How Mennonite are you? Give yourself one point for each of the following typical Mennonite things you’ve done. Add up your score. How many points did you get?
- Been baptized (not as an infant)
- Sang Hymn 606
- Attended an evening service
- Dated/married a cousin
- Ate vereneki
- Ate formavorscht
- Ate schoofly pie
- Attended a Mennonite World Conference
- Taught Sunday School
- Speak Plautdietsch
- Speak Pennsylvania Dutch
- Visited the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach
- Been to Lancaster
- Attended Bible College
- Been a Conscientious Objector
- Attended a wedding reception in a church basement
- Milked a cow
- Been to Goshen
- Participated in a foot-washing service
- Been on a church committee
- Highlighted verses in your Bible
- Memorized Bible verses
- Shopped at an MCC Thrift Store
- Shopped at a Ten Thousand Villages Store
- Ate at Chicken Chef
- Shunned someone
- Excommunicated someone
- Read the Schleitheim Confession
- Read something by Menno Simons
- Read Martyrs Mirror
- Read the entire Bible
- Researched your ancestry
- Debated with a Calvinist
- Read a family history book
- Written a family history book
- Wore suspenders
- Wore a bonnet (duak)
- Read a Miriam Toews book
- Made a quilt
- Used a horse and buggy
- Pointed out someone else’s sins
- Gossiped
- Participated in a church split
- Slept in a housebarn
- Visited a Mennonite historical site
- Chastised someone for not working hard enough
- Sang in four-part harmony
- Attended a Bible camp
- Used star anise in a recipe
- Told a Mennonite joke
(photo credit: Robert Linsdell/CC)