Canadian Mennonite Magazine

Milo Shantz pictured with a turkey in the late 1950s. Shantz and his brother Ross started a highly successful turkey business. (Photo courtesy of Marcus Shantz)

Commerce, church and belonging

May 18, 2023 | Feature | Marcus Shantz

I was delivering a sermon on the story of Zacchaeus last October when I realized that when I talked about Zacchaeus, I was actually thinking about, and picturing, my father.

Though not short in stature, my father, like Zacchaeus, was a man whose occupation...

Ross W. Muir, with camera bag in tow, among a Grade 1 class at the Unyama IDP Camp in northern Uganda, 2004. (Photo by Michael Oruni)

Dispatches from the front lines

May 4, 2023 | Feature | Ross W. Muir

I’m basing the form of this final missive on the last book I read, Dispatches —a harrowing and sometimes hilarious memoir by Michael Herr, who covered the insanity of the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine during two years in the late 1960s. (How insane is...

A painting of Christopher Columbus planting his flag in the “New World,” by American artist Louis Prang. (L. Prang & Co., Boston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

An assumption of grace

April 20, 2023 | Feature | Will Braun

After the Vatican’s recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, I spent two hours speaking with three Indigenous people about the 500-year-old church doctrine that is as much the bedrock of Canada as the Canadian Shield.

I asked about its relevance, the potential of...

Michel Monette and Lyne Renaud. (Photo by Michel Monette)

Crossing guard of hope

April 6, 2023 | Feature | Michel Monette

When I was first called to church planting work in 2004, I prayed and sought God’s will. I also read Ray Bakke’s book, Hope for the City . It invited me back to the city. The book extols God’s love for the city and invites...

Art by Nick Schuurman(therainthesnowtheseed.ca)

The spiritual resurrection

March 23, 2023 | Feature | Menno Simons c.1536

Reading words written nearly 500 years ago and translated nearly 70 years ago takes some effort, especially when the message is that death precedes resurrection. We trust the Spirit will reveal something new in the old.

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from...

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Ernie Regehr presents analysis of Ukraine war

May. 18, 2023 | News

Members of Shalom Worship and Healing Centre lead worship. (MCEC photo by Paul Schmidt)

New churches, new spending at MCEC gathering

May. 18, 2023 | News

Joan Perrott (left), Dolly Jeffares, Marah Rafih and Sana Almotlak at the 2020 Great Winter Warm-up event in Edmonton. (Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld)

Bridge Building ministry reaches into community

May. 18, 2023 | News

Coffee beans drying outside at the Malipayon Peace Hub. (Photo by Dorothea Enns)

Philippines learning tour

May. 18, 2023 | News

A scene from Women Talking. (Photo by Michael Gibson/Orion Pictures)

Film society screens Women Talking

May. 18, 2023 | News

Mark Leistra, Leola Roth and Owen Roth enjoy an intergenerational supper together. (Supplied photo)

Grebel grandma

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Milo Shantz pictured with a turkey in the late 1950s. Shantz and his brother Ross started a highly successful turkey business. (Photo courtesy of Marcus Shantz)

Commerce, church and belonging

May. 18, 2023 | Feature

Ross W. Muir, with camera bag in tow, among a Grade 1 class at the Unyama IDP Camp in northern Uganda, 2004. (Photo by Michael Oruni)

Dispatches from the front lines

May. 4, 2023 | Feature

A painting of Christopher Columbus planting his flag in the “New World,” by American artist Louis Prang. (L. Prang & Co., Boston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)