Reading Carl-Klassen’s book: Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
Right from the start, the title of this book had me: Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders: A Century of Stories from Mexico’s Mennonite Villages, by […]
Books and Film
Martens’ ‘Lineage’ helps me understand my own
I want to read this right before going to sleep, so I can dream about five centuries of wandering Mennonites. This is exactly the kind […]
I read her diary. Now what?
I told you that I was going to read Anna Baerg’s diary, and then I fell down some rabbit holes, but I’m on the other […]
Reading the Diary of Anna Baerg
Not the Diary of Anne Frank… which, it has just occurred to me, I have never actually read either. As I have tried to start […]
A second Baerg-related rabbit hole: church splits
Yeah, at this point I still hadn’t started reading the Diary of Anna Baerg. My mind went off in this direction instead: I feel like […]