New Mennonite Women USA Timbrel editor

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NEWTON, Kan.—Patricia Burdette, a retired English professor and former professional in public relations and financial development, replaced Laurie Oswald Robinson as Mennonite Women USA (MW USA) editor May 15.



She will work from home in Pandora, Ohio.

Burdette is no stranger to the integral role publications plays in MW USA. She served as chair of Editorial Advisory Council and was this council’s representative to the MW USA board.

In that post, she helped hire Oswald Robinson, a new editor, in 2006; was part of a team that shaped the redesigned Timbrel in 2007; and worked with the Bible Study Advisory Council to finalize the yearly Bible study guide, commissioned by MW USA and Canadian Women in Mission.

Burdette’s vocational history includes teaching rhetoric, American Indian Literature and composition, most recently at Bluffton (Ohio) University, as well as much writing and editing.
She earned a Ph.D. in American Indian Peace Studies at Union Institute in 2003.

Each year she will edit six issues of Timbrel: Women in Conversation Together with God and work on other writing and editing projects. —Mennonite Church USA

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