Canadian Mennonite Magazine

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...

‘Face painting phantasm’ (mennopix Digital art by Ross W. Muir)

The world in colour

October 23, 2019 | Feature | Meghan Larissa Good

If the Bible is a story, it is also something more: It’s a book that dares to make an authoritative claim on life. Between the poems and proverbs and parables, a portrait is taking shape of who God is and what exactly God desires. The...

2007 Flanders fields photo by Tijl Vercaemer (bit.ly/cclicence2-0)

A disarmed heart

October 9, 2019 | Feature | John D. Rempel

How do we “take up our quarrel with the foe”? What does it mean to “break faith with those who die”? Those are the questions before us, especially on a Peace Sunday.

John McCrae’s poem is at once tender and passionate as he mourns...

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'Growing up in Kansas, there was one particular cookie that was a staple at every holiday event: peppernuts.' (Photo by Kristin Hoffman/BakerBettie.com)

Watch: How to make peppernuts

Dec. 13, 2019 | Web First

Students in the Worship Apprentice Program at Conrad Grebel University College, including Rowan Martin (left) and Eunice Femi-Gege (right), tested their skills by leading worship at St. Agatha (Ont.) Mennonite Church on Nov. 17. (Photo by Fred W. Martin)

Worship apprentices provide a resource for the...

Dec. 11, 2019 | Web First

'When the teachers are having fun, the students pick up on it.' (Photo courtesy of YouTube)

Watch: “You need to try out,” coaches sing

Dec. 6, 2019 | Web First

Micah Enns-Dyck is the founder and editor-in-chief of Macrina Magazine. (Photo by Lynette Giesbrecht)

Student launches Macrina Magazine

Dec. 4, 2019 | News

Members of the Holyrood Mennonite Girls Club stop to get their photo taken on their way to a sand sculpture competition this summer. Pictured from left to right: Helena Chokpelleh, Venissa Tumbay and Tarnisha Snogba. (Photo by Joanne De Jong)

Girls Club meets monthly because ‘God is fun!’

Dec. 4, 2019 | News

Edwin Sittler, an Old Order Mennonite, watches as a machine he designed turns a windrow of compost. (Photo by Janet Bauman)

Called to care for the Earth

Dec. 4, 2019 | News

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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

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

Proclaiming Immanuel

Nov. 20, 2019 | Feature

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’

Nov. 6, 2019 | Feature

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'Recently, three Christian publications have each turned a different direction...' (Image by Pexels/Pixabay)

Church publications: Which way to go?

Dec. 4, 2019 | Editorial

(Graphic by Betty Avery)

Readers write: December 9, 2019 issue

Dec. 4, 2019 | Opinion

'Christian media outlets would do well to respect Paul’s wisdom in Galatians and keep the divisive and destructive issues within trusted church leadership.' (Image by moritz320/Pixabay)

Freedom of speech for Christian media?

Dec. 4, 2019 | Opinion

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Wally and Millie Kroeker of River East (MB) Church talk to presenter Aileen Friesen, right, at ‘ Jews, Mennonites and the Holocaust,’ a public presentation at the Asper Jewish Community Centre in Winnipeg on Nov. 5. (Photo by John Longhurst)

Event explores Jews, Mennonites and the...

Nov. 20, 2019 | News

Betty Rudachyk, right, holds hands with a Tibetan woman. (Photo courtesy of China learning tour participants)