Issue: Volume 17 Issue 16

  • Boxing up the Old Colony Mennonites

    In his July 8, 2013 editorial, Dick Benner considers “the trouble with labels.” He says that in our pluralistic society we tend to put people into boxes with a smug “now we know who you are.” This stereotyping, he says, “de-humanizes,” divides and tends to “self-righteousness.” I found it deeply ironic that the very same…