Octogenarian getting Web savvy

Mennonite Weekly Review has been “putting the Mennonite world together” in print for more than 80 years and about a decade ago began publishing our newspaper content online. Now, we thought it was time to try a new medium.

With this blog we’ll aim to keep living up to that motto, which describes our goals of covering the diversity of Mennonite groups as well as being international in scope.

We hope this blog will be a way for readers to interact more with us, and with news and commentary from the diverse Mennonite world. We’ll sort through a fair bit of the huge amount of Anabaptist-related information on the Internet. We’ll highlight good writing by and about Anabaptists and like-minded folk. We’ll critique problematic writing in the mainstream media, church press and on other blogs, aiming to correct popular misconceptions about various Anabaptist groups.

Dora Dueck of Winnipeg, Man., won our naming contest. Her creativity didn’t come as a surprise, as she writes a blog with the intriguing title of “borrowing bones.”

Paul Schrag, editor, and I plan to post at least once a week each and hope to be joined later by our board members, columnists and other regular writers.

We welcome your feedback as we embark upon this new endeavor. — Celeste Kennel-Shank