The Brethren in Christ

Denomination·Founded 1778 CE·Brethren in Christ U.S. reports nearly 250 congregations. Membership counts are not published consistently, and the largest national churches are in Zimbabwe and Zambia rather than North America. The Brethren in Christ are members of Mennonite World Conference and are counted within its census.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Brethren in Christ

Branch

How to Live

the ethic — what it asks of a life
The plain dress went; the peace position did not. The prescribed bonnet, cape dress and collarless coat were general into the 1930s and gone by the 1960s, and the church argued the whole way. Nonresistance survived that liberalisation and remains in the Articles of Faith, though a good many American members now serve in the military. Go deeper — context →
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