You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman's Story
I loved this book, says Dora Dueck, writer and editor, who is author of several books and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada (Wiley, 2008). "This is Katie's life, her name, her harvest of work and discovery. But something wonderful happened as I...
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I loved this book, says Dora Dueck, writer and editor, who is author of several books and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada (Wiley, 2008). "This is Katie's life, her name, her harvest of work and discovery. But something wonderful happened as I read what she shares so honestly and well: I saw my own story--and felt it good, and safer again, to be a writer, pilgrim, woman in the MB church." This memoir records Katie Funk Wiebe's search for identity as a woman left widowed with young children who becomes a writer and an early Mennonite and biblical feminist. "Through her vulnerability," comments Doug Heidebrecht, Director of the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg, "Katie invites us to recognize ourselves and to perceive God's grace in the midst of life. Katie's masterful storytelling is a gift." And Valerie Weaver-Zercher, contributing editor to Sojourners, thinks "This is vintage Funk Wiebe: unaffected, spirited, and unblinking."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781931038560 (1931038562)
Publish date: June 15th 2009
Publisher: Dreamseeker Books
Pages no: 284
Edition language: English
Katie Funk Wiebe, when young and single, worked as a legal secretary and later paid her way through bible college by working as secretary for the college president. From these early experiences she knew she was skilled working with words.“I was a fast typist and a good steno, and I knew it. Confid...