My Mennonite Identity
by J. Daniel Hess
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Laura Weaver
I enjoyed your article immensely, Dan. I identify with much of it: I grew up in Lancaster Conference, and I graduated from Eastern Mennonite (several years before you did). I'll read your article again, I know, and I'll remember that last paragraph!
Robin Gingerich
Thank you for this articulate article with so many vivid details of Mennonite life. I was honored to have you as my professor at Goshen College. Now I'm trying to be Mennonite, and learn what that means in Lithuania. It's a small world after all.
Dan Hess
Laura, I did not know you grew up in Lancaster Conference. Has your sojourn been similar to mine in any way? You live here in Indiana, right? Let's find each other.
Dan Hess
Thanks for writing, Robin. I suppose that your growing up in Iowa and then living for decades in Lithuania have shaped a journey quite different from mine. I'm pleased that you have been able to contribute so very well at Lithuania Christian College.
Laura Weaver
Yes, Dan, I'm way down here in Evansville, and yes, it would be great to talk. There are many similarities in our sojourns, including going to grad school and getting a Ph.D. Some differences: my family started out in the Old Order Mennonite (horse and buggy) church, and since the 1960s I've lived outside a Mennonite community (because of graduate school and then my job). But I'm still a Mennonite; I joined and attended a Presbyterian Church for a while, but I never felt Presbyterian. That's why I like the marvelous images in your opening and ending paragraphs.