New Year’s Cookies on New Year’s Eve!
My mom had not made deep-fried Mennonite treats in a very long time… until this past summer, when she made roll kuchen with great success. “You’ve […]
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Creativity, Wonder, Haikus, and Visiting Menno Simons’ Hometown: 5 Questions with Brent Manke
Brent Manke is a writer, graphic designer, and careful observer of life, who lives with his wife and three daughters in Steinbach, Manitoba. He writes […]
Third Session at Menno Conference! MHSC: Mennonite Identities
(Feature photo: Richard Lougheed, Christine Kampen Robinson, Brian Cooper, Chair Ken Warkentin; Jeremy Wiebe at the podium.) When it was time for lunch, well, it […]
(I felt gleeful & encouraged!) MHSC: Contesting Convention
(Feature photo: Laureen Harder-Gissing, Andrew E. Dyck, Paul Doerksen, Chair Carlos Colorado; Janis Thiessen at the podium.) Last Saturday, we attended the final day of […]
Fiercely Independent! Reading ‘On My Own: A Journey From A Mennonite Childhood’
What happens when an intellectual is born into a conservative Mennonite family still dealing with the residual effects of the trauma they experienced as a […]