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Didn't God give humankind curiosity and a desire to explore? How can we fulfill that desire in the modern world? I don't see space exploration as anything but a natural extension of humanity's desire to explore. It's all God's universe, and it's all going to end at the end of time anyway. Why should...

The Flemish background people often have a last name of Friesen, oh? This was the opposite of what I thought. That the Flemish had last names of Jantz, Koehn, Dirks, Schmidt, Voth, Wedel, to name a few, and the Frisians had last names of Friesen, Dueck, Giesbrecht, Unruh, Warkentin, Hoeppner, Rempe...

Skirts and shirts? Those are a no-no, and a holdeman girl caught by another holdeman when wearing a skirt and shirt or some other "deviant" form of dress would be questioned (not like interrogation, though, Holdemanism isn't a cult despite what a lot of people think) Jumpers? What do you m...

Josh, how strict are the Holdeman Mennonites about associating with other anabaptists. I know people will sometimes give me a hard time from other churches doctrinally but will the church forbid me having dinner with friends who are members of churches outside the holdemans for example? what is the...

Sounds like what was done in the Mennonite Brethren congregation I grew up in, only I think that the program participants were known before the service started. It was called "Christian Endeavor" We have one of those once a month as well. "C.E. Program" organized by a rotating s...

I'm going to attempt to answer these questions as best I can. Im familiar with conservative Mennonite churches , how do holdeman Mennonites compare to conservative Mennonites culturally? Most people in the Holdeman church are of "Russian Mennonite" descent. The "dress code" or &q...