Menno Expert On Call
I take a healthy level pride in my various expertises. One of them is Anabaptist/Mennonite theology, history and sociology, or at least I like to think so. Tomorrow, my expertise has been called upon. Through a family connection at the church where I pastor, I have been asked to visit a local high school world religions class to talk about the Mennonite religion. Since it's a catholic school, I've been asked to highlight the places where Mennonite belief differs from Catholic belief. My biggest fear is that the presentation is supposed to take up the whole class, which is 75 minutes. My other worry is that I probably know more about the 16th century Catholic church belief structure than I know about contemporary Catholicism.

If I can, I'll use a few video clips which should help to both entertain and amuse. I'm also really hoping to get some good questions from the students, besides the typical horse & buggy and incest questions (I should have some good comebacks ready just in case).

I've already planned to talk about baptism, pacifism and symbolism. I think that should pretty much cover it. They want me to focus mostly on religion and not so much history or sociology. I want respect that, but as with almost all groups, the three are inextricably interwoven. The best explanation of a question from any one of those groups generally includes parts of the other two.

If anyone has any suggestions or points to highlight, or even questions that would be helpful or that you even want answered, feel free to post them in the comment link. Thanks.
(I leave at 10am EST on Tuesday)

   [ posted by William @ 4:31 PM ]