This article is part of a series on Dear Princess. If you would like to start at the beginning of the series, click here.When it comes to guilt and condemnation, Dear Princess delivers in spades. In today’s post, we will be working through Chapter 13 (for those of you that are following along in your […]

For those of you that are just joining us, we are continuing our examination of Dear Princess. To start at the beginning, click here.If you’ve spent any time around conservative Mennonites, you are probably aware that they take “The Word of God” very seriously, especially when it refers to outward appearance, which I estimate to […]

​If you are just joining us, this is the fourth part of a series on Dear Princess. To start at the beginning, click here. A major staple of Dear Princess, and all books of its ilk, is cautionary tales.These are hair-raising stories of how children and teens (or even adults) failed to obey the admonitions of […]

 WARNING: This article is gut-wrenching in its implications.I couldn’t find it in myself to maintain the customary jovial tone of this blog.​ The teachings I want to address today enable pure evil.If you’re here for the laughs, you won’t find them today. Come back tomorrow.​ But if you’re here to learn WHY I’m doing this to start […]

If you are just joining us, this post is the second of a series. To start at the beginning, click here.  This inaugural series is not intended to be a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the book. Not every part of the book needs to be critiqued.In fact, there are sections scattered throughout that have some good thought. (Trite, […]

If you talk to women who grew up in conservative Anabaptist circles, you will find that a large number of them were given this book as young girls, often around the age of puberty, or even before, by well-intentioned adults who wanted to see them grow up to be successful women.Unfortunately, the definition of success […]