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Adina Janzen

Season 3 Episode 76

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Today, guest host Sara Dyck brings you the compelling life story of Adina Janzen, who survived the dark Soviet era in Russia. In 1934…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Interview with Dr. Mark Jantzen (Part 2)

Season 3 Episode 75

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Today, In Part 2, Dr. Jantzen reveals how Prussian rulers targeted Mennonite women, which eventually provoked a mass migration of Men…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Interview with Dr. Mark Jantzen (Part 1)

Season 3 Episode 74

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Today, we bring you an interview with Bethel College professor Dr. Mark Jantzen, who studies the little known history of Mennonites w…

5 months ago

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Samuel McRoberts and his Paraguay photo collection

Season 3 Episode 73

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Today, we bring you the story of Samuel McRoberts, the American lawyer and banker whose deeply religious wife Harriet persuaded McRob…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Laureen Harder Gissing and the Mennonite Archives of Ontario

Season 3 Episode 72

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Today, we bring you a conversation with archivist Laureen Harder Gissing. When Laureen was 13 years old, her grandmother gifted her w…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Journey to Burns Lake

Season 3 Episode 71

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Today, guest host Sara Dyck brings you the story of a provincial government experiment to resettle a group of Manitoba Mennonites nea…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 70 with Andrew Unger

Season 3 Episode 70

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Today, we bring you an interview with author and satirist Andrew Unger about his book Once Removed. The novel’s main character, Timot…

6 months ago

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Tragedy at Vanderhoof

Season 3 Episode 69

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Today, guest host Sara Dyck shares the tragic tale of a group of Mennonites who in 1918, moved from Manitoba to Vanderhoof, British C…

6 months, 1 week ago

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David Bergen, novelist

Season 3 Episode 68

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Today, we bring your listeners an interview with nationally acclaimed writer David Bergen about his novel Away from the Dead, a ficti…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Disappeared Beaver Lodge Mennonite Church

Season 3 Episode 67

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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…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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