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Zac Schellenberg, a teacher at Rosthern Junior College, uses his cell phone to take a picture of students taking selfies. (Photo by Jill Olfert Wiens)

Learning to live with technology

January 15, 2020 | Feature |

The internet and the myriad technologies that have accompanied its rise to media supremacy have transformed the way people communicate. For better or worse they have also transformed education.

As principal of Rosthern Junior College (RJC), a Mennonite high school in Rosthern, Sask., Ryan...

A Mennonite World Conference delegation made church visits in India in December 2018. (Photo: Henk Stenvers / Mennonite World Conference)

Encountering the gifts of a global church

December 31, 2019 | Feature | José Luis Moraga

The world is getting smaller. Peoples, places and cultures that in the past existed in distant lands may today be just around the corner. Here in North America, because of migration, many neighbourhoods have become mosaics of people of a variety of skin colours, languages...

Unlike their elders, who have more years behind than ahead, children and youth have the benefit of unlimited possibilities for their life. (Photo taken from povertyinstitute.ca)

Empower children . . . end poverty

December 4, 2019 | Feature | Derek Cook

This year marked the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Fittingly, the theme of the 2019 Universal Children’s Day, held on Nov. 20, was “Acting together to empower children, their families and communities to end poverty.”

Despite...

‘Angel announcing: Jesus is here,’ by Elizabeth Cressman, a Grade 3 student who attends Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont.

Proclaiming Immanuel

November 20, 2019 | Feature | Jodie Hatlem

I was eight years old. That year, the Sunday school Christmas pageant was going to be a no-fuss event. All the kids were going to stand up in a line, each of us reciting a memorized verse from Luke’s Christmas story.

“And when they...

Capitalizing on the way that society is currently unplugging itself from traditional forms of religion, the mall is an example of a cultural institution that has successfully read the religious market and opened a new outlet for selling and consuming transcendence. (Mennopix photos by Ross W. Muir)

‘Taste and see that stuff is good’

November 6, 2019 | Feature | Thomas Bergen

The human struggle has always been—and always will be—between worshiping the God who made us or worshiping a god that we have to make for ourselves. Secularism is a myth because there is no such thing as not worshipping.

Advocates of the secularization thesis...

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Katie Sowers, pictured with her mother at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California last month. Sowers is the second woman to hold a coaching position in the NFL. (Photo courtesy of Instagram.com/katesowers5)

Watch: Katie Sowers is making Super Bowl history

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This store in New Hamburg, Ont. is one of the TTV locations that will close by the end of May.

Ten Thousand Villages Canada shuts down...

Jan. 21, 2020 | Web First

Mennonite World Conference staff have released a new video in advance of Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday. The video highlights MWC's work around the world in 2019. (Photo courtesy of MWC)

Watch: Mennonite World Conference's year...

Jan. 17, 2020 | Web First

The sign in front of Calvary Church in Ayr, Ont., hints at the significant shift taking place as the church merges with Calvary Pentecostal Assembly of nearby Cambridge. (Photo by Janet Bauman)

Three congregations leave MC Eastern Canada

Jan. 15, 2020 | News

'He recently left a Mennonite Church Canada congregation that professes open-mindedness and inclusivity. I wanted to know why.' (Image by Arek Socha/Pixabay)

Listening to those who have left

Jan. 15, 2020 | News

Home Street Mennonite Church is located in the heart of Winnipeg’s inner city. (Home Street Mennonite Church website photo)

Winnipeg church welcomes its neighbours

Jan. 15, 2020 | News

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Zac Schellenberg, a teacher at Rosthern Junior College, uses his cell phone to take a picture of students taking selfies. (Photo by Jill Olfert Wiens)

Learning to live with technology

Jan. 15, 2020 | Feature

A Mennonite World Conference delegation made church visits in India in December 2018. (Photo: Henk Stenvers / Mennonite World Conference)

Encountering the gifts of a global church

Dec. 31, 2019 | Feature

Unlike their elders, who have more years behind than ahead, children and youth have the benefit of unlimited possibilities for their life. (Photo taken from povertyinstitute.ca)

Empower children . . . end poverty

Dec. 4, 2019 | Feature

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'We can take mini-sabbaticals by stepping away from the computer, the smartphone, the newspaper and TV news. We disconnect, knowing that God is larger than our human efforts.' (Image by Shah Rokh/Pixabay)

Cultivating hope

Jan. 15, 2020 | Editorial

(Graphic by Betty Avery)

Readers write: January 20, 2020 issue

Jan. 15, 2020 | Opinion

'Our church family has expanded and, with it, our diversity.' (Image by truthseeker08/Pixabay)

No longer predictable

Jan. 15, 2020 | Opinion

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This store in New Hamburg, Ont. is one of the TTV locations that will close by the end of May.

Ten Thousand Villages Canada shuts down...

Jan. 21, 2020 | Web First

The sign in front of Calvary Church in Ayr, Ont., hints at the significant shift taking place as the church merges with Calvary Pentecostal Assembly of nearby Cambridge. (Photo by Janet Bauman)