Am I Mennonite? - Introduction and Reflection
Hello and Welcome! I am a 30 year old genderqueer woman living with chronic illnesses and mental health difficulties. I grew up with a love of writing and have been blogging on and off since I was a young teen. In this latest iteration of my written thoughts, I’d like to focus primarily on my journey into discovering my identity and developing confidence in who I know I am. I grew up in a conservative Mennonite community in Rural Manitoba. I knew myself and my peers to be from the same Mennonite background, and considered that background to be the societal norm. It wasn’t until my family started attending church in the City of Winnipeg that I began to understand that my Mennonite Christianity was in some ways very different from the mainstream Christianity of my new peers. They had a greater understanding of the secular world than I did. They read books and watched movies that were forbidden to me, and most of them attended Winnipeg public schools and had non-Christian friends. Whe...