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Season 3 Episode 87
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of our listeners! In the Mennonite village of Loma Plata in Menno Colony, Paraguay, there is a street named…
3 days, 23 hours ago
Inventors and Innovators with Dick Braun (Part 2)
Season 3 Episode 86
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It's time for Part 2 of our conversation with Dick Braun of Osler, Sask., which focuses on the prolific innovator, Julius Klassen. Kl…
1 week, 3 days ago
Inventors and Innovators with Dick Braun (Part 1)
Season 3 Episode 85
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Today we bring you Part 1 of a conversation with Dick Braun of Osler, Sask. Dick has written on the topic of Mennonite inventors and …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Forced to Fight: The Jakob Guenther Story
Season 3 Episode 84
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Today we share the the story of Jakob Guenther, who was born and raised in Russia, only to be conscripted by the German army during …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
C. C. Penner
Season 3 Episode 83
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By the time C. C. Penner managed to get out of Soviet Russia in 1949, he’d lost track of his wife and family, and had to leave them b…
1 month ago
David Toews
Season 3 Episode 82
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We’re delighted to launch our fall season with the story of David Toews, one of the most influential Mennonite leaders in 20th centur…
1 month, 1 week ago
SUMMER REWIND: First Harvest in Canada 1876
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For our last rewind of Summer 2026, we bring you a special feature from Thanksgiving 2025!
Mennonite history enthusiast Gerhard Ens f…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SUMMER REWIND: The Disappeared Beaver Mennonite Church
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Today, we bring you a story about the Beaverlodge Mennonite Church, a little known congregation that formed in the late 1920s and dis…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SUMMER REWIND: From Russia with Woe (Part 2)
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During Stalin’s Reign of Terror the 1930s, Jacob Petrovich Janzen was one of many Mennonites swept up into forced labour camps calle…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
SUMMER REWIND: From Russia with Woe (Part 1)
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Today, we bring back 'From Russia with Woe', part one of a two part series. During Stalin’s Reign of Terror the 1930s, Jacob Petrovic…
2 months ago