She's a Mennonite, and her husband is a Mennonite pastor.
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How should they be Mennonite, and how, specifically, should they be Mennonite women, when they have never read the Bible for themselves?
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Even their own Mennonite congregation put out a statement saying that while the denomination opposes gay marriage, "not every congregation" or Mennonite does. Mrs.
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Recently, many of the Mennonite churches in Lancaster County, Pa., decided to split from Mennonite Church, USA, which has chosen to allow openly gay members.
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A nonprofit leader and a Mennonite — her husband is a Mennonite pastor — Ms. King supports progressive ideas including Medicare for all and debt-free public college.
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She identifies as a "secular Mennonite" and loves to sit at the old piano on the ground floor of her home and sing Mennonite hymns with her mother.
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Growing up in a small community where everyone I knew was Mennonite, I had expected that American soldiers in Vietnam would be mean, like the playground bullies occasionally found in even Mennonite communities.
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The riddle of a Mennonite megachurch became my intellectual obsession.
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Jess King, a progressive Mennonite who was endorsed by Sen.
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They only speak Plautdietsch, the language of the Mennonite colonies.
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Odgaard, 64, the daughter of a Mennonite minister, was devastated.
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I live in a fairly small religious community; it's very Mennonite.
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In Steinbach, we stopped at MJ's Kafé for Mennonite comfort food.
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She wasn't some modest Mennonite housewife, subject to her husband's will.
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He relies on small grants from local foundations and Mennonite organizations.
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Miriam Toews's novel "Women Talking," about Mennonite victims of sexual violence.
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The Mennonite volunteers working in Sinjar start their day with calisthenics.
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She is a member of a very liberal, very nurturing Mennonite church.
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My maternal grandmother, Mildred Rosenberger Wieder, proudly owned her Germanic-Mennonite heritage.
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By 1600 there were at least six Mennonite groups in the country.
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A home birth attendant beloved by Mennonite women is facing felony charges.
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Nolt said many people in the Mennonite community are helping and offering prayers.
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They are Amish buggies, not Mennonite — although Mennonites do live in the area.
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It has three public schools and a two-year Mennonite college, Hesston College.
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There's little about Ohio's Columbus Mennonite Church that marks it as a sanctuary.
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Consequently, the Belize Mennonite community has remained largely out of the public eye.
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I've watched videos made by Mennonite teenagers, by hippie grandmas, by immigrant families.
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It's a world away from the small Mennonite town of her childhood, Steinbach, Manitoba.
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An earlier version of this article misidentified the location of the Mennonite colony Chortitza.
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Krause was last seen leaving her home within a Mennonite compound on January 18.
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"The bikers are getting ready to deliver the Amish, the Mennonite," he told me.
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Nonetheless, Baehrel refused to provide information or corroboration—the Mennonite farmer, the seafood guy.
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When her rancher host in Mexico says that his Mennonite neighbors have poisoned their own wells with fertilizer such that "almost every family has someone dying of cancer," Schwartz, unbelievably, declines to fact-check his claim or, apparently, speak to a single Mennonite.
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It follows a shy Mennonite girl from Ohio, Susie (Johnson), as she joins the troupe.
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Funeral services are scheduled for Friday at Vickeryville Old Order Mennonite Church, the Daily News reported .
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Amish and Mennonite farmers breed and sell camels for upwards of $26,27 each, says Abdul-Wahab.
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Though there are other Mennonite colonies nearby, they will not protect Molotschna's women from its men.
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After meeting Espinal, the congregants of Columbus Mennonite voted overwhelmingly in favor of taking her in.
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In 2001, Mennonite Church USA, to which Lindecrantz's congregation belongs, passed a resolution opposing capital punishment.
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Toews first heard about it through the "Mennonite grapevine," and the story wouldn't release its claws.
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Searching for affordable farmland, Mennonite families first arrived in Penn Yan from Lancaster, Pa., in 1973.
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I also reached out to experts on Amish and Mennonite culture, who spoke of two factors.
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The village also has a mosque, but it is much smaller than the Mennonite prayer hall.
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"It was a wholesale warehouse for Lancaster County's Amish and Mennonite general stores," Mr. Mason said.
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Years earlier, she had left the Reformed Mennonite faith of her childhood and converted to Islam.
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Mahlon Hurst, an Old Order Mennonite who owns a sawmill in Penn Yan, a hub in the state's largest horse and buggy settlement of perhaps 1,000 buggies, organizes buggy safety workshops for Mennonite teens, including comprehensive buggy driving sessions for eighth graders, in a local parking lot.
