Jamie Pitts, PhD
Professor of Anabaptist Studies; History, Theology, and Ethics Department Chair; Director, Institute of Mennonite Studies; Editor, Anabaptist Witness Journal
About Jamie
Jamie Pitts, PhD, teaches and does research in the areas of Anabaptist-Mennonite theology and history, systematic theology, and Christian ethics. He has recently written a book on the Holy Spirit and organizations and, with Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, an oral history of an African American neighborhood in Elkhart, Indiana. He is currently working on a project related to the doctrine of reconciliation and anti-colonial resistance.
In addition to teaching and research, Jamie directs AMBS’s research and publishing wing, the Institute of Mennonite Studies. IMS publishes books and journals on Anabaptist history, theology, biblical studies, and ministry. For more information about IMS click here.
Publications
- Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2025)
- w/ Nekeisha Alayna Alexis, What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope (IUSB/Wolfson Press, 2025)
- w/ Luis Tapia Rubio, “Anabaptist Theology,” St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (2023), https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/AnabaptistTheology
- “Baptism, Postliberal and Anabaptist Theologies, and the Ambiguity of Christian Practice,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 90, no. 3 (July 2016): 323–44.
- “The Borders of the New Jerusalem and Ours,” The Mennonite (November 13, 2015).
- “Anabaptist Re-Vision: On John Howard Yoder’s Misrecognized Sexual Politics,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 80, no. 1 (January 2015): 153–70.
- “Doing Better: Toward a Post-Yoderian Theology,” Practicing Reconciliation Blog (January 21, 2014).
- Principalities and Powers: Revising John Howard Yoder’s Sociological Theology (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013).
Memberships and Associations
- American Academy of Religion
- Hively Avenue Mennonite Church
Invite AMBS
Invite AMBS is a unique opportunity to invite the faculty and staff of AMBS to come directly to you to address a certain topic. Learn more about Invite AMBS.Possible topics include:
- Anabaptist History and Theology
- Anabaptism today
- The global church
- The Holy Spirit
- Mission after colonialism
Documentary screening: What Happened at Benham West
What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope features stories of life in Elkhart’s predominantly African American Benham West neighborhood — known to many as “the village.” The film includes elders’ experiences of segregation in Elkhart, documents the process of the city’s eventual clearing of the Benham West neighborhood, and names the elders’ hopes for their city. Jamie will host the screening and provide a time of Q&A. View the trailer.