Just Plain Wrong Podcast
1) Wrapping up 2025: Our Favorite Books and Media of the Year
In this week's episode, the MennoBrarians look back on 2025 and chat about some of our favorite books and media from this past year. Mentioned in this episode: Erin’s 2025 Favorites The collected wo...Show More
2) A Ladder to Nowhere: Discussing the movie Christmas in Amish Country
The MennoBrarians return for the first of our two holiday episodes, with a recap and discussion on the recently released movie, Christmas in Amish Country. You can find this movie streaming on Frndly,...Show More
3) We need a bigger spreadsheet: Wrapping up Season 7
In this episode we discuss the highlights of season 7, share some stats and also stories and corrections from our listeners. Highlights include the story of how the More with Less cookbook got into tr...Show More
4) That's Very 2000 of You: Discussing Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
This week the MennoBrarians discuss the selection chosen for us by our Discernment Committee level Patreon members: Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, published in 2000. This book has it all: a mysterious m...Show More
5) Better Than Jimmy Carter Cake: Discussing Mennonite Community Cookbooks with Amy Harris-Aber
This week is part 2 of our cookbook series! We chat with Amy Harris-Aber, about Community Cookbooks - informally published cookbooks often associated with families, camps, or churches. We chat about A...Show More
6) What is food? A Snake Draft of Published Mennonite Cookbooks
This week, the MennoBrarians draft published Mennonite cookbooks. We chat cooking blogs, favorite recipes, and much much more. Draft picks (stop reading if you don't want spoilers!): Erin - Simply i...Show More
7) Laundering and Laundry: A conversation with Karen Johnson-Weiner, author of the Lives of Amish Women
This week, the MennoBrarians chat with Karen Johnson-Weiner about her book, The Lives of Amish Women. The book captures the diversity of the experiences of Amish women, with Johnson-Weiner's research ...Show More
8) An Experience That Cannot Be Described: Discussing the Movie "Holy Matrimony"
This week, the MennoBrarians chat about the movie "Holy Matrimony," a 1994 comedy movie starring Patricia Arquette and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the movie, Patricia Arquette's character, Havanna, is un...Show More
9) Joe Would Know: A Conversation with Eric Bradley
This week, we chat with Eric Bradley, our friend, colleague, and the new Head Librarian of the Mennonite Historical Library (MHL). We chat primarily about genealogy and genealogy research, but also to...Show More
10) Snowflake, Snowflake: A Snake Draft of Mennonite Poets
This week, the MennoBrarians draft poets! Specifically, Mennonite poets, or poets we make the case are close enough to Mennonite to count as Mennonite poets. We chat about the history of Mennonite poe...Show More