![]() ![]() My mother would later tell me that she had driven herself to the city, Winnipeg, the day it was made available in stores-it would never have been sold in my little conservative Mennonite town-to find out what all the fuss was about. The title, taken from a verse in the Book of Daniel, encapsulated the contention of the novel-that pacifism and non-conflict, core tenets of the Mennonite faith, may in fact be sources of violence and conflict, all the more damaging because unacknowledged or denied.Īlthough the book was published two years before I was born, I can remember my parents discussing it at the kitchen table, conspiratorially, as if the topic was in itself dangerous. ![]() In 1962, a young scholar from Saskatchewan by the name of Rudy Wiebe caused outrage and scandal in Mennonite communities throughout North America when he published his first novel, Peace Shall Destroy Many. ![]()
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