WINNIPEG, MB
Whereas students and writers collect at Canadian Mennonite College this weekend for the 2025 Mennonite/s Writing Convention, one other gathering is happening throughout town with a wholly totally different function.
“Mennonite writers are the bane of our existence,” mentioned occasion organizer Corny Reimer. “If it wasn’t for all these writers airing our soiled laundry on a regular basis, we’d have issues an entire lot simpler round right here. Subsequently, we’ve determined to take a detailed have a look at all these students and writers gathering there at CMU. Appears suspicious. The very last thing we want is one other Rudy or Miriam or Rhoda Janzen on our palms.”
The Mennonite/s Shunning Convention, as Reimer is asking it, has gathered a listing of all of the presenters on the Writing Convention and will likely be excommunicating the worst offenders.
“We’ve bought your names, e-book titles, and church membership information,” mentioned Reimer. “Any literature that’s in the slightest degree crucial of Mennonite traditions goes to get a critical look by the authorities. Our foremost concern is to ensure the writing doesn’t supply any new views or problem us to assume in another way in any method.”
The shunning committee mentioned in addition they purchased a duplicate of “some e-book by Patrick Friesen,” which they plan to make use of as a “how-to” handbook.
