This post is just a brief appreciation of Jamie Pitts’ presentation for the Mennonite Action call today on Mennonite history and social movements. It’s exciting to see such thoughtful, complex, and direct engagement with historiographical complexities that mediate between descriptive honesty and the inevitable and also desirable need for normative uses of history (most especially against fascist and violent patterns).
The two essays that I wrote, that he graciously mentioned, are provided below:
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 