It has recently come to my attention that there are those among us who feel that the Mennonite Church leadership is not truly diverse. You know who you are. Faced with such criticism, I cannot help but think that these people have allowed themselves to become worldly and have forgotten – or, worse, never learned … More Talking about Diversity
I suspect that every ethnic group that has its own culinary traditions has some foods that are loved unconditionally by all who claim the heritage. These are the foods that we’re proud to share with outsiders and declare as part of our collective identity. For those of us Mennonites who sojourned in Russia for awhile, … More Summer Borscht, and the Living is Easy
This was the first of my blog posts that discussed a work of Mennonite literature. As with the Complicated Kindness post, I focus here on the intersections of Mennodom and alcohol, though there really aren’t a lot of intersections in this work. Still, I felt that the book had been reviewed enough in the general … More The Granddaddy of all Mennonite Literary Cocktails
This post first published in July, 2015 under a different title (But am I a real Mennonite?). In addition to changing the title, I have also corrected a typo. Every now and then a blog post gets derailed. This one, for instance, was intended to be a little glossary of Mennonite insider language, a guide … More The Great Mennonite Identity Crisis
