On June 28, during the Second Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Theovlogy's admin Perdian Tumanan interviewed Ben Goossen, a Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Ben has published his first book entitled Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2017). In this interview, Ben touches on the importance of studying history and why it matters for theologians and religious scholars to study history.