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How to spot a Mennonite

EDITOR'S NOTE: This little post has somehow become the most popular thing I have ever written, as well as the first time I have gotten blowback on my blog. The blowback was about the racism that is happening in some Mennonite churches against those who don't share the heritage I describe. I wanted to add a note addressing this, because otherwise my post could be seen as encouraging this kind of discrimination.

To be clear, I see being Mennonite as both an ethnic heritage and a Christian denomination. You can be a Mennonite because you joined a church and subscribe to Mennonite beliefs and/or you can be a Mennonite because you were born into a Mennonite family (in which case, you may not even have religious beliefs). This is possible because of the unique history of Mennonites: what began as a purely religious movement became a culture and ethnicity as the people who started the movement joined together from their different countries of origin and separated themselves from the …

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Today I took my first-ever antidepressant.

It's not something I ever thought I would do, which is a little bit funny to say, as a person who dealt with depression for a significant portion of her life.

Back then my depression was rooted in my beliefs about myself. I thoroughly believed that I was worthless, unloveable, annoying, stupid, ugly, and a general drain. Pretty depressing. I never had a medical diagnosis or took drugs, but I did see counsellors and do a whole lot of work to painstakingly teach myself that what my heart knew to be true was not actually true.

This time it was different. This time, I was just stressed out.

Normally I don't mind a bit of stress. I like being busy, and a little stress fuels me, but over the past year and a half, it's become too much. I can't seem to handle it anymore. Every little challenge makes me want to curl up and run away. My brain feels tight, like a ball of elastic bands.

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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau

One of the things I said yesterday is that, in a post-Trump world, we have a responsibility. We are responsible to stand for what is right and to encourage those in power to do the same. I am starting with a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau. If you are Canadian, consider sending him a letter of your own. If you are American, write to your reasonable Republican leaders. If you are from any other country in the world, write to your leaders. Trump can be held back, if we do it together.

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

As you know, Donald Trump was just elected the president of the United States. Of course you know. Yesterday, you congratulated him on his win and have invited him to Canada.
In your statement, you said that we have "shared values" with the United States. I am giving you a lot of benefit of the doubt that you were referring to the values of an ideal America - not of our values compared with the values America signed off on by electing Trump. Because Canada cannot eve…

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