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Rediscovering Anabaptism: First Anabaptist Church in England

Alan Kreider, former Mennonite missionary in England and founder member of the Anabaptist Network, tells the story of Anabaptist refugees who came to England in 1575 and were ill-treated by the English authorities, who felt threatened by their pioneering understanding of a church free from state control.