Fleeing the Amish, Mennonites: Breaking from the religious 'Plains'
After fleeing years of emotional and physical abuse in a strict Reformed Mennonite community, Patty Bear says she has no taste for religion.
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How the Military Became Patty Bear's Path Out of Trauma and the Mennonite Church
(Military.com illustration/Photos courtesy of Patty Bear) 17 May 2021 Coffee or Die Magazine | By Natalie Gross Growing up in the Reformed Mennonite Church, Patty Bear didn’t know anything about the military — only that her people were pacifists. Higher education and many secular professions were taboo, especially for women. She assumed she’d be wearing long dresses and bonnets for the rest of her life, like her mother and countless generations of female ancestors before her. Yet after years of watching her mother en...
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