And When They Shall Ask: A Movie Review
And When They Shall Ask is a Mennonite docu-drama created in 1983. Thirty-four years later, I’ve finally watched it! The cover is a little on […]
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A Mennonite Abortion Recipe?
It’s no secret that Mennonite families were historically pretty large. I’d always assumed that before modern birth control, Mennonites simply accepted whatever amount of children they […]
Reading One of those Family History Books You Probably Threw Out
So… I’ve begun reading some of my family history books. First, I chose the slim, self-published book by Nettie (Unrau) Zacharias, which I found when […]
A Heaping Helping of Preservings
You caught me. I’m the one stashing those back-issues of Preservings… not under the mattress, but on my bedside table. On the kitchen island. On […]
20 Minutes in Reinland
On Thanksgiving weekend, we spent a night in Neubergthal, and traveled the backroads checking out a few of the remaining Mennonite villages. We were advised […]