An integral part of academic life at Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies fosters and promotes the study of Anabaptist and Pietist groups. Young Center staff, visiting scholars, and students conduct scholarly and interpretive investigations of the life, culture and beliefs of Anabaptists and Pietists, primarily in their North American context. The Center interprets the cultural and religious heritage of Anabaptist and Pietist communities to the general public via events such as lectures, seminars, and conferences.
Located near the college's Lake Placida, the Center, which is named for Galen S. Young, D.O., and Jessie M. Young, includes the Bowers Interpretive Gallery, a small bookstore, offices, research space, and a classroom. The adjoining Bucher Meetinghouse, named for Rufus P. Bucher, provides ample space for many of the Center’s programs. The Bucher Bookshop, located in the lobby, contains over 100 different titles on the Brethren, Brethren in Christ, Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, and Moravians. The books range from scholarly studies to children's fiction.
Looking Backward on a Career - Shirley Showalter
Responding with Compassion to the Crisis in Northeastern Nigeria - Kreider and Snowden Lectures
Traveling through the National Dark: Poet and Pacifist William Stafford
Weapons Transfers as Foreign Policy: Theological Ethics, Economics, and Strategy - Durnbaugh Lecture
Peace in the Face of Religious Violence - Samuel Dali
Caring for the Patient in the Time of Genomics - Dr. D. Holmes Morton
The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 - Dale Brown Book Award Lecture
Seeking Religious Toleration: Anabaptist Communication Networks and Migration in the 17th Century - Snowden Lecture
Quiet Riots: Latino Mennonites and the Politics of Belonging
Migration Stories of Mennonites on the Move: Russia, Canada, Germany, and Paraguay (1870-1945) - Dale Brown Book Award
Transformations in 20th Century Mennonite Peacemaking - Dale Brown Book Award Lecture
The Complicated Spirituality of Pietist Conversion - Dale Brown Book Award Lecture