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The First shall be First
There are a lot of Firsts among Mennonites. I don't mean firsts like record-breaking athletes, aviation inventors or even the first person...
Quiz of the MennoYear
People often ask me, "How do Mennonites celebrate New Year's Eve"? Not really. I don't think anyone's ever asked me that. But they should...
A Child’s Christmas in Mennoland Pt 2
Post first published in December 2014, appearing here with minor edits. We arrived at my Oma's house somewhere close to noon. She would...
A Child’s Christmas in Mennoland Pt. 1
Last Christmas, I wrote up this nostalgic piece as a sort of Menno-ified version of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales. It's a...
A Cordial for the Choristers
Christmas began with singing in those days. I don’t mean Christmas Day; I mean the Christmas season. It began before the snow fell and...
How the Christmas Cookie Crumbles
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single or married woman in possession of a Mennonite upbringing must be in want of a baking...




