Just Plain Wrong
by The MennoBrarians
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Wrapping up Season 8: The Heated Rivalry Season
Aug 19, 2026
38m 03s
Girl Power Bonnet Novel: Discussing Her Heart's Desire
Aug 5, 2026
1h 01m 21s
Tiny Dinosaurs: A Conversation with Duane Stoltzfus, author of Pacifists in Chains
Jul 22, 2026
56m 53s
Atonement Cheesecake: Discussing the movie Saving Sarah Cain
Jul 8, 2026
53m 01s
Worm in the Guava: A Conversation with Sarah Augustine on the Doctrine of Discovery
Jun 24, 2026
1h 04m 13s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/19/26 | Wrapping up Season 8: The Heated Rivalry Season | This week is our season 8 wrap up! We chat about season 8, what we'll be up to during our break, provide some media recommendations, and do our seasonal stats round ups, thank yous, and corrections. We will be back in December with some Christmas-themed content as well as our annual "media faves" for 2026. Season 9 will kick off in February 2027 - watch our social media pages for updates on the exact date. Media recommendations from this episode: Tillie: Stardew Valley (vide... | 38m 03s | ||||||
| 8/5/26 | Girl Power Bonnet Novel: Discussing Her Heart's Desire | This week the MennoBrarians discuss the book, Her Heart's Desire by Shelley Shepard Gray. The book follows three young Amish women as they journey to Pinecraft by bus and build new friendships, form romantic connections, encounter / forgive childhood bullies, all while exploring the sites in Sarasota, FL. We chat public transit, accents, card making as a viable career option, and much more. Thanks to our Discernment Committee Patreon members for their support and for selecting this book... | 1h 01m 21s | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | Tiny Dinosaurs: A Conversation with Duane Stoltzfus, author of Pacifists in Chains | This week the MennoBrarians chat with Duane Stoltzfus, recently retired Goshen College Professor of Communication, and author of the book Pacifists in Chains. The book tells the story of the Hofer brothers, four Hutterite men who were drafted during World War 1 and were sent to Alcatraz after refusing to wear military uniforms. We chat with Duane about the book, story telling, and much much more! We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Tw... | 56m 53s | ||||||
| 7/8/26 | movie discussionAmish culture+3 | — | Saving Sarah Cain | — | Saving Sarah CainAmish+3 | — | 53m 01s | ||
| 6/24/26 | Doctrine of DiscoveryMennonite traditions+3 | Sarah Augustine | Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of DiscoveryHerald Press+2 | — | Doctrine of DiscoveryMennonite+4 | — | 1h 04m 13s | ||
| 6/10/26 | fan fictionAmish culture+3 | — | Archive of Our OwnYer Amish, Harry | — | fan fictionAmish+3 | — | 1h 06m 25s | ||
| 5/27/26 | true crimeMennonites+3 | — | Netflix | Wayne County, OH | Amish Studtrue crime+6 | — | 1h 00m 44s | ||
| 5/22/26 | hymnsmusic+3 | Bradley Kauffman | Voices TogetherThere's a Wild Hope in the Wind+1 | — | hymn snake draftVoices Together+3 | — | 6m 26s | ||
| 5/13/26 | hymnshymnals+3 | Bradley Kauffman | Voices Together Mennonite HymnalMennoBrarians | — | hymnsVoices Together+5 | — | 1h 11m 50s | ||
| 4/29/26 | Mennonite hymnsholiday songs+3 | — | The MennoBrariansPatreon+2 | TwitterInstagram+1 | Mennonitehymns+5 | — | 46m 31s | ||
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| 4/15/26 | TV showscartoons+4 | — | Glenn Martin, DDS2 Broke Girls | AmishBrooklyn | Glenn Martin, DDS2 Broke Girls+4 | — | 50m 52s | ||
| 4/1/26 | podcast celebrationepisode review+3 | — | Just Plain WrongThe MennoBrarians | — | podcastepisode review+4 | — | 44m 42s | ||
| 3/18/26 | podcast summitbad movies+3 | — | Holyman UndercoverMonsturd | SarasotaPinecraft | podcast summitHolyman Undercover+4 | — | 49m 06s | ||
| 3/4/26 | Mennonite traditionssnake draft+3 | — | MCCJust Plain Wrong | — | Mennonitetraditions+5 | — | 56m 34s | ||
| 2/18/26 | Amish romancePride and Prejudice adaptations+3 | — | First Impressions: An Amish Retelling of Pride & PrejudicePride and Prejudice | — | Amishromance novel+5 | — | 1h 05m 08s | ||
| 2/4/26 | breakfast foodslife updates+3 | — | PatreonTeePublic+2 | — | breakfast foodssnake draft+4 | — | 54m 50s | ||
| 12/24/25 | 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 works of Ali HazelwoodBasketball, particularly the Iowa Hawkeyes and the WNBAAtmosphere by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe music of Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Chappel RoanTillie’s 2025 Favorites Murderbot TV series on Apple TV - Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our ... | 58m 30s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | 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, Philo, or live on the UpTV cable channel. In the movie, we follow Claire/Clara Stoll through her new restaurant's disastrous opening night, after which she decides to return home to Missouri and stay with her Amish family for the holidays. She's driven there by fake Lyft driver Jack who is reall... | 59m 35s | ||||||
| 8/20/25 | 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 trouble with a chain of restaurants, the rise of ebikes in Mount Hope, OH, and more. Additionally, here are some of the resources shared by Steve Nolt about the Old Order River Brethren including: A number of very informative books in the MHL, about Amish and other Plain groups, were written by an ... | 33m 11s | ||||||
| 8/6/25 | 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 murder, a lying Amish teenager accused of the crime, a cutthroat but disillusioned big city lawyer, and a 28 year old ph.d. student studying ghosts that turns out to be the baby's father. We chat mysteries, plot twists, and what maybe didn't hold up so well 25 years after publication. We a... | 1h 13m 38s | ||||||
| 7/23/25 | 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 Amy's research on Mennonite cookbooks, discuss our fave recipes and cookbooks, and much much more. Amy's websiteAmy's article on Russian Mennonite Community CookbooksCookbooks / articles / books mentioned: Feminist Rhetorical Practices – Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. KirschGoess... | 1h 04m 55s | ||||||
| 7/9/25 | 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 in SeasonAbby - More with LessTillie - Extending the TableTillie - Mennonite Community CookbookAbby - There’s always room at the table - Kaleb WyseErin - Peppernuts Plain and FancyErin - The Daily Feast - The Graber FamilyAbby - The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasure of... | 59m 42s | ||||||
| 6/25/25 | Laundering the 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 relying heavily on correspondence and interviews with members of Amish communities. We chat about her research, her friendships with Amish women, why there hasn't been much research published on Amish women and much more! We really enjoyed The Lives of Amish Women and recommend you add it to your... | 48m 56s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 | 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 unknowingly dragged into a Hutterite colony by her boyfriend Peter who she is forced to marry, and then after Peter dies in a car accident days later, she must marry Zeke, Peter's 12-year old brother per the rules of the colony. If you think that's weird, just wait til you hear us break down the re... | 1h 09m 09s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 | 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 touch on MHL resources, Eric's faith journey, and much more. Some of the genealogy resources mentioned in this episode: Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association https://www.saga-omii.org/Grandma Online: https://grandmaonline.org/gmol-7/login.aspFamily Search: https://www.familysearch.or... | 55m 42s | ||||||
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