Canadian Mennonite Magazine

‘Potiphar’s wife displays Joseph’s garment,’ by Lucas van Leyden (circa 1512). Notice in the window in the top left corner Joseph can be seen being taken to prison. (Google Art Project)

Biblical characters as spiritual companions

October 17, 2018 | Feature | Gareth Brandt

The Bible is full of stories about people, real people with bodies and minds, and with an array of experiences, relationships and emotions. How odd, then, that we so often turn to the Bible as little more than an instruction manual for communal and personal...

The first issue of the Canadian Mennonite Reporter, August 3, 1971. (Canadian Mennonite file photo)

A united witness

October 3, 2018 | Feature |

This month marks the 65th anniversary of English-language magazine publishing for Mennonites in Canada.

The Canadian Mennonite , a precursor to the magazine you are holding in your hands (or reading on a screen), was launched in 1953 as “an English-language weekly, devoted...

Photo courtesy of Henry Neufeld

From ‘never a teacher’ to ‘why not?’

September 19, 2018 | Feature | Henry Neufeld

“Never a teacher,” I declared from the time I was in public school, growing up in the Leamington district of southwestern Ontario. When I finished high school in Ontario, I enrolled at Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) in Winnipeg, and the “never a teacher” assertion...

‘A politics of tending is centred on shared practices, habits and memories that define a place and community in its particularity, and describe how that community will negotiate its future,’ writes Anika Reynar. (Photo © istock.com/baks)

Tending the in-between spaces

September 5, 2018 | Feature | Anika Reynar

In the midst of significant structural change in Mennonite Church Canada, a group of Canadian Mennonite University students came together in December 2015 around the question, “Do young people care about the future of the church?” This initial gathering generated surprising energy among the participants....

‘Grace’ by Eric Enstrom (public domain)

Experiencing the good news

August 22, 2018 | Feature |

“You . . . were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people” (Ephesians 1:13-14, NRSV).

I understand spirituality to be our knowledge and experience of God active in our...

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Abram Wall Enns, left, was the civic leader of the Manitoba Colony when rape stories first emerged. He wishes the leaders would have acted sooner. (Photo by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky noahfr.com)

Modern ghosts of a horse-drawn scandal, Part 2

Oct. 17, 2018 | God at work in the Church

New identity for Vancouver church

Oct. 17, 2018 | God at work in the Church

‘Bees for Burkina’ honey bees hard at work. (Photo by Doug Klassen, Foothills Mennonite Church)

Friendship that sticks

Oct. 17, 2018 | God at work in the Church

Members of the first-place Bible Quizzing for Grown-ups team, the Canadian Mennonite Scribes, are pictured, from left to right: Jim Loepp Thiessen, pastor of Floradale Mennonite Church; Ginny Hostetler, CM’s executive editor; Barb Draper, CM’s editorial assistant; and Tobi Thiessen, CM’s publisher. (Photo by D. Michael Hostetler)

Bible trivia event generates spirited...

Oct. 17, 2018 | God at work in the Church

Uzbekistan hosts Mr. and Mrs. Karimov, standing, share warm hospitality with a TourMagination group visiting Serabulak. Mr. Karimov is a descendant of a merchant who gave Mennonite pilgrims a farewell gift of money and other gifts. (TourMagination photo by John Sharp)

‘The more we get to know each other’

Oct. 17, 2018 | God at work in the World

A challenge to give loving attention to life

Oct. 17, 2018 | Focus On Books & Resources

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‘Potiphar’s wife displays Joseph’s garment,’ by Lucas van Leyden (circa 1512). Notice in the window in the top left corner Joseph can be seen being taken to prison. (Google Art Project)

Biblical characters as spiritual companions

Oct. 17, 2018 | Feature

The first issue of the Canadian Mennonite Reporter, August 3, 1971. (Canadian Mennonite file photo)

A united witness

Oct. 3, 2018 | Feature

Photo courtesy of Henry Neufeld

From ‘never a teacher’ to ‘why not?’

Sep. 19, 2018 | Feature

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Singing a new song

Oct. 17, 2018 | Editorial

Readers write: October 22, 2018 issue

Oct. 17, 2018 | Viewpoints

Ken Warkentin

Living the ‘prairie experience’

Oct. 17, 2018 | Viewpoints

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The Manitoba Colony is one of more than 80 Mennonite colonies in Bolivia. On one of the photographer’s last days in Manitoba, he and his sister were told by multiple women that, after the ‘ghost rapes’ of 2009, the nighttime rapes still happen, although less frequently. (Photo by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky)

Modern ghosts of a horse-drawn scandal, Part 1

Oct. 3, 2018 | God at work in the Church

A scene from #ChurchToo. (Photo by Saul Tahuite)

‘This is a holy and good thing’

Oct. 3, 2018 | Artbeat

Jessa Braun, right, says that playing sports has shaped her character. (Photo courtesy of Jessa Braun)

Evening the score

Sep. 19, 2018 | Young Voices

Biblical characters as spiritual companions

A united witness

From ‘never a teacher’ to ‘why not?’

Tending the in-between spaces

Experiencing the good news

News

Modern ghosts of a horse-drawn scandal, Part 2

New identity for Vancouver church

Friendship that sticks

Bible trivia event generates spirited...

‘The more we get to know each other’