What Do Mennonites Mean by “Plainness”? – Edsel Burdge

Edsel Burdge walks us through plainness, starting with the Quakers, addressing concerns of plainness at various points of conservative Mennonite history, and makes a case for why considerations of plainness should matter to Christians today. Burdge thinks of plainness as an approach to life that identifies a person with God’s people while resisting pressures of wealth, consumerism, and sensuality.

Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College: https://www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/

Ready to Harvest’s Video about Mennonites:
https://youtu.be/Dy_Uyc3_b0s?si=Yv5zl5I18yq6quCn

“Overview of the Plain People” by Ernest Eby:
https://churchplantersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/An-Overview-of-the-Plain-People-2022.pdf

“An Introduction to Old Order: and Conservative Mennonite Groups” by Stephen Scott: https://a.co/d/cHJRsvQ

Shippensburg Christian Fellowship History Series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSC9tH5xB0&list=PLXnQy8EDLcU__UmTCUTze8Qrb5hEKmM_s

“Building on the Gospel Foundation” by Edsel Burdge and Samuel Horst: https://heraldpress.com/9780836192650/building-on-the-gospel-foundation/

Link to the First Episode with Edsel:
https://anabaptistperspectives.org/episodes/the-american-mennonite-story-1730-1930/

Two related episodes with Chester Weaver:
https://youtu.be/ua0XTnUoYSU?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/d1t9uz3GaxQ?feature=shared

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