The simplest storyline puts the start on Jan. 21, 1525, in Zürich, Switzerland. A band of acquaintances made their way to the home of Anna Manz, mother of Felix, one of their number. For months, this ...

I became an Anabaptist because of George W. Bush. Well, not so much Bush personally—though the former president’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the context in which I began to grapple with what ...