You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.
John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...