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Kim Walker (as Sue Clemmer), left, John Wideman (as Sam Steiner), and other Goshen College students played by Rebecca Steiner and Ben Wert work on the college’s student paper in Theatre of the Beat’s Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft.
May 9, 2012 | Artbeat | Review and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Rohina Malik plays a veiled Muslim woman in her one-woman show, Unveiled, performed at Conrad Grebel University College on March 30.
Rohina Malik was 14 when her family moved from London, England, to Chicago. It was there that she lived through—and continues to live through—the misunderstandings about Muslims,... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Artbeat | By Dave Rogalsky
James Redekop is pictured in one of SunSelect’s environmentally friendly greenhouses in Delta, B.C.
SunSelect Produce Inc., a family-owned vegetable producer with Mennonite roots, owns more than 28 hectares of greenhouses in Aldergrove and Delta, which they use to grow more than... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Rachel Bergen
An Earth Day tent revival at Memorial Park in front of Winnipeg’s Legislative Building attracted around 350 people of all ages, with 200 participating in a walk to the event... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the World |
Mark Bauman of St. Jacobs Mennonite Church, Ont., removes mouldy wood and materials before rebuilding a floor in an Attawapiskat First Nation home this spring.
Mark Bauman’s eyes still tear up when he recalls worshipping at the St. Francois-Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Attawapiskat. Most of the service in the First Nation community,... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Dave Rogalsky
Derek Janzen, a Grade 12 student at MCI, Gretna, Man., plays with young children at Hope Community Centre in Kenya.
“You can watch a thousand World Vision commercials and still not fully understand what life is like for some,” says Emily Hildebrand, one of 12 students from Mennonite Collegiate... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
When a missionary asked Africans in Zanzibar to tell him something about their God, they simply said, "God thunders!" The cleric had travelled across the seas in the 19th century... Read More
May 7, 2012 | Web First | Fredrick Nzwili
Karin Fast with her host mother.
A Eastern Canada student is participating in the Goshen ( Ind .) College Study-Service Term (SST) in Senegal during this summer, along with 21 other students. Goshen established... Read More
May 4, 2012 | Web First | News release
Even though their Mecca is the Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, one non-Mormon observer says they are growing fast because "the way they organize themselves makes for more congregations."
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney may or may not become the first Mormon to move into the White House next year, but a new study shows that Mormonism is moving into... Read More
May 2, 2012 | Web First | By Kevin Eckstrom
Christians are taught that taking a Sabbath from work is an important spiritual discipline, but some Mennonites in Winnipeg organized a Sabbath from consumption. Consumption... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
As a recent graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in social work, I consider myself to be quite lucky with the type of employment I’ve landed. I received a job... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Stephanie Coughlan Ens
It takes a village to make an album. Oh Village, a four-piece rock band from Abbotsford, B.C., is planning to pay for its upcoming EP by “crowdfunding” the project. Scott Currie,... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Theology, spirituality Atonement, Justice and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church . Darrin W. Snyder Belousek . Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012, 668... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On |
In order to write this book, Barb Draper did a lot of digging among her roots. She performed an excellent job of searching out the reasons for some of the traditions and practices... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Levi M. Frey
The way Mennonites talk about peace has changed in the past 100 years. While our grandparents talked about “nonresistance,” today we are apt to relate peace to “justice.” Stutzman... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Barb Draper
In this wonderfully crafted booklet, the last before his untimely death, A. James Reimer gives his readers a gift with his succinct summary of a topic that has preoccupied much of... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Harry Huebner
In the eyes of the watching world the Christian church is often seen for its mistakes, and as the church looks upon itself it must acknowledge this sinful past. While the church... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Maxwell Kennel
Just type “Third Way Café” into your search engine—you don’t even need the accent on the “e”—and you will soon be sipping today’s brew of Mennonite stories, reading blogs, viewing... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Dave Rogalsky
'Living Into Focus' by Arthur Boers.
I wish e-mail took up less of my life. I wish I could remember the last time I savoured a sunset. I wish I prayed more. “I do not understand my own actions,” wrote the Apostle... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Will Braun
We Mennonites are not going to run out of stories anytime soon! How could we, after the resplendent feast of Mennonite creative writing enjoyed by 170 of us in Virginia’s... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | By Sue Clemmer Steiner
Willems
More than a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer, Howard Willems is in the mood to fight. He’s not fighting the disease as much as the cause of his cancer, an illness that... Read More
April 25, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Karin Fehderau
The four-year, $ 2.5-million Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) review process is over, and the single most significant outcome is a power shift from MCC’s Akron, Pa., office to... Read More
April 25, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
To deliver nutritional care to young children and expectant mothers in remote areas of Afghanistan, the staff of Medair, a Swiss faith-based nongovernmental organization and a Mennonite Central Committee partner, have to travel by horseback in the winter.
Despite war’s obstacles and disruptions, Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) partners in Afghanistan continue to provide life-enhancing and empowering services to Afghans... Read More
April 25, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Emily Will
Brian Bauman, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada mission minister, and his wife Nancy Brubaker, interim pastor at Shantz Mennonite Church, Baden, Ont., travelled to Myanmar earlier... Read More
April 25, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Brian Bauman
