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Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages
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In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tres Culturas region is a place where Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous Rarámuri people live, forming a crossroad of traditions, languages, and ways of living. A landscape of convergence and divergence, breaking and...
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Russian Mennonites
A Broken Path to Civility
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Walter Braul takes readers on a personal and historical journey into his Mennonite roots. He traces his family’s experiences in Europe and later as immigrants in Canada’s West, and he delineates the political and social context in which...
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Journey With Foolish Trust
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Journey With Foolish Trust is an insightful exploration of Mennonite heritage and faith, blending personal narrative with historical context. Shirley Dyck Fraser begins by sharing the story of her family’s life in rural Canada, offering a glimpse...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada
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In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Reflecting Shekinah
Feminine Images of the Divine and Women's Sense of Self
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In Reflecting Shekinah: Feminine Images of the Divine and Women’s Sense of Self, Barbara Wieler reflects on the nature and significance of the relationship between feminine images of the Divine and the sense of self for women from the Mennonite...
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Me and My House
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Mennonites seemed to need to move somewhere every century, and ME AND MY HOUSE is almost a travelog, as it takes us from one part of Europe to another many kilometres away. As it moves from one generation to another, the nature of life in each...
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Letters From Home
The Elizabeth and Heinrich Thiessen Story
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War, revolution, and the consolidation of Soviet power during the 1920s prompted 21,000 Mennonites to leave the Soviet Union for Canada. Among them were Isaac and John Thiessen. Left behind was their beloved family: three siblings and parents,...
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Not My Kind of Mennonite
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On a cold and snowy night in January 1972, George Peters was shot by his brother-in-law and left to die on a back road in rural Ontario. The investigation and trial of his murder would tell a story that compelled a jury to let his killer walk...
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Sehnsucht: The Story of Grisch.
A Life in Letters
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In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over...
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Choose You This Day
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The Derksen family has come to Wuestenfelde as refugees from Friesland, Mennonites that have fled the persecution of all Anabaptists, primarily due to the debacle of their takeover of Muenster in north Germany. Misguided followers of Melchior...
