Mark Van Steenwyk (founder of the Jesus Manifesto blog) has started a site called Submergent that is specifically intended to be a place for conversation between Anabaptists and emerging church people. The conversation is open to people who may or may not consider themselves Anabaptist. Mark is part of a sort of unofficial sub-cadre of people within Emergent that has been dubbed the “Hauerwas mafia” for the attention they pay to Yoder’s and Hauerwas’ ideas on theology and postmodernism (specifically pacifism).

In Argentina, most Mennonite congregations resist any kind of ecumenical involvement (especially with Catholics who are generally not considered Christian by most Protestants), and since this means they have to work alone (as they are usually the only Mennonite church in their area) they have been swept up in the ultra-conservative neo-pentecostal movement.

Okay, so that was too much name calling for the aforementioned movement, but that is what I was proudly told by a member that they call themselves. It just looks funny with so many hypens when translated into English. The movement is fairly anti-modern and prides it’s self on it’s “fundamentalism” and “resistance to change,” but the truth is that is has changed a whole lot over time. That’s another post that someone who studies can write.

Good luck learned together across denominations. La Iglesia Menonita/Anabautista de Buenos Aires is a congregation that is super involved ecumenically in Buenos Aires, who are seriously working together on issues like human rights, immigrant relationships and rights, and peace. http://www.menonitas.org.ar/identidad2.html