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Light on Silence: A podcast preview
Last September, I attended the wedding of friends in Morden, Manitoba. It was a picturesque prairie day as my wife and I drove the highways past beautiful crops ready for harvest and scattered farmhouses, some with children playing happily in the yard. As we drove along, preparing to celebrate love, I thought for the first…
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What makes us Mennonite?
“Talking about ‘a’ Mennonite identity seems passé,” wrote Marlene Epp in 2018. Still, Epp, a member of a pre-eminent family of Mennonite historians, is more than willing to talk about Mennonite identity. Discussion of what holds us as Mennonites together does indeed seem clichéd. And impossible. We range from buggy drivers to prominent politicians. Our…
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Fairy tales at the Fringe
Hansel and Gretel—I mean Peter and Tina—enter the woods and end up at a house made entirely of waffles and white sauce, where they are led by their evil stepmother to pick rhubarb. And when they need to find their way home, they follow Peter’s trail of knaczot (sunflower seeds). This is The Mennonite Fairytale,…
