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Barry’s butter tart recipe
Categories: PeopleRead the story behind this recipe here. Pastry: 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ tsp. salt ¾ cup shortening ½ to ¾ cup ice-cold water Stir together the flour…
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A lifetime of taking pictures
Categories: PeopleHenry Harms once owned a thousand cameras. He still has a closet full of them. They bear witness to a life-long love of photography. Harms was 9 when he bought…
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‘I hear you, I see you’
Categories: Web First“Youth need to experience God for themselves. . . . We need to offer Jesus to our youth,” said Michele Hershberger, a Bible and ministry professor and department chair from…
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MCC invites community to participate in day of prayer
Kitchener, Ont.—In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mennonite Central Committee is inviting supporters to join the organization in a day of prayer on Wednesday, March 25. “Times of uncertainty call…
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Discussing the future of an inclusive church
Categories: Web FirstTwenty-three people gathered in the basement of Hamilton (Ont.) Mennonite Church, together with remote groups in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary, to discuss the future of In This Together (ITT):…
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The Mennonite, MWR announce name of new journalistic ministry
The name of the new independent, multiplatform journalistic ministry being created by the merger of The Mennonite and Mennonite World Review will be Anabaptist World. The new ministry’s platforms will…
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Is technology on ‘Team Human’?
Categories: Web FirstElkhart, Ind.—In an age when people turn instinctively to Siri for directions, Mennonite church leaders and educators found that Divine Lady Wisdom’s words from Proverbs have an amazing wealth of…
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Watch: Worship led by MC Canada leadership
Categories: Web FirstDoug Klassen, executive minister for Mennonite Church Canada, has recorded a sermon for churches to use during this time of social distancing. It is expected that many congregations will not…
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An open letter to the younger generation during this time of COVID-19
This morning I awoke thankful that my husband and I—both 75-plus—can still be part of what’s happening in our world: to observe and encourage the younger generation as they lead…
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Mennonite organizations cancelling events, making adjustments in response to COVID-19
Categories: Web FirstMennonite churches and organizations across Canada are cancelling or postponing services and other events in response to COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus. Here is a list (last updated…
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MC Canada offers pandemic preparedness web resources for congregations
Categories: Web FirstAs of March 11, the World Health Organization is now describing the global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 as a pandemic. This move is not to incite fear but to…
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Mennonite World Conference cancels event, meetings in B.C.
Categories: Web FirstWith the World Health Organization using the word “pandemic” to describe global infection from the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Mennonite World Conference leadership has cancelled the March Renewal 2027 public event…
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MDS receives grant from Canadian Red Cross
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada’s efforts to assist people whose homes were damaged by spring floods in the Minden, Ottawa and Renfrew, Ont., areas will be enhanced by a grant…
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Having Jesus for dinner
You know what is one of the most exciting things ever? Having Jesus for dinner. I don’t mean the Lord’s Supper. I mean having Jesus over, as a guest, for…
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Chequebook and calendar
Categories: EditorialIn early March, the church my husband and I belong to held its annual general meeting. This year there wasn’t a lot of discussion, but Paul, the representative of the…
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Out of holy weakness, mysterious power arises
Categories: Feature ArticlesI could not have predicted the responses I got when I asked 15 Mennonite Church Canada pastors—all women—how they would explain the meaning of the cross and resurrection to a…
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Readers write: March 16, 2020 issue
Categories: OpinionComments on Wet’suwet’en article divided Re: “Who do you support when a community is divided?” Feb. 17, page 20. I believe Ross W. Muir covered the recent blockade in British…
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Living into a new imagination
Categories: OpinionOnce upon a time, around 35 years ago, God brought into the world some new people. These people have grown up to love Jesus and follow him with all of…
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Manitoba historical society
Categories: OpinionThe work of community remembering is important work. Archives, historical societies, libraries and museums all have a role in a community to remind us who we are and help point…
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‘O, you gorgeous man!’
Categories: OpinionI recently sat with a friend for lunch and conversation. I had not seen her for almost three years. At one point she reached across the table, grasped both of my…
