Susie Guenther Loewen's blog

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I'm Susie Guenther Loewen, a doctoral student in theology, specializing in the themes of gender, suffering, and the cross. My husband Kris and I are both from the prairies, but we currently live in Toronto, where we attend Toronto United Mennonite Church. When not studying, I'm most often reading novels, thrifting, knitting, making collages, or riding my bike around the city.

Mary, the revolutionary

At this time of year, we focus on Jesus’ birth, on the event of God becoming incarnate and enfleshed as a tiny baby.

Ode to thrifting

I’m a third-generation thrift shopper.

Mennonites and the 99%

As someone who’s been a university student for almost a decade, I may not be an authority on money (considering that I’ve never really had any), or the economy more generally.

The otherness of artists

Having spent most of my life in Winnipeg, a city of about 750 thousand which apparently has as prolific an arts scene as a city of several million people, I’ve developed a great love of the literary,