Anna Vogt
Anna Vogt is a Canadian-Colombia resident who works on with MCC, as the Latin American advocacy and context analyst, out of the office of partner Justapaz. She writes about her "perspective changes and the translation shifts" over at: https://thellamadiaries.com/
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Anna Vogt
Faith and Belonging
By Anna Vogt
September 18, 2017
If Convivium is about building community, Anna Vogt is the embodiment of the convivial ideal. A Canadian who now calls Colombia home, her Mennonite tradition and partnership with the Mennonite Central Committee - MCC make her a welcome voice for a lifelong, faith-fueled journey of building shared space between people.
While theologically-shaped faith commitments can and do shape and inform political positions, we have found that the political advocacy positions emerging from the Colombian Mennonite church context have a qualitatively different feel than other forms of political advocacy: the fundamental agenda is the transformation of social situations based on Biblical beliefs, not partisan allegiances Colombian Mennonite churches seek to understand root causes, and work in a nonviolent way to bring about social change that is not rooted in the political power plays that are the norm in Colombia The two years that I lived in the community, therefore, were full of advocacy actions and meetings to attempt to pressure the State to actually fulfill the court order