The Lutheran Word Federation is making plans to issue a public apology to the Anabaptists, including Mennonites and Amish. In the oft-ridiculed world of apologies for things that one's ancestors did, this qualifies as a comparatively reasonable and purposeful example. It will help to heal an old wound, and allow smoother working relations between two modern church bodies with a strong commitment to works of peace and justice.
Our question, which will probably not help much with those things, is this: When will Anabaptists apologize to the rest of Christianity for introducing the historically and theologically anomalous idea that we should withhold baptism from infants?
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