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Anabaptist Council For Truth

What is truth?

Is there a universal truth
or is it different for different people?

Our desire is that these resources will point you to the Way, help you know Truth and how it is applied in life.

truth

  1. the true or actual state of a matter
  2. conformity with fact or reality; verity

What God established is the reality that exists, whether we accept it or not. God revealed this reality through His Word, Jesus Christ, who said I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

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Latest Articles

  • Silhouette of a cross at sunrise

    Sin: Nature, Consequence, and Answer

    The Nature of Sin Sin is a word that is often used in the language of the churched, in the rhythms of their gathering, in the words of their prayers and songs, and in the words that they speak and read. Sin is not, however, something that is easy to…

    Tony Gerber

    April 13, 2026  ·  9 min read

  • Man sitting while holding Bible

    Functional Pelagianism and Our Children

    As someone who was raised within the Anabaptist tradition, I greatly appreciate the focus most Anabaptist cultures place on creating strong families with disciplined and faithful children. Unfortunately, many conservative Anabaptist communities increasingly struggle to retain young people past early adulthood.[^1] Some move toward more liberal expressions of Anabaptism, while…

    Tom Diener

    April 10, 2026  ·  17 min read

  • Iconostases of Orthodox church of St Jovan Vladimir in Bar town, Montenegro

    An Introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy

    In an essay entitled Drawn Eastward: The Attraction of Eastern Orthodoxy for Western Christians, James R. Payton, Jr. writes, “Since the 1980s, interest in Eastern Orthodoxy has mushroomed in the West.”[^1] One prominent example of that interest is Franky Schaeffer, who joined the Greek Orthodox Church in 1990. Franky (the…

    Daniel J. Yoder

    April 8, 2026  ·  12 min read

  • A massive wooden ark navigates towering storm waves under a dark sky split by lightning, depicting Noah's ark during the Genesis flood

    Evidence for the Global Flood Account in Genesis

    “Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, ‘…For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’ For they deliberately overlook this fact, …that the…

    Javonn King

    March 1, 2026  ·  9 min read

Latest Book Reviews

  • Post Woke Neil Shenvi, Pat Sawyer

    Post Woke [Neil Shenvi; Pat Sawyer]

    In the last two decades, America radically reimagined its moral assumptions. To see how far the ground has shifted, one need only remember that Obama and the state of California both publicly opposed gay marriage as recently as 2008. That’s an astounding fact. Today, arguments about systemic racism, DEI initiatives,…

    Bryce Wenger

    May 1, 2026  ·  2 min read

  • Happy Lies - Melissa Dougherty

    Happy Lies [Melissa Dougherty]

    Twenty years ago, the most formidable opponent to Christianity was atheism, which painted Christians as backward and unscientific; today, the greater challenge comes from vague spirituality—people accept all kinds of supernatural beliefs as long as it’s nothing too dogmatic. What changed, and how should Christians respond to this new reality?…

    Bryce Wenger

    March 1, 2026  ·  2 min read

  • The Question of Canon Michael J. Kruger

    The Question of Canon [Michael J. Kruger]

    Why is there a New Testament? For most of us, that question has never entered our minds—we take it for granted that the New Testament books were God’s idea. Ask most New Testament scholars, however, and you’ll find a very different conclusion: that the church invented the New Testament canon…

    Bryce Wenger

    January 1, 2026  ·  2 min read

Our mission was born in the 1980s to proclaim Truth to a church in apostasy. In 1999 we redirected our focus to warn and encourage the remnant to remain faithful in the Truth.

In 2021 we needed to reincorporate as an Indiana nonprofit and decided to change the name to better reflect our mission and purpose in the 21st century.

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