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Three Mennonite librarians discuss depictions of Amish & plain groups in media and pop culture. Hosted by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger, & Tillie Yoder

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06/01/2025

[note: this posted to our Instagram on 12/31... but did not sync to Facebook! Belatedly posting it now!]

Sneaking in just under the wire to post about our two holiday bonus episodes and 2024 favorite things! We released two eps in December, the first on the movie Christmas at the Amish Bakery (available on Prime) and the second a recap of what we enjoyed reading, watching, and listening to in 2024.

We are in the midst of planning and recording for Season 7, which will kick off in February! A Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and happy 2025 to all our listeners, we appreciate you all so much. 🎉

17/10/2024

In what is new record for our social media, we have accidentally waited over a month to post about our season 6 wrap up and conversation with Tillie about her experience leading a study abroad term in Ecuador. If you haven’t listened to it yet, consider this announcement for you!

We are in the midst of planning and prep for season 7! We hope to post two episodes in December with holiday / end of year content, with the official launch of season 7 launch in February. Season 7 will be a mix of interviews and content, so if you have recommendations please send them our way!

28/08/2024

As usual, a bit late with our announcements… but a new ep posted last week! In it, we chat with Addie Liechty Kogan (), about social justice, activism, potluck foods and much much more.

We will be back next week with our season 6 finale, featuring the return of Tillie!

15/08/2024

Our episode with Marlene Epp, discussing her new book, Eating Like a Mennonite, dropped last week! We chat the impossibility of defining Mennonite food, gendered expectations, cookbooks, and so much more.

29/07/2024

Our latest episode is available now! Tune in for a conversation with the hosts of the podcast, Naomi and Rebecca. We loved chatting with them, and so appreciate them coming on and sharing their stories with us. We also strongly recommend you check out the Uncovered podcast to learn more about topics like Wisconsin v Yoder and Amish schooling! Check out the show notes for links.

15/07/2024

Our latest episode is available now! We chat with about food writing, food memories, and being a reporter. We also discuss what it was like writing Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of Michael “MJ” Sharp. Links to the book and other bits of Marshall’s writing are in the show notes.

03/07/2024

New episode! In our latest ep, we chat with Elizabeth Miller, director of the Institute for the Study of Anabaptism and the Mennonite Historical Library. We chat with Elizabeth about her current work, as well as her years working with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Colombia.

16/06/2024

Our latest ep is available now! In this ep, we chat with Kaleb Wyse, from . Wyse Guide is a brand dedicated to sharing tips on gardening, recipes, home decor, and more. We talk about Iowa, sour kraut salad, the Wyse Guide origin story, Christmas, and much more!

03/06/2024

Ep 3 of season 6 posted last week- a conversation with Bluffton University professor Marathana Prothro on the Enneagram! This ep veers a bit away from our usual subject matter but we hope you enjoy. We give a brief overview of the types before diving into the purpose of the enneagram, benefits of knowing your type, and much more. We’d love to hear your thoughts and questions on the Ennegaram! Give us an excuse to revisit this topic again in a future season 😀

*image courtesy of Bluffton university.

21/05/2024

Our first interview ep of season 6, with historian Steve Nolt, is available now! Tune in to learn about Steve’s favorite potluck foods, Pietism, what interesting questions Steve has received about the Amish and so much more.

03/05/2024

We are back! Our season 6 intro came out on Wednesday. We provide a Tillie update, recap some recent reads, and dive into our plans for the new season. For season 6, we are planning on another “mini” season of 10ish episodes, focused on interviews with various Anabaptists on various topics. Our next ep, an interview with Steve Nolt, will come out on May 15.

08/03/2024

Season 5 has officially wrapped, and Abby and Erin and already working on Season 6 plans! (Tillie will be back by the end of season 6, but as a reminder is busy leading a study around term in Ecuador!)

We hope to launch S6 sometime in April, with a series of conversations and interviews with interesting Mennonite-affiliated individuals. If you have suggestions for people we should talk to, please let us know!

06/02/2024

As is apparently now typical, we are a bit delayed in telling you about it on socials, but our latest episode came out a couple weeks ago!

It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to get to talk to author Sofia Samatar about her latest book, The White Mosque, which is part memoir of her experiences as a Mennonite, part travel log sharing her journey through Ukraine to learn about the Ak Metchet Mennonites, part historical tendrils and fascinating tangents.

Ep available now!

19/01/2024

Our latest episode came out last week, but we hope you're behind, because we accidentally posted the wrong file! 😳

Apologies to anyone who listed to the MennoBrarains Un-Edited and thanks to those who alerted us. We've re-published the episode so that the correct one is now available.

In this ep we cover the movie S*x Drive, available to watch on Peacock. We chat road trips, Amish mechanics, cringey teen relationships and more.

29/12/2023

Whew, we have been extra bad at social media during Season 5! Since our last post there have been 2 new episodes, one covering Amish episodes of Law & Order SVU and X-Files, and another a conversation with Mennonite historian John D Roth on his most recent book, A Mennonite College for Everyone(?).

While the book, and a lot of our conversation, focuses on Goshen College, we hope you will all tune in for this chat on inclusion, diversity, the myth of Mennonite exceptionalism, and what it means to be Mennonite or a Mennonite institution.

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