The Annals
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In 2005, in working with the year of the Council at Nicea (ca 325 CE) and with Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy, I realized the significance of 1525 CE, and the modest beginning of the Anabaptist movement, of which my ancestors were parties. And I also realized that the Anabaptist movement stalled out about a century and a half after it began with so much enthusiasm … severe persecution turned enthusiasm into silence, and Anabaptists became a silent folk in several sheepcotes as they sought righteousness without appearing as threats to civil authorities.
The Anabaptist reforms of the 16th-Century were not taken to their logical conclusion. The Annals of Believers’ Baptism picks up where the first reformers left off—and there will be nothing silent in what’s written.