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Based on real events, Women Talking sits in on a meeting of Mennonite women living in a remote Bolivian colony as they debate whether or not to flee after finding out that some of the women were being drugged and raped by fellow male Mennonite members.
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Clay Zimmerman, a minister with the Farmington Mennonite Church, spoke to the Post-Dispatch about Thursday's crash.
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Mr McCartney thinks Waterloo's tech firms benefit from traditions of collaboration established by the area's Mennonite groups.
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It encompassed 400 congregations (including Columbus Mennonite) and comprised 60,13-70,000 participants, according to anthropologist Hilary Cunningham.
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It's evident that she respects how much her mother, Elvira, continues to find comfort in being a Mennonite.
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Colorado's Catholic bishops, despite their theological differences with the back-to-basics Mennonite creed, have backed Ms Lindecrantz.
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In the fictional Molotschna Colony, a group of Mennonite women have gathered in secret to discuss a sin.
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Afterward, there is a freiwilligis , a Mennonite tradition in which friends and relatives tell stories about the departed.
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"There's been no recognition at all," said Unger, who writes a satirical Mennonite blog called The Daily Bonnet.
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STYLES The Look column last Sunday, about Mennonites in Belize, misidentified the location of the Mennonite colony Chortitza.
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Amish PAC is hoping to reach Mennonite voters as well, who are less traditionalist but still deeply conservative.
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The Mennonite Central Committee donated the books, notebooks and pencils, while the high school students volunteered as teachers.
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At Goshen, which is affiliated with the Mennonite Church, Sowers competed in soccer, basketball and track and field.
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Women Talking, the new novel by secular Mennonite Miriam Toews, is not about the ghost rapes of Manitoba.
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Several Amish and Mennonite families would be impacted by the proposed pipeline, which would run under their property.
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We first meet Kathryn in 1930, as a child living in India, where her mother is a Mennonite missionary.
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Elvira brought up a friend who had met a group of Steinbachers on a Mennonite heritage cruise to Ukraine.
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But it also gave her the plot for another novel about teenage girls who flee their repressive Mennonite community.
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"She's just too far removed at this point," said Braun, a senior writer at the bimonthly magazine Canadian Mennonite.
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FIXES A Mennonite blacksmith, following his beliefs, seeks a path to reducing the impact of gun violence in America.
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Ms. Groff, 315, grew up just outside the city, in a Mennonite family that regularly helped to resettle refugees.
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Based on real-life events, the novel explores the aftermath of sustained abuse in a Bolivian Mennonite colony called Molotschna.
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There are Mennonite men who are engaged in a type of soul-searching and needing to know why this happened.
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Kratz went to Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., and Heisey is a product of Messiah College in Grantham, Penn.
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Today, she is a stay-at-home mom of three children and a regular at the nearby Indonesian Mennonite Church.
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She grew up in a conservative Mennonite congregation in Canada, which she chose to leave at the age of 18.
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Columbus Mennonite, on the other hand, needs to maintain relationships with local leaders who help the church with other initiatives.
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She met a Mennonite guy, lapsed like her, a street performer who ate fire and juggled machetes over people's heads.
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My favorite clues are 26A: MENNONITE: [One speaking the language Plautdietsch] and 56A: ARM WRESTLE: [Try to win hands down?
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Some Mennonite buggy owners do race each other, on rural roads while returning from church or the market, he said.
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Her vehicle was found parked at the Farmington Mennonite Church, just 75 yards away from where she lived, police said.
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She was a 1950s Mennonite housewife from Kansas who became a 1960s radical promoting the overthrow of patriarchy and capitalism.
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In 1966, I chose the Mennonite Central Committee in Tam Ky, South Vietnam, in the middle of the war zone.
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In 2005, Mennonite women living in a colony in Bolivia reported waking up bleeding with frayed rope around their wrists.
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C Erik Kratz played in college at Division III Eastern Mennonite in Harrisonburg, Va., about 120 miles southwest of Nationals Park.
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Her refusal is rooted in her Mennonite faith, and it follows prayerful deliberations with her church and pastor in Englewood, Colorado.
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As congregants at Silverwood Mennonite Church chatted around a potluck spread, Yoder, a Republican county commissioner, huddled with Pastor Jeremy Shue.
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Scaling up As his business grew, Abdul-Wahab found the logistical constraints of working with small Amish and Mennonite farms insurmountable.
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Mennonite women come to full and fearsome life in Molotschna; brilliant and angry and quick-witted, impossible to ignore or diminish.
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He is not known to have been devout, though he seems to have sustained connections to a Mennonite community in Amsterdam.
