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 ...

Rhoda Janzen was 43 and had been married for 15 years when, after recovering from a serious illness – during which her usually grouchy husband Nick was suddenly uncharacteristically supportive – she ...

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 ...

WALKER, MI -- New York Times Bestselling author Rhoda Janzen says being diagnosed with breast cancer “propelled” her spiritual and psychological growth, but not without a few laughs along the way.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quita Alfred tells how she designed long, dark dresses that chime incongruously with fashion Women Talking, Sarah Polley’s film about women’s responses to a serial rapist within a Mennonite community, ...