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 ...

Hollie’s Dress is a peek into the life of this Mennonite girl. It’s a conversation between a mother and her daughter. When I first met Hollie three years ago, she was an energetic 11-year-old, running ...

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 ...

Rhoda Janzen begins “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home” with a trifecta of midlevel tragedies: a hysterectomy, an automobile accident and a failed marriage. None is quite epic ...

Judith Flanders delights in Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen, a memoir that finds humour and wisdom in a sect renowned for plain living Rhoda Janzen does for the memoir what Bill ...