Fourteen people have occupied the editor’s chair at the MB Herald. Each person brought a unique perspective and a distinct voice to a particular time in the life of the magazine and the Canadian MB conference. Here, some reflect on the legacy of the magazine over its 58 years.
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Dora Dueck
All That Belongs Dora Dueck Turnstone Press Reviewed by Jon Isaak The novel – featuring a retired Mennonite archivist named Catherine Riediger, who makes several startling discoveries of her own…
The Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission met June 7–8, 2019, for its annual general meeting, in Fresno, Cal., at Fresno Pacific University. On Friday evening, it hosted a reception with Doug…
Dora Dueck, member of Jubilee Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, won The Malahat Review’s 2014 novella prize. Chosen from 221 submissions, Dueck’s story “The Mask” was awarded $1,500 and publication in the…
Congratulations to authors Dora Dueck and Sarah Klassen whose books were shortlisted for the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards!
What You Get at Home
Author: Dora Dueck
When your last book wins Manitoba Book of the Year, your next work faces significant performance pressure; Dueck’s What You Get at Home lives up to it…This Hidden ThingAuthor: Dora Dueck“You’re not wanted…too fresh off the train.” So begins the fictional account of Maria Klassen, newly emigrated from South Russia to Winnipeg in the winter of 1927. From there, we witness Maria’s life as defined by the powerful secret she keeps.
Books Profiled are: Tell It Slant, Author: Eugene H. Peterson; Building Bridges, Author: Wilmer Martin; Paper House, Author: Jean Janzen; Crossing Frontiers, Author: Helmut Lemke; Women in Early Austrian Anabaptism, Their Days, Their Stories, Author: Linda A. Huebert Hecht
Road of Suffering Artist: Jakob Wedel Suffering and faith go hand in hand in the story of Russian Germans in the 20th century.
This fall’s election frenzy (both in Canada and across the border) reminded me what I appreciate about this country.