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An intentionally inconsistent cat
Categories: OpinionI’m reading through the Chronicles of Narnia with my girls at bedtime. We recently finished Prince Caspian and then watched the movie. Narnia has definitely influenced my Scripture reading lately. …
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French Anabaptists gather online to worship, celebrate
Categories: Web FirstSerge Gravel describes meeting with other French Anabaptists online like getting a dose of Vitamin C fortified with Vitamin D and zinc, in order to gain spiritual victory and encouragement,…
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MennoMedia: Do not sing together if you are gathering physically for worship
Categories: Web FirstWith stay-at-home orders being lifted across much of the U.S. and Canada, churches are thinking about what it will look like to open their doors again. Yet because the COVID-19…
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Ways to sing together during online worship
Categories: Web FirstOne of the most potent ways we cope with hardship is by singing and praying together. Amid the loss of in-person gathering, congregations have shown a tremendous amount of creativity,…
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Mennonite Men Tithe Grant approved
The board of Mennonite Men approved a grant of US$10,000 for the Mission Anabaptist Church, a new Anabaptist/Mennonite congregation in Myanmar that has quickly out-grown its current worship space. Supported…
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Watch: Quarantine viewing ideas
Categories: Web FirstLooking for a movie to watch? Sue Sorensen has some suggestions for you. Sorensen, an English professor at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, is featured in a series of five…
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Death toll
I started Sunday morning in tears as I read through the heartbreaking list that blanketed the front page of the New York Times. To mark the deaths of (at that point)…
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MCC announces program cuts, changes due to COVID-19
Categories: Web FirstDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has scaled up its work to respond to the global crisis, increasing projects related to water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH), local health…
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CMU prof offers sermons, reflections in new book
WINNIPEG—The gaping mouth of a giant fish stretches open across the cover of Chris Huebner’s new book, Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections. The image of a Polish church…
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‘We are in this together’
Categories: Web FirstIn 1990, as the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival on this side of the Atlantic loomed, Mennonites felt compelled to do something tangible. The Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC)…
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On staying safe
Stay safe. You hear these two little words a lot these days. They serve as the tag at the end of the phone call, the coda for the email, the…
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Our fathers
Categories: EditorialMother’s Day is past, and Pentecost and Father’s Day are still ahead. In this in-between time, I’ve been considering the ways in which we describe God. Humans long to know,…
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Open to us a door
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen Hymnal: A Worship Book came out in 1992, “What is This Place” was chosen to be the lead hymn in the collection. The first line describes the church building…
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Readers write: May 25, 2020 issue
Categories: OpinionCM writers are fitting followers of innovators in religious toleration Re: “Out of holy weakness, mysterious power arises,” March 2, page 4, and “Making things right,” March 2, page 10.…
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A column about plague columns
Categories: OpinionIf you’ve travelled in central or eastern Europe, you may have come across a plague column holding a prominent place in a town square. Plague columns were constructed in the…
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J.J. Thiessen
Categories: OpinionJ.J. Thiessen of Saskatoon served in many leadership roles at the congregational, provincial, national, and binational levels most of his adult life. He is quoted in A Leader for his…
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Sunday morning on Zoom
Categories: OpinionChurch is about to start and the Zoom link doesn’t work! For some reason it keeps sending me to a YouTube video of “Seek Ye First,” and I can’t find…
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Too much news?
Categories: OpinionThese are days of information overload. There is so much news to follow! Local, regional, national, international, from this part of the country and from that part of the world. …
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Embrace the paradox
Categories: OpinionIn 1993, my friend Myron Penner introduced me to Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. I haven’t been the same since. Kierkegaard enlightened me to the power of paradox. At that time…
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104-year-old reader likes to ‘keep in tune’ with the church
Categories: PeopleLydia Ann (nee Horst) Bauman may be Canadian Mennonite’s oldest reader. At 104 years of age she still reads the magazine in her assisted-living suite at Fairview Seniors Community in…