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Isaac Villegas of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship, which rents space at Church of Reconciliation and is co-hosting Rosa in sanctuary.
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Sergeant Kennett has been assigned to work with the growing Amish and Mennonite populations in central New York on traffic issues.
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Wilhelm Lategahn, a non-Mennonite schoolteacher, came to Rot Front from Germany on a government program to promote the German language.
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Those in Belize, called Old Colony Mennonites, descend from the settlers of Chortitza, the earliest Mennonite colony in the Russian Empire.
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This small city, best-known for its Amish and Mennonite communities, is a welcoming home for immigrants, refugees and their cooking.
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We only occasionally saw the large communities of Mennonite and Mormon sects that had established communities in Chihuahua and Sonora states.
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Baehrel wouldn't let me meet or talk to his friend Terrance, his wife, his Mennonite meat supplier, or his seafood broker.
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With the help of a Mennonite family who sponsored them, they settled in Virginia and opened the Saigon Café in Harrisonburg.
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You can't express your homosexuality, your gayness; it would be the same in the Amish community or the Mennonite community in Philadelphia.
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In one instance, an undocumented immigrant has been living in the Columbus Mennonite Church in Clintonville, Ohio, for more than a year.
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Toews grew up in an unusual Mennonite family, with just two children — both girls — and parents who encouraged critical thought and rebellion.
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And then he decided he didn't like the Mennonite religion, but we still were brought up Brethren, which is also very strict.
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Mr. White, who was raised a Mennonite in rural Kansas, saw just one secular film in a theater before he turned 18.
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Mr. Sharp had come to Congo in 2012 on a Mennonite humanitarian mission, and signed on with the United Nations in 2015.
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UN chief tries to curb peacekeepers' transgressions as US cuts loom Ben Wideman, a Mennonite pastor, paid tribute to his college friend Sharp.
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If a facility was likely, Yoder told Mennonite pastors, maybe it would be best to have it where clergy could minister to detainees.
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On a warm Sunday later that month, about 22018 members of Columbus Mennonite gathered after church to decide whether to give Espinal sanctuary.
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The city, though, is ringed by largely white suburbs — and beyond them a countryside dominated by Amish and Mennonite farmers and crafts people.
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More broadly, their feelings about Ms. Catlin, who is not a Mennonite, help to reveal the lack of maternal care in rural areas.
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Lester Oberholtzer, 50, is Old Order Mennonite, which, along with the Amish, is part of a 7.53th-century Protestant movement known as Anabaptism.
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I was the first Mennonite sent to Tam Ky in late 1966, when the area was already flooded with refugees from fighting nearby.
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The Mennonite volunteers are hoping to encourage more families to come back by cleaning up looted homes, fixing broken windows, and installing doors.
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From 2005 to 2009, the Mennonite colony Manitoba in Bolivia was haunted by a demon, and the demon was raping the colony's women.
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Also within the Mennonite fold are more "acculturated" members who lead conventional urban lives but are guided by what they regard as Biblical principles.
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Arrieta sat afterward in the Cubs' interview room, his piercing eyes, erect posture and thick black beard calling to mind a fierce Mennonite hurler.
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Black was arrested last weekend in a Mennonite camp in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, the Chihuahua Attorney General's office said in a statement.
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My Mennonite neighbor had stepped in after discovering a church member was keeping a donkey and goats penned in squalor in a cramped shed.
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He referred to the practice as "tithing," likening it to his family's donations to their Mennonite church when he was growing up in Iowa.
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Among Amish and Mennonite families, "Almost every one of them has a relative who's been in a serious or deadly buggy accident," said Sgt.
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I grew up in a small Mennonite community in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where Mennonites have been refusing conscription since the Civil War.
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It concerns the women of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia who from 2005 to 2009 were the target of a string of serial rapes.
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But Paul was also a Mennonite; as a conscientious objector, he spent the Second World War at a Civilian Public Service camp in Puerto Rico.
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First, there are now more horse-drawn buggies than ever on New York State's roadways, as Amish and Mennonite populations have surged across the state.
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While progressive Mennonite and Amish groups equip their buggies with battery-operated lights and reflectors, others say religious tenets prevent them from adding safety features.
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Other local outreach efforts include officers assigned by Sheriff Spike to give bicycle and buggy safety presentations at the many local one-room Mennonite schoolhouses.
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Toews, who was raised Mennonite and left the church at 18, depicts the women at the center of the novel with insight, sympathy and respect.
