That an adult convert to a religious community of plain people would look more generously on the group than someone who grew up in one and then left it is not surprising. Robert Rhodes, author of ...

I worry that it might be impossible to share with anyone who doesn’t have a background similar to Rhoda Janzen’s the wicked pleasure that comes from a glance at her title: Mennonite in a Little Black ...

Competition in contemporary praise music has cost traditional church choirs some singers, but the West Coast Mennonite Men’s Chorus will demonstrate why choral singing will never— or at least should ...

The Allegan Area Arts Council and Friends Committee of Allegan District Library are teaming up to present an evening with author Dr. Rhoda Janzen. Janzen, a Hope College professor of English and ...

Rhoda Janzen writes with wit and fondness of growing up in a “painfully uncool”, but happy and supportive community of Mennonites; they’re the less picturesque cousins of the better-known Amish people ...

Rhoda Janzen's book is a personal memoir of a tough time in her life. It is sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, and definitely worth reading. WARNING: most men would likely take umbrage at her ...