Tony’s story) — United States
Lucy Roca – Colombia and Canada
“No matter how difficult the situation you are in, it is worth the cost to follow Jesus Christ.”
Tweeting, email, and prayer: global Christian solidarity in the 21st century
Although most of the stories of the Bearing Witness site come from decades, or even centuries, ago, we also highlight current, ongoing stories of costly discipleship through this blog and our Facebook page. In those spaces over the past few months, we’ve featured the stories of two young men—one a Mennonite from South Korea and Keep Reading…
Ellene Miller
Although Ellene Miller was already a grandmother in 1985, her age did not keep her from following her faith into complicated situations. In June of that year, Broadway Christian Parish in South Bend, Indiana, commissioned Miller, along with thirty others, for an act of civil disobedience. At the conclusion of the commissioning service, the group Keep Reading…
John Schrag
John Schrag was a prosperous Mennonite farmer who lived Harvey County, Kansas. He was a member of the Hoffnungsfeld (Hopefield) Mennonite Church. In 1917 when the United States went to war against Germany, Schrag refused to buy bonds to help pay for the war. Many Mennonites reasoned that war bonds were like taxes. Payment could Keep Reading…
Joseph, Michael, and David Hofer and Jacob Wipf (Hutterite Martyrs of 1918)
Of the many accounts of war resistance during the First World War, there are few more harrowing than the story of the four Hutterites who were imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The Hutterites are descendants of a large group of Austrian peasants who broke away from the Catholic church in the sixteenth century, living Keep Reading…
Black Kettle, Cheyenne peace chief
On November 27, 1868, Black Kettle, a Cheyenne peace chief, and his wife, Medicine Woman Later, were shot in the back and killed by United States Cavalry fire as they tried to escape an army attack during the Washita Massacre along the Washita River in Oklahoma. Black Kettle’s witness as a Cheyenne chief who pushed Keep Reading…