Dora Dueck

Dora Dueck is a Mennonite writer, editor and lay historian in Manitoba. She blogs at Borrowing Bones, part of the CCblogs network.

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The lens of dementia

Jan 17, 2012 by Dora Dueck

The movie The Iron Lady--about Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990--is worth watching for a number of reasons. One is the opportunity to refresh our minds about a major figure of recent history and her influence upon those times. Another is to watch Meryl Streep’s performance in the role.

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Reacting to the bomb to come

Nov 18, 2011 by Dora Dueck

I was doing some research at the public library the other day, paging through LIFE magazines from 1970. Ecology—as in acid rain, etc.—was an issue of great public concern at the time, with predictions that within a decade people would be wearing gas masks to survive pollution. Even more urgent, though, was “population pollution.”

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Blessed are the merciful

Sep 30, 2011 by Dora Dueck

I belong to a Mennonite-Catholic dialogue group which meets several times a year. Our assignment for this week’s meeting was a personal reflection on the Beatitudes, broadly, and then more specifically, in choosing one beatitude we were particularly “attracted” to at this point — in not more than seven minutes each! The contributions were varied, and all interesting.

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A few observations about the near-end of the world yesterday

May 23, 2011 by Dora Dueck

1. It was an effective campaign. People everywhere noticed the billboards, the ads, and seemed to be talking about the rapture/end of the world happening at 6 p.m. yesterday. And I don’t mean just the talkers on Facebook and Twitter, the ordinaries on the street, like you and me.

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