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Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College offers the full text of a lecture concerning the reforms of Tsar Peter I (1672-1725), known as Peter the Great. Rempel explores the significance of Peter the Great and his reforms to subsequent Russian history.
Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony in 1789.
Our present moment can no longer sustain a stable “us” defined against an alien “them.” So say René Girard and Ivan Illich, radical critics of both Christianity and culture. If they are right, this makes our time an endtime. The end of us against them can deteriorate into the chaos of each against each, or it can open outward into freely chosen communion. It is an expectant—and apocalyptic—time. How does one live in this strange, endtime world? As a wanderer in the odd, cross-culture country Girard and Illich have mapped, the author finds himself in a surprising new place in relation to those who are his other: women, queer folk, refugees, Muslims, atheists, and Indigenous people. In this collection of essays, he blinks, looks around, and makes some field notes.
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Peter Friesen was born in Mennonite Russia in 1828. He married Maria Rempel and they had 14 children. They immigrated to Canada about 1875 and settled in Manitoba with other Mennonites. Information on their lives, ancestry, siblings and descendants is given in this volume. Descendants now live in Manitoba, Alberta, and elsewhere in Canada and the United States. Material about Mennonite communities in Europe and Canada, as well as some historical background is also included in this work.