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The kitchen has a propane stove, farmhouse sink and cabinets built by local Mennonite craftsmen; the breakfast area includes a built-in table and bench.
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Pennsylvania stands out for the prevalence of an archaic offshoot of West Central German known as Pennsylvania Dutch, spoken predominantly by Amish and Mennonite communities.
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A book that begins with two spirited sisters and a forward-thinking mother in a Mennonite community was always going to be irresistible to me.
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Forgiveness — like pacifism — is a staple of Mennonite faith, and any woman who declines to forgive her rapist will be endangering her place in heaven.
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In fact, she was barely allowed to drive one growing up in a Mennonite farming family, observing an Amish-like limited acceptance of automobiles and technology.
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But their other options represent significant departures from their Mennonite identities, at least as those identities have been defined by the men who run the colony.
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Related: Photographer Documents the Daily Rhythm of Mexican Mennonite Communities Immigration to Israel, Explored in Two Controversial Photography Projects The World's Best Photojournalism Arrives in London
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Lancaster might be famous for its Amish and Mennonite population, but the town is also bustling with a mix of college students and non-religious families.
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As a Mennonite, Mr. Martin comes from a long tradition of nonviolence and considers his work a form of conscientious objection ("raw" is "war" spelled backward).
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I soon learned that it is hard to find an Amish or Mennonite buggy owner who has not been in some form of accident or mishap.
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Eddie Zimmerman, 58, an Old Order Mennonite, said buggy drivers want fast horses accustomed to distractions alongside and therefore buy former harness racing horses at auction.
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When my family and I first arrived here, we were as out of place as Sherman, living alone in a sea of Amish and Mennonite farmers.
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He also spent some time at Penington Friends House near Union Square, a Quaker boardinghouse, and at Menno House, a Mennonite boardinghouse also near Union Square.
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We weren't animal people when we moved to Lancaster County, even though we'd landed ourselves amongst Amish and Mennonite neighbors whose lives revolved around their herds.
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"Centered in Christ" are the first three words on the homepage of Lancaster Mennonite School; on its international page, faith or religious affiliation is not mentioned.
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In Susie's flashbacks to the Ohio Mennonite farm she grew up on, women sponge off her sick mother as her labored breathing acts as a morbid metronome.
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In a brief introduction to Women Talking, Toews explains that her novel fictionalizes real sexual assaults in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in Bolivia during the early 2000s.
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Espinal's was "a classic case of someone we'd consider to go into sanctuary," according to Joseph Mas, a Cuban refugee, trial attorney, and congregant at Columbus Mennonite.
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After "A Complicated Kindness" was published — it has been translated into 13 languages — she said it would be her first and last word on the Mennonite religion.
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It's also a highly unusual project: a quasi translation of Mennonite hymns into lyrics that are half prayer, half reflected secular yearning (Jernigan is not herself religious).
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In addition to the capturing the tedium of being in a hospital, Toews also includes flashbacks to the sisters' childhood growing up in a rural Mennonite community.
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What will stick with me most is how Toews crafted the women of the Mennonite community, showing their unimaginable strength and grace in such a time of conflict.
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The compound is about 240 miles from the US-Mexico border in an area that's known for its thriving agricultural land and for being a large Mennonite settlement.
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Her father and her sister both died too young, and she sees a certain Mennonite tendency toward sorrow and earthly guilt as bearing some responsibility for their deaths.
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It is based on the real-life horror story of women in an ultraconservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia, who woke up to headaches, bloodied sheets, and bruised bodies.
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On a recent morning, seven Mennonite mothers gathered in Alma Rissler's living room in Penn Yan and spoke in grave terms of a future without Ms. Catlin's services.
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The bus travels only a few hundred yards but continues a long, meandering journey begun nearly 22011 years ago by German-speaking Mennonite Christians fleeing persecution in Europe.
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Food in the Oberholtzer home consists of hearty farm dishes, pie crusts are made from scratch, and clothing is hand sewn, in keeping with generations-old Mennonite traditions.
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UNITED NATIONS — In a village nestled in clouds in the thickly wooded hills of eastern Congo, Michael Sharp, a slight, bespectacled Mennonite from Kansas, looked perfectly at ease.
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Animals don't go to heaven, Salome of the scythe points out, and if Mennonite women are like animals, then it doesn't matter whether they forgive the men or not.
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But seven years later, in 2011, she released "Irma Voth," a book inspired by Toews's debut role in Carlos Reygadas' film about an old-order Mennonite community in Mexico.
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A Cornell professor connected me with Ivan Martin, an Old Order Mennonite who lives in the Finger Lakes area, which has the largest number of buggies in the state.
