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MWC signs statement against nuclear weapons
Categories: NewsAugust 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has joined a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the…
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CMU details plans for 2020-21 education and operations with framework manual
Categories: NewsCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) has released its framework for the upcoming academic year, entitled “Learning and living well in an era of pandemic.” The framework offers details for on-campus learning,…
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‘This isn’t the situation we hoped for . . .’
Categories: NewsAnabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) leaders have been discerning plans for the 2020–21 academic year during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic—with the goal of giving students and employees safe access to…
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‘Remember your baptism’
Categories: NewsThe final report on the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversation on baptism has been published. The report summarizes five years of theological consultations between the three communions on the understanding and…
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Voices Together sneak peeks
Categories: NewsAs MennoMedia prepares to release the full list of songs included in Voices Together before the end of August, it is releasing a sneak peek at titles contained within the…
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Pandemic sends Summer Peacebuilding Institute online
When the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) moved online this year in response to COVID-19, it lost some of the aspects that attract people to the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) program…
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MWC shifts Assembly 17 to 2022
Categories: Web FirstIn close consultation with the national advisory committee in Indonesia, the host country, the executive committee of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has decided not to hold Assembly 17 in 2021,…
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Summer vacation
If there is one thing I love about summer vacation it is the way it opens up space. The hectic pace and stimuli of modern society fills our time. It…
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The practice of writing
In his book Bread for the Journey, Henri Nouwen had this to say about the practice of writing: “Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to…
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Potluck faith
Categories: OpinionEvery year around this time, the congregation I belong to makes plans for Gathering Sunday. After a summer of sparser attendance at worship services, our gathering on the first Sunday…
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Hooked on volunteering
Categories: Feature ArticlesEileen Klassen Hamm recalls how, as a young adult, she considered a Mennonite Voluntary Service term to be a good and natural thing to do. “It was an earlier era,…
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Readers write: August 17, 2020 issue
Categories: OpinionDandelion cover inspires flower arranger Re: Dandelion front cover, June 8. I laughed out loud when I saw the dandelion on the cover. Growing up on the farm in Virgil,…
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‘The long wait’
Categories: Opinion“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: A time to born and a time to die . . . .” (Ecclesiastes 2:1-2). Over…
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Volleyball game
Categories: OpinionThe Conference of Mennonites in Canada annual session was held in July 1975, in Swift Current, Sask. Hot weather put participants’ “cool” to the test. The assembly was not only…
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Why ‘third way’?
Categories: OpinionI’ve been asked recently why my column is called “Third Way Family.” The question has prompted me to share my reasoning behind choosing this title and what it means to…
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The role of the church today?
Categories: OpinionI am listening these days to stories of how people and their churches are responding to the physical and emotional needs around them due to COVID-19. Every congregation is finding…
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Antifragile church
Categories: OpinionThe past few months have awakened us to our fragility as individuals, communities and nation states. We’ve observed the fragility of our health-care system, food-supply chain, economies, global trade, international…
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Western Christianity misinterprets Jesus
Categories: OpinionWhen H.S. Bender came out with The Anabaptist Vision in the 1940s, he offered a Mennonite theology that was different from the evangelical fundamentalism widely accepted in the church at…
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‘Butterfly whisperer’ aids monarchs in Windsor
Categories: NewsThe human impact on climate and the Earth itself can often be seen on a massive scale. Think of the melting Arctic or check out the photographic work of Ed…
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Marking end-of-life rituals during the pandemic
Categories: NewsAmid the restrictions of COVID-19, pastors and families are still finding creative and meaningful ways to mark, grieve and ritualize the deaths of loved ones. But no two funerals are…