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 ...

When I first heard about “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress,” (Holt, 256 pages, $22) I was aghast. Not because author Rhoda Janzen poked fun at the subculture I was born and raised in — goodness knows ...

At first, the worst week of Janzen's life—she gets into a debilitating car wreck right after her husband leaves her for a guy he met on the Internet and saddles her with a mortgage she can't ...

The public is invited to the program: “Dis(clothes)ure: Stories of Mennonite Attire” on Sunday May 15, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Rd, Harleysville. Enjoy discussions ...

The Mennonite vs. Amish distinction is difficult to pinpoint for most outsiders since they both represent some of the most conservative groups in the modern world. Although closely related in ...

Everybody knows the morning-after embarrassment of the mysteriously random sex dream. My most unlikely dream partners have been Dan Quayle and an Amish farmer. While I'm at a loss to explain the first ...

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 ...

Rhonda Janzen was raised as a Mennonite but left the church - until she had to move back in with her parents. They say that bad things happen in threes, and for Rhoda Janzen that was certainly true.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rhoda Janzen is 43 when her life hurtles to a grinding halt. In one disastrous week, her manic-depressive husband Nick leaves her after ...