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The Mennonite belief that Christians should be "in the world but not of it" has fostered a sectarian ethos that prizes self-sufficiency and mutual aid within the group.
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If one were to have access to a car, one would be tempted to leave, but the limited travel range of horses and buggies keeps Mennonite settlements close-knit.
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In the "Clinical Tales" section, an essay called "Travels With Lowell" tells of visiting La Crete, a Mennonite community in Canada populated by Touretters of many intensities and variations.
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"Whether or not our government builds a bigger wall to keep immigrants out, God&aposs church is about breaking down dividing walls," preached Neil Amstutz, pastor of Waterford Mennonite Church.
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Related: Photographer Documents the Daily Rhythm of Mexican Mennonite Communities Soothing GIF Portraits Show the Desert Bedouin of South Sinai E xtremely Claustrophobic Subway Photos Reek of Desperation and Perspiration
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Tim Doty, information security officer at Ephrata National Bank in Lancaster, Pennsylvania—which serves many members of the local Amish and Mennonite communities—also runs a tiny team of two.
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But for Michael Martin, a 250-year-old Mennonite from Colorado Springs, the malleability of glowing metal from a forge's inferno makes it the perfect vehicle for addressing gun violence.
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So I headed to a hay auction in Penn Yan, N.Y., and found groups of Amish and Mennonite farmers gathered there to buy and sell truckloads of locally grown hay.
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More progressive Mennonite and Amish groups have no problem equipping their buggies with battery-operated lights and blinkers, as well as orange triangular signs legally required for slow-moving vehicles.
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This real-life horror story inspired Miriam Toews's scorching sixth novel, "Women Talking," set in the fictional Mennonite colony of Molotschna, where nearly every girl and woman has been raped.
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A Mennonite pastor (Ryan Robbins) determined to sever his community's smuggling alliance with Mexican cocaine cartels is forced into complicity with a mob leader (Peter Outerbridge) to save his family.
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" The individual responses of some members of the church are inspiring: "I know a woman who organized a kind of prayer group for women from all different kinds of Mennonite churches.
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"Paul was not attempting in Romans 13:1-7 to write out a manifesto for Church-State relations for the next two or three millennia," writes Matthew Neufeld, a Mennonite scholar.
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There were photos that friends had hung by my bed of our last (surprisingly violent) round of Mennonite board games and of my misguided attempt to take my cello Christmas caroling.
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The American agricultural giant wanted to buy soybeans from the Mennonite residents, descendants of European peasants who had been carving settlements out of the thick forest for more than 40 years.
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Mr. Bowman successfully represented Conestoga Wood Specialties, a for-profit Pennsylvania company, and its Mennonite owners, who objected on religious grounds to providing coverage to employees for certain types of contraceptives.
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Ryan, 40, studied philosophy and theology and practiced as a Mennonite pastor in Vancouver before heading back home to Lethbridge almost five years ago with his wife, Naomi, and their adopted twins.
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He is the son of a Mennonite farmer who grew hay, grain, peas and canola and raised hogs and cattle in the prairies that lie in the shadows of Alberta ski resorts.
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Local Mennonite carpenters used a dismantled 1003th-century farm to create some of the woody interiors, and a sculpture by the artist Maya Lin will be installed in the lobby this summer.
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Although she remains far away, in a city where she is far more likely to bump into a Tamil Hindu than a Mennonite, Toews still longs for acceptance in her childhood fold.
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Directed by Carlos Reygadas, the movie follows Johan (Cornelio Wall), a husband and father in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico who is tormented by his affair with a neighbor (Maria Pankratz).
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National religious organizations like the Mennonite Central Committee, which opened a Lancaster office in 1935, and Church World Service, which followed in 583, have actively sought to bring refugees to the city.
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"[The investments are] but an extension of what they do almost on a day-to-day basis within the Mennonite community, and that is they loan money to each other," Norman Greenspan said.
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One of the most visible Mennonite initiatives consists of so-called Christian Peacemaker Teams who have won respect by trying to defuse tensions in hot spots like Colombia, Iraq and the West Bank.
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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit in Kansas over a similar rule, on behalf of a Mennonite teacher who was denied payment over her commitment to her church's participation in the BDS movement.
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Having found them on Amish and Mennonite farms in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Missouri, he set up Desert Farms, which sells camel products through its website and via health food shops and supermarkets.
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A few years after her experience in "Silent Light," she wrote a novel, " Irma Voth ," about a Mennonite teen-ager who gets involved in a film shoot near her family's farm in Mexico.
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