Right Remembering
What is «Right Remembering»?
Knowing the past is indispensable in understanding the present and provides orientation for shaping the future. In 2025 it will be 500 years since the emergence of Anabaptism. Commemorative events are coming up. Exhibitions like this one help to visualize the history.
Photo: Alfred Neufeld / Mennonite World Conference 2015.
Between 2012 and 2017, intensive discussions took place between Catholic, Lutheran and Mennonite delegations.
Remembering is important. But what constitutes "right" remembering? How can we name the difficult and painful things without tearing open old wounds? What does not create new rifts, but builds bridges and encourages reconciliation, healing and sustainable models of togetherness?
From 2006 to 2009, an intensive dialogue took place between Reformed and Mennonite churches in Switzerland. Here the discussion group visits an Anabaptist memorial near Schleitheim in the canton of Schaffhausen.
The exhibition at Trachselwald Castle on Anabaptist history and present tries to follow such a path of "Right Remembering". We welcome your feedback to help us achieve this goal.