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      • 0.1 Intro
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    • 2.9 Play

June Mears Driedger

June Mears Driedger is a writer, spiritual director, and retreat leader in Lansing, Michigan. She also is editor of Leader, a quarterly magazine published by MennoMedia. Her writing has appeared in LA Weekly, Pasadena Weekly, The Sun, Christian Century, and multiple Mennonite publications. When she left California to attend Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Elkhart, Indiana), she planned to return within two years. She is still surprised to be living in the midwest—with her Canadian prairies husband, Kevin—more than 23 years later.

The Van Norman Dam
EssayApril 6, 2016

The Van Norman Dam

By June Mears Driedger

We gathered around the television as the news helicopter broadcast images of the Van Norman dam, damaged in the recent earthquake. Civil engineers were…

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Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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