Category: mennonite

Ex-Mennonite Mom ‘Born Again’ Joins Modern World, Goes Viral With Unreal Homesteading Skills on Instagram

RuthAnn Zimmerman didn’t realize her sequestered way of life was trending online until after searching the hashtag “homesteading” on Instagram. Soon afterward, hashtag homesteading found her. Born a Mennonite Pennsylvanian—riding horse and buggies, the whole deal—she and her husband, Elvin, inherited a formidable survivalist skillset atypical of most Americans today, worthy of any apocalypse-bound, patriot prepper….


Mennonite Church Changes Stance to One in Favour of LGBTQ Community

One of America’s most outwardly conservative denominations has recently come out in favor of embracing members of the LGBTQ+ community. The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is one of America’s most theologically radical Protestant Christian denominations, with ties to the Amish. Both groups trace the lineage of their faith to 16th-century Anabaptists. Mennonites believe in…


Mennonite Church Changes Stance in Favor of LGBTQ Community

One of America’s most outwardly conservative denominations has recently come out in favor of embracing members of the LGBTQ+ community. The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is one of America’s most theologically radical Protestant Christian denominations, with ties to the Amish. Both groups trace the lineage of their faith to 16th-century Anabaptists. Mennonites believe in…


Amish, Mennonite Communities in Pennsylvania May Have Reached Herd Immunity: Medical Center

Amish and Mennonite communities in a Pennsylvania county may have reached immunity for the CCP virus, according to a local health official. Allen Hoover, an administrator at the Parochial Medical Center in the heart of the Amish community in Lancaster County’s New Holland Borough, said he believes as many as nine in 10 households in the…


Ingratitude Is Tearing at Canada

 Commentary In the early years of the winding and pebbled road of my working life, a sign was hung in the staff room by one of my bosses, a grocer named “Friendly Fred.” I’ve never forgotten its wise but simple message: “Gratitude is the attitude.” It was 1976; I was 17 and happy to earn…