Canadian Mennonite Magazine

‘Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark’ (detail), by Benjamin West

Full stomach, faulty memory

October 31, 2018 | Feature | Dori Zerbe Cornelsen

We are daily awash in choices and opportunities, and many of us are affluent enough to be able to choose among many options. Many of us make many choices even before we get out the door in the morning. Our stomachs are full, we live...

‘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....

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Calgary pastor appointed as MC Canada’s...

Nov. 4, 2018 | Web First

Bikers taking part in the Winnipeg Ride for Refuge, including those riding in support of MC Canada Witness workers, are pictured at Covenant Christian Reformed Church before the ride began. (Photo courtesy of MC Manitoba)

What moves you?

Oct. 31, 2018 | God at work in the Church

Historian Aileen Friesen speaks to a full house at St. Catharines United Mennonite Church at an event commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution. (Photo by Randy Klaassen)

From grief to gratitude

Oct. 31, 2018 | God at work in the Church

Mennonite children learn patriarchy from a young age. Gender roles are strictly defined: men work the fields and women take care of the home. (Photo by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky noahfr.com)

Modern ghosts of a horse-drawn scandal, Part 3

Oct. 31, 2018 | God at work in the Church

The new home of Langham Mennonite Fellowship stands on the same site as the old Zoar Mennonite Church. (Photo by Donna Schulz)

‘Leaving behind what wasn’t healthy’

Oct. 31, 2018 | God at work in the Church

Panelists Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, left, and Hans Werner at Canadian Mennonite University’s Face2Face discussion on ‘Treaty One and Mennonite Privilegium.’

‘It’s not too late’

Oct. 31, 2018 | God at work in the World

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‘Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark’ (detail), by Benjamin West

Full stomach, faulty memory

Oct. 31, 2018 | Feature

‘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

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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