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Schriewa
The
world of Mennonite and Anabaptist bloggers is a wild and exotic one indeed –
which always intrigues me – when and where did we learn to talk like this?
Generally speaking, it seems that Mennonite
(and Amish) blogs can be relegated to six general categories: Recipes, sermons, non-Mennonite church historians, the culturally irate Mennonite,
non-Mennonite tourists taking pics of the cows, horses and barns, and
everything else (my aim is to end up on the latter). I am also a bit bemused that so many of the
largest, best written blogs about Mennonites, really have very little to do
with Mennonites – I mean, I guess I am glad to see others feeling comfortable
and welcome to associate with us – but also feel a bit overwhelmed – couldn’t
they just invent their own label – like Boyd Anabaptists or the Mars Hill Amish? I mean it’s one more group to add to the
differentiation list of definitions – and threatens to overwhelm with their high-impact
websites and polished prose, the already ginger balance between religion and
historic ethnic identity that ethnic Mennonite bloggers face on-line.
