[1] He was baptized in 1909 at his home congregation of East Union Amish Mennonite Church, where Sanford Calvin Yoder was pastor.
[1] Hershberger then pursued further education, first in the form of an undergraduate degree at Hesston College and then a MA and PhD at the University of Iowa, where his dissertation was on Quaker Politics in Colonial America.
[1] All the while he worked first as a teacher at Heston Academy (1923–24) and then began his long career as a professor of history, sociology, and ethics at Goshen College (1925–1966).
[3] It was in part due to Jesus' call to love one's enemies that Hershberger made one of his most foundational distinctions.
it was important to note that in this way, his committee work and church responsibility were the embodiment of his ethical theology.