Season 2 Episode 2 – “Appealing to External Authority”

One of the radical things that the Anabaptists of Münster did was to implement a community of goods. Following the Biblical precedent of Acts 2:44, they redistributed the wealth of

For this episode, I wanted to bring in an outsider to the Mennonite world. Professor Jim West is a scholar of, among other things, the life and work of Ulrich

After the baptisms in January, 1534, things escalate among the growing crowd of Anabaptists in Münster. Armies are assembled, real and imaginary, a siege is initiated, an election happens, and