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CMC-MPS steering committee members meet at St. Charles Retreat Centre, Nov. 1996. The group helped shape the future directions for a churchwide publication. Front, left to right: Waldo Neufeld, Ruth Braun, Sam Steiner, Ron Rempel. Back: Marg Neufeld, Lawrence Burkholder, Jack Suderman, Ted Regehr. Missing: Otto Driedger. (Photo by Aiden Enns)

A defining moment revisited

September 28, 2022 | Feature | Ron Rempel

In the summer of 2003, as I pondered how to say farewell to a 24-year career as editor of Canadian Mennonite and its predecessor, Mennonite Reporter , a friend suggested I reflect back on some defining moments.

I could think of many such...

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Faithful constancy

September 14, 2022 | Feature | Bruce Hiebert

He might be the youth leader, enthusiastically singing the loudest, or the young mother protectively watching over her children as they run among the pews, or the strong-willed divorcée who is the staunch activist for women’s justice, or the angry old man suffering from cancer...

Members of MC Canada’s Joint Council, musicians and worship leader Tany Warkentin lead the gathering in words and actions of the ‘We declare’ affirmation. (Photo by Ruth Bergen Braun)

Gathering 2022

August 17, 2022 | Feature | Virginia A. Hostetler

For the first time since 2019, members from across the five regions of Mennonite Church Canada gathered in person for learning, inspiration and decision-making. Meeting at a conference centre in Edmonton, from July 29 to Aug.1, approximately 215 people experienced the joy of being together...

Mennonite World Conference assembly participants attend the final worship service July 10 at the 12,000-seat sanctuary of JKI Injil Kerajaan, a Mennonite church known as the “Holy Stadium,” in Semarang, Indonesia. (Meetinghouse photo by Kresna Kurniawan)

World assembly small but full of joy

July 20, 2022 | Feature | Paul Schrag

With its national motto of “unity in diversity,” Indonesia proved a fitting host for the 17th assembly of Mennonite World Conference (MWC)—downsized by COVID-19 restrictions but full of joy, beauty and fellowship.

In an outdoor venue at a Mennonite seminary on a mountaintop in...

Although Mt. Baker is located in Washington state, traditional Salishan territory, its presence is part of Abbotsford, B.C.’s skyline. Abbotsford is home to the Matsqui First Nation, affiliated with the Stó:lo Nation. (Photo by Amy Rinner Waddell)

We gratefully acknowledge . . .

June 22, 2022 | Feature | Amy Rinner Waddell

In recent years, whether attending church meetings or public or community gatherings, Canadians may have heard opening words similar to these: “We gratefully acknowledge that we are meeting today on the traditional, ancestral territory of [local Indigenous group].”

Especially since the national Truth and...

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A card introducing the (then) new editor/publisher used at the Winker, Man., national church assembly in 2004.

‘We declare to you . . .’

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

In this photo from 2008, pipes are stockpiled outside of Lubicon Cree territory in northern Alberta, in advance of government approval of a TransCanada application for a pipeline through contested aboriginal land. (Photo courtesy of Amnesty International)

Still happening

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

Aaron Dawson and his mother Angelika in their Star Wars ‘Force for change’ T-shirts. (Photo courtesy of Angelika Dawson)

Two stories about my son

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

Dave Rogalsky, pictured in 2018, served as Canadian Mennonite's Eastern Canada correspondent for 12 years.

Visiting congregations

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

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Tragic story ends in reconciliation

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

Wayne and Carry Dueck appreciate the wild beauty of the place they have come to call The Land. (Photo by Donna Schulz)

Inspired by The Land and its caretakers

Sep. 28, 2022 | CM at 25

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CMC-MPS steering committee members meet at St. Charles Retreat Centre, Nov. 1996. The group helped shape the future directions for a churchwide publication. Front, left to right: Waldo Neufeld, Ruth Braun, Sam Steiner, Ron Rempel. Back: Marg Neufeld, Lawrence Burkholder, Jack Suderman, Ted Regehr. Missing: Otto Driedger. (Photo by Aiden Enns)

A defining moment revisited

Sep. 28, 2022 | Feature

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Faithful constancy

Sep. 14, 2022 | Feature

Members of MC Canada’s Joint Council, musicians and worship leader Tany Warkentin lead the gathering in words and actions of the ‘We declare’ affirmation. (Photo by Ruth Bergen Braun)

Gathering 2022

Aug. 17, 2022 | Feature

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Celebrating 25 years of Canadian Mennonite (Graphic by Betty Avery)

Giving thanks for 25 years

Sep. 28, 2022 | Editorial

Readers write: October 3, 2022 issue

Sep. 28, 2022 | Opinion

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A new chapter?

Sep. 28, 2022 | Opinion

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Jubilee Mennonite, which is located in northeast Winnipeg, was founded in 1995 as a dual-conference congregation through the merger of MC Manitoba’s Northgate Mennonite Fellowship and the MB Churches of Manitoba’s Valley Gardens Community Church. (Photo by John Longhurst)

Jubilee Mennonite votes to become an affirming...

Aug. 31, 2022 | News

Will Braun will be Canadian Mennonite’s next executive editor. (Photo courtesy of Will Braun)

Will Braun appointed as CM’s new executive...

Sep. 14, 2022 | People

Jeremy Giesbrecht (far right) and Darren Kehler (kneeling) of the Quonset Brothers have been surprised by the popularity of the video for their song, “Mennonites Put the Oba in Manitoba,” which has garnered more than 156,000 views on YouTube. (Photo courtesy of the Quonset Brothers)

Watch: “Mennonites Put the Oba in Manitoba”

Sep. 1, 2022 | Web First

A defining moment revisited

Faithful constancy

Gathering 2022

World assembly small but full of joy

We gratefully acknowledge . . .

News

‘We declare to you . . .’

Still happening

Two stories about my son

Visiting congregations

Tragic story ends in reconciliation