Intrigued, I asked, “His plain people allow him to spend nights in the room?”
“An exception has been made, of course. Bishop John Preduch allows Isaiah to grieve.”
I knew very little about Mennonites and their way of life. My ignorance didn’t cause me to judge them in a poor action, though. Instead, I relished knowledge of their differences. Everything about them. Deriving from the Netherlands during the Protestant Reformation, Mennonites spread to Belgium and northern Germany. The first Mennonite community was established in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1683. Being a Reformation religion, Mennonites battled Catholicism. Having a closed community, being self-reliant, and practicing adult baptism posed ideological roots of their Netherland people. Most communities relied on farming resourc
