Sanford Calvin Yoder (December 5, 1879 – February 23, 1975) was a

Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Ra ...

pastor, biblical scholar, moderator of the Mennonite General Conference from 1919 to 1921, and president of

Goshen College Goshen College is a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana. It was founded in 1894 as the Elkhart Institute of Science, Industry and the Arts, and is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. The college is accredited by the Hig ...

from 1923 to 1940. He was also a leader in the Mennonite

conscientious objector A conscientious objector (often shortened to conchie) is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. The term has also been extended to obje ...

movement surrounding

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

Publications

* ''Down South America Way'' (1943) * ''Poetry of the Old Testament'' (Herald Press, Scottsdale PA, 1948) * ''Eastward to the Sun'' (1953) * ''Horse Trails Along the Desert'' (1954) * ''Days of My Years'' (1959) * ''If I Were Young Again'' (1963) * ''He Gave Some Prophets'' (1964)

References

External links

Mennonite Church USA Archives

Nonviolence advocates Goshen College faculty Mennonite theologians American biblical scholars American Mennonites Anabaptist biblical scholars 20th-century Mennonite bishops 1879 births 1975 deaths Mennonite writers {{US-reli-bio-stub