The Churches and the Great War: A Centennial Reflection

May 31– June 1, 2018 AT ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE

The peace churches, including the , , Brethren, and SPEAKERS , faced a challenge when the United States entered in 1917. After the and the Mennonite Church WILLIAM KOSTLEVY is the archivist for the Brethren Historical issued separate statements advising their young men not to participate Library and Archives in Elgin, in the war, the U.S. government threatened retaliatory action. This con- Illinois and has taught at Tabor College. ference offers an exploration of various experiences and responses from

members of the peace churches during “the war to end all wars” and PERRY BUSH is a professor of history at Bluffton University. some of the consequences that followed. Among his books is Two King- doms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Overview of Conference Schedule in Modern America.

THURSDAY, MAY 31 CARL STRIKWERDA is the 11:00 am Registration opens president of Elizabethtown College and a historian of WWI. 1:30 pm Conference opening, welcome

1:45 pm Plenary speech by William Kostlevy: “, Scripture and JEFF BACH is the director of the Patriotism: Reflections on the Peace Churches in the Great War” Young Center for Anabaptist and 3:15 pm Paper presentations Pietist Studies and a professor of religious studies at Elizabethtown 5:00 pm Supper College. 6:30 pm “A First Class Fighting Man,” an interview with Barbara Royer by Jeff Bach DUANE STOLTZFUS is a professor of communication (The interview program is free and open to the public.) at Goshen College. He is the author of Pacifists in Chains: FRIDAY, JUNE 1 Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War. 8:30 am Paper presentations 10:30 am Plenary speech by Perry Bush: “Mennonites and the Great War” DORA MAENDEL is a teacher at 11:45 am Lunch Fairholme Hutterite Colony in Manitoba, Canada. 1:15 pm Paper presentations 3:30 pm Speech by Carl Strikwerda, view Voices of Conscience exhibit 5:00 pm Supper 6:30 pm Summary Comments by Jeff Bach: “Reflections on the Great War and the Future of Peacemaking” 7:00 pm Presentation by Duane Stoltzfus and Dora Maendel: “On the Frontline of Conscience: An Account of Four Hutterites Imprisoned at Alcatraz” (The presentation is free and open to the public.)

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