Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues. [I] don't know where to go.

Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues... [I] don't know where to go.

Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?

Tal y como yo lo veo, lo que hemos decidido las mujeres es que queremos, y creemos merecer, tres cosas.¿Cuáles?, pregunta Greta.Mariche dice: Queremos que nuestros hijos estén seguros. Ha empezado a llorar en silencio y está costándole hablar, pero continúa. Queremos ser fieles a nuestra fe. Queremos pensar.

¿Digo bien si digo que en este momento las mujeres estamos preguntándonos cuál es nuestra prioridad y qué está bien, si proteger a nuestras hijas o entrar en el Reino de los Cielos?

I find it curious that she hasn't been excommunicated. Are her small acts of rebellion a convenient outlet for Peters, a type of performance that satisfies the colonists' need to assert themselves, and that allows Peters to act with impunity on a larger scale?

A la hija pequeña de Salome, Miep, la violentaron los hombres entre dos y tres veces distintas, pero Peters ha prohibido que la niña, que tiene tres años, reciba tratamiento médico, alegando que el médico difundiría rumores sobre la colonia y la gente sabría lo de las agresiones y convertirían todo el incidente en un escándalo.

Imagine the least well-adjusted kid in your school starting a breakaway clique of people whose manifesto includes a ban on the media, dancing, smoking, temperate climates, movies, drinking rock 'n' roll, having sex for fun, swimming, make-up, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities, or staying up past nine o'clock. That was Menno all over. Thanks a lot, Menno.