Mennonite Meets Mr. Right
A Memoir of Faith, Hope, and Love

A spiritual journey from Mennonite (preacher's daughter) to humanist (scholar with PhD) to Pentecostal (with a bit of skepticism). An unlikely journey but nevertheless that's what this book is about. The switch to Pentecostalism coincided with a new romantic relationship and a bout with cancer. The......more

I read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and chuckled my way through it, with some familiarity, although Janzen's Mennonite experience does not mirror my own. (To wit, she was actually raised Mennonite Brethren, a separate denomination; most modern American Mennos don't grow up speaking German; I was......more

You can find my full review here: [URL not allowed] Memoirist Rhoda Janzen says, “What a relief it is that we don’t have to be good at religion in order to seek God! We don’t even have to have a strong sense of belief. All we need is the desire to believe.” In her second memoir......more

I had such high hopes for this book. When I saw that Ms. Janzen was writing another book, I put it onto my wish list as soon as it was listed on Amazon. I really enjoyed Mennonite In A Little Black Dress. Even for the high Kindle book price, I decided to splurge on this book. I didn't realize when I......more

I really enjoyed Rhoda Janzen's Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. For those of you who don't know, Rhoda is a professor of English and creative writing at a college in Michigan. She grew up in the Mennonite community but had moved away from that religion. After her divorce (her husband turned out t......more