Recently I was at a literary festival in Mantova, Italy. Most guest writers were Italian, but there were a handful from other countries, and as it turned out I was the only Canadian. I figured that ...
Without realizing it, the author of a new book about Mennonites and migration in Canadian literature grew up surrounded by some of the stories that would eventually inform his choice to become an ...
On a chilly morning this past January, the writer Lucinda J. Kinsinger strapped her baby daughter into her car seat and drove two-plus hours from her home in rural Oakland, Maryland, to Waynesboro, ...
For a long time, Mennonite literature has been characterized by an old view of that group’s move from farm to city, from using the German language to English, and from living in a simple rural past to ...
Church leaders, members of the Mennonite community and scholars from as far as Indonesia and Ethiopia will gather next week at Elizabethtown College for a conference exploring the history and global ...
When people think of art, Mennonites might not always be the first group to come to mind. Yet as Magdalene Redekop points out in Making Believe: Questions About Mennonites and Art, creativity through ...