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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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10/07/2025

Our latest episode is a snake draft of [published] Mennonite cookbooks! The Herald Press Trinity pictured here featured prominently in our draft choices. Do you agree with our picks? What did we miss?

Our next ep in our two part Cookbook Series will release on July 23 and focus on non-traditionally-published community cookbooks.

02/07/2025

Continuing our social media catchup: a few weeks ago, our episode covering Holy Matrimony was released. This movie was, as the episode title suggests, inexplicable and weird and very fun to chat about. The premise is that a 12-year-old Hutterite boy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has to marry his brother’s widow (Patricia Arquette) who is also on the run from the law. We chat state fairs, Hutterites, and much much more

25/06/2025

🫣We have once again fallen far behind on our social media posting (and right after getting caught up!) forgive us! This time we will start current and work our way back… Our latest ep came out today, a conversation with Karen Johnson-Weiner, the author of The Lives of Amish Women. We chat potlucks, research, and all kinds of things related to Amish Women- and we highly recommend you read Karen’s book if you are interested in the subject.

Note that we did have some audio issues with this recording, and it is a bit more “echoey” than usual.

06/05/2025

Our latest episode is a discussion on the book Reconnected by Carlos Whittaker (). In the book, Carlos reevaluated his relationship with technology by spending 7 weeks without it- including 2 weeks with an Amish family near Mt Hope, OH. We chat about cell phones, which tidbits of advice from the book we might take (or not take), and much more!

Our next episode comes out next week, a snake draft of Mennonite poets!

28/04/2025

Episode 6 of our latest season we covered “Only in America” with Larry the Cable Guy, in which Larry spends time with an Old Order River Brethren family. We chat sauerkraut, Brethren, redneck jokes and much much more.

Also, with this post, we are caught up on social media!! Our next episode drops Wednesday, discussing the book Reconnected by Carlos Whittaker.

23/04/2025

Episode 5 of our current season was a snake draft! We drafted our favorite/most memorable Christian media from our childhoods, which included a wide variety of books, movies, music, and singing objects (hymnals AND vegetables!) What did we miss that you would have drafted?!

15/04/2025

Continuing our social media catch up: episode 4 of season 7 was an interview with JB Miller! We chatted about Pinecraft and Sarasota, working with filmmakers researching the Amish, growing up gay in the Conservative Mennonite church and much more! We hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as we enjoyed chatting with JB!

10/04/2025

Our third ep of the season covered Rosanna of the Amish, a semi-biographical book in which author Joseph W Yoder recounts the story of his mother’s life. We chat early Amish works, corn husking parties, and Amish propaganda. Have you read this book? Let us know what you thought.

04/04/2025

Continuing our social media catch up…. Our 2nd episode of season 7 we covered the movie The Radicals! The Radicals movie focuses on Michael and Margaretha Sattler (the Anabaptist power couple), starting with their departure from the Catholic church, to joining the Anabaptists, to their martyrdom. Have you seen the Radicals? Let us know your thoughts on the movie and our discussion!

01/04/2025

Oh hiiiiii we are back with season 7, which actually began in February. We’ve always been kinda bad at running our social media accounts, but this is a new record 😬 Though our 5th ep of season 7 is dropping tomorrow, we will start our social media posts from the beginning! Season 7, episode 1 is an overview of the season, some media recommendations, and an introduction to the “snake draft” which will be revisited a few times this season (including tomorrow’s ep, a snake draft of Christian media for children). Did your favorite snack get drafted? Does anyone have a weirder favorite snack than Tillie?

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!

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