Oval Forum

Edmund Martin

  • Wooden scaffolding around restored church building

    The Hidden Framework Reshaping Anabaptist Faith: How Good Intentions and Scholarly Appeals Are Quietly Redefining the Gospel

    Conservative Anabaptist communities today face tremendous pressure from progressive theology. As mainline Mennonite conferences have embraced positions incompatible with Scripture, faithful believers have sought solid ground. Many have turned to historical scholarship, early church fathers, contemporary scholars, seeking frameworks to defend biblical faith against liberal drift. When progressives dismiss biblical…

    Edmund Martin

    January 23, 2026  ·  18 min read

  • Suffering man Job, praying to God

    A Biblical Perspective on Suffering

    When one of our children was born, a quietness settled into the room as the expected cry of a child experiencing their first breath did not happen. There was not a lot of talking, but there was quick, quiet work by the nurses’ expert hands, along with the arrival of…

    Edmund Martin

    August 15, 2025  ·  10 min read