Menno-Nightcaps

Menno-Nightcaps
Author: S. L. Klassen
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1771513594

A satirical cocktail book featuring seventy-seven cocktail recipes accompanied by arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices. At last, you think, a book of cocktails that pairs punny drinks with Mennonite history! Yes, cocktail enthusiast and author of the popular Drunken Mennonite blog Sherri Klassen is here to bring some Low German love to your bar cart. Drinks like Brandy Anabaptist, Migratarita, Thrift Store Sour, and Pimm’s Cape Dress are served up with arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices. Arranged by theme, the book opens with drinks inspired by the Anabaptists of sixteenth-century Europe (Bloody Martyr, anyone?), before moving on to religious beliefs and practices (a little like going to a bar after class in Seminary, but without actually going to class). The third chapter toasts the Mennonite history of migration (Old Piña Colony), and the fourth is all about the trappings of Mennonite cultural identity (Singalong Sling). With seventy-seven recipes, ripping satire, comical illustrations, a cocktails-to-mocktails chapter for the teetotallers, and instructions on scaling up for barn-raisings and funerals, it’s just the thing for the Mennonite, Menno-adjacent, or merely Menno-curious home mixologist.

The Body and the Book

The Body and the Book
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0271035447

"A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.

MFH Back Issue Index

MFH Back Issue Index
Author: Lemar and Lois Ann Mast
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Index to the articles published by Mennonite Family History

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781573227216

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, a book about Christianity, spirituality, and rediscovered faith. Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary," words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace. Blending history, theology, storytelling, etymology, and memoir, Norris uses these words as a starting point for reflection, and offers a moving account of her own gradual conversion. She evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday life—and offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world.

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies
Author: Hugh F. Gingerich
Publisher: Pequea Bruderschaft Library
Total Pages: 992
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1601260180

This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)