Some are Mennonite-specific and others are simply applied to Mennonites. Then there are riddles and quandaries such as the following. A. Mennonite War Heroes. They are not allowed to bare arms. A. A canoe tips easily.
Stories abound from our history.
J.C. Wenger, theologian, storyteller, teacher and scholar, was noted for his sense of humor and the way he could weave a good story into his teaching. I remember looking forward to each of his classes on Christian ethics at Goshen College. It was said that even in his later years he had a sense of humor in the way he invited his visitors to leave. H.S. Bender, a well-known patriarch of the Mennonite church, was the person involved in the following story. My wife Joyce and I courted throughout our four years at Goshen College.