Church politics

A Proper Mennonite Vacation

August 9, 2016

This post was first published in July 2015. But I’ve been on vacation again this year, though once again, not a proper Mennonite vacation like in the days of yore. I’m a little late with this post as I’ve been off on vacation. Yes, a vacation! Given our reputation for hard work and frugality, you … More A Proper Mennonite Vacation

Imagining the AGM as a Cocktail Party

February 14, 2016

This post was first published in January 2015. Shortly after all the glitz and the gemeinshaft of Christmas, we enter into AGM season. We usually do that a bit before Lent as if in a perverse recasting of the Carnevalesque, not a world turned topsy turvy in disorder and subversion, but as a world of … More Imagining the AGM as a Cocktail Party

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A Proper Mennonite Vacation

Imagining the AGM as a Cocktail Party