Readers Write, January 26, 2024
Categories: OpinionLiterature saves lives Your editorial and feature interview with Di Brandt struck a chord (“Poetic justice,” September 22, 2023). I have been reading Brandt’s poetry and essays for decades; her…
Seek the blessing of your city
“That’s great!” That is my usual response when I speak with individuals and churches who name a desire to engage their neighbourhoods more actively, or to be a mission presence…
God on the line
Categories: OpinionIn this new joint column, the four writers will take turns writing the primary column, with the other three offering replies. God on the line By Ryan Dueck I recently…
On loneliness and lifelines
Categories: OpinionThis most recent December terrified me. Moving to Toronto in the first year of the pandemic and certain events since mean I haven’t made many social connections in this city.…
New church launches in Kelowna
Categories: NewsThe new year has brought a new church to the Glenmore area of Kelowna, and it has given an old church building new life. Valley Road Church, a ministry of…
The power of the pencil
Categories: NewsWhen it comes to making art, Alvin Pauls isn’t concerned with the outcome. “It’s all in the doing,” the Winnipeg artist says. “The end result is not important.” Dressed in…
Mennonite Action: Arrests at peaceful protest
On January 16, approximately 350 Mennonites from across the U.S. met in Washington, D.C. to protest the violence in Gaza. Organized by Mennonite Action, a new grassroots group, they took…
‘We’re capable of lots of things’
Categories: NewsWelcome to “Life in the 80s,” a semi-regular series in which we ask people in their 80s or 90s to share their wisdom. Margaret Balzer (nee Epp), 82, grew up…
MC Sask appoints new executive minister
Mennonite Church Saskatchewan has appointed Len Rempel as new executive minister. Rempel will take over from Gary Peters, the current interim executive minister, in early June. Rempel has previously held…
‘Maria and the Mennos’ now streaming
A half-hour show following a young Filipino-Canadian woman who marries into a Mennonite family and moves in with her in-laws in Winkler, Manitoba, is now streaming. Maria and the Mennos…
MCC blanket blitz returns
Mennonite Central Committee invites churches, groups and individuals to hold or attend comforter-knotting blitzes during January and February as part of the annual Great Winter Warm-up. Last year, MCC shipped…
Resource centre finds temporary home in Winnipeg church
Categories: NewsIt’s brighter than ever in the basement at First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. Sunshine House, a community drop-in and resource centre, is operating there temporarily while its headquarters undergoes renovations. …
Pursuing a career in worship music
Categories: NewsWhile pursuing degrees in health studies and music at the University of Waterloo, Mykayla Turner stumbled into a plethora of worship songs that left her wondering why and how she’d…
B.C. churches mark Christmas and New Year’s
Categories: NewsMennonites in British Columbia celebrated the holidays in a variety of ways last month. With both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve falling on Sundays, churches were presented with the…
Landing out of hot water
Categories: NewsOne winter day in 2022, our family was discussing the problem of our society’s dependence on fossil fuels. One of our young-adult sons, who perhaps felt we were slipping into…
Readers write: January 12, 2024
Categories: Readers WriteTouched by death and life After reading the November 3 issue of Canadian Mennonite, which focuses on Gaza, where so many people are dying (“Attending to war”), contrasted with people…
Cat train
Categories: ViewpointsIn this Mennonite Pioneer Mission photo, a “cat train,” powered by a caterpillar tractor, travels along an ice road, hauling supplies to northern Manitoba communities in the 1950s. Ice roads…
The state of community in 2024
Last year was a tough one. Global concerns raged around us, including images of climate crisis and state-led violence that continued to swirl. I watched my church community formally come…
Linking membership and participation
Categories: OpinionIt will soon be congregational annual meeting season. Do you look forward to these meetings? Are they well attended in your congregation? In my congregation, the number of people who…
Beyond boxes
Categories: OpinionMost of you have heard, and likely agree with, this statement: “You can’t put God in a box.” Of course, this means you can’t be put in a box either,…
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