Today’s Christian nationalists have shaped their theology in ways that harken to apocalyptic prophets of the1530s.

The worst measles outbreak in Texas in 30 years has been linked to an isolated Mennonite community. Last week authorities announced that an unvaccinated six-year-old had become the first casualty ...

Others are very conservative and more secluded. All Anabaptist movements, throughout history, have endured persecution. The pacifist commitment, and resistance to governments of violence and ...

Many here say the virus has spread quickly among the Mennonites, a tight-knit Anabaptist community that ... s centuries-long flight from religious persecution in Europe and their years here ...

About 30% live in North America. Anabaptists suffered persecution under both Catholic and Protestant rulers, a legacy that ...

Yet, like persecuted dissenters of the 1530s, they claim divine authority to remake society. Derisively called Anabaptists, the small group of dissenters also refused to participate in government.

A history of persecution by the state left more traditionally ... Educators at Walsingham Christian School, an Anabaptist school in western Norfolk that has navigated a measles outbreak, sent ...