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The gift of imagination
Categories: OpinionI remember the feeling with such clarity: that furious, terrified, sick-to-your-stomach despair one feels when you are numerous pages into writing an academic paper and the computer freezes and you’re unsure…
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Climate change as a spiritual crisis
Categories: OpinionWhen Luke Gascho and Jennifer Schrock of Goshen College’s Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center invited me to help lead efforts to engage Mennonite churches on climate change, it felt like…
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‘In the end, we’re all neighbours’
Categories: NewsHow do people respond to the strong rhetoric of polarization that is gripping the world? How can they listen and talk to people that are different from them? And why…
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MC B.C. explores ‘connections’
Categories: News“Connections: God’s church in the 21st century” was the theme when 143 delegates gathered on Feb. 29 for Mennonite Church British Columbia’s annual general meeting at Cedar Valley Mennonite Church.…
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MC Canada, regional churches launch new websites
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada and its five regional churches all launched new websites over the course of a week in mid-February. The sites are part of a developing website hub created…
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Balancing competitiveness and learning
Categories: PeopleWinning awards is nothing new for Adam Ens. Maybe that’s why he expressed surprise when his whole family planned to show up for his induction into the Canada West Hall…
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Cross-cultural challenges and blessings
Categories: PeopleLynell Bergen exchanged the snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures of a Winnipeg winter this year for the warm sunshine and mountains of Ethiopia. Bergen is a pastor of Hope Mennonite Church…
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Takin’ care of his musical business
Categories: PeopleIn the front yard of an average looking home lies a large rock with a landscaped garden bed around it. The rock reads “JAYCELAND’ and bears a lightning bolt with…
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Where are they now?
Categories: PeopleWhen Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers Greg Rabus and Jennifer Otto landed in Lethbridge, Alta., in 2018, with their sons Alex, and Ian, they were not sure what their new…
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‘There was no stopping Doris’
Categories: PeopleTrailblazer, pioneer, role model and mentor. Inquisitive, passionate, open-minded. This is how Doris Gascho was described by family, friends, fellow church members and colleagues at a legacy and 87th-birthday celebration…
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Words that bear repeating
Categories: Web FirstThanks to a shift in approach, Tuesday all-campus worship gatherings at Canadian Mennonite University are attracting a better, more consistent turnout from the student body. Danielle Morton. (Photo courtesy of…
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Water from stone
Categories: Web FirstWith a series of quick, practiced strokes, Aïchatou Hamidou clears the area around a newly built latrine with a long broom made from dry grass. After the trash and waste…
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Watch: Eco-anxiety spurs creativity
Categories: Web FirstHow do you reckon with the feeling that everything is changing? That sense that crises are converging? With the notion that we have some big choices to make individually and…
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Grebel celebrates HeForShe IMPACT
Categories: Web FirstStudents, staff, and faculty at Conrad Grebel University College took time during their weekly Community Supper one evening in January to reflect on what HeForShe has meant for them at…
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Report names Jean Vanier as an abuser
Categories: Web First – OpinionOn Feb. 22, L’Arche International released a summary report of the abuse investigation of their deceased founder, Jean Vanier. It concluded he had sexually abused six women over a period…
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The perfect complexity of Coastal GasLink protests
Categories: Web First – OpinionIn 2012, I spent two memorable hours in Smithers, B.C., with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks (John Ridsdale), one of the chiefs at the centre of the Coastal GasLink crisis now…
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In response to blockades: prayerful pause
Many across this land are wondering how to respond to protesters blocking rail lines, ports and government offices in solidarity with Indigenous groups who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline in…
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Structure and identity
Categories: OpinionAfter Gathering 2019 last summer, Doug Klassen, then newly hired as executive minister of Mennonite Church Canada, sat down with me for a chat in the Abbotsford, B.C., airport. Amid…
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‘Marvellous . . . yet so repulsive’
Categories: Feature ArticlesSoren Kierkegaard once famously said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” So often it’s only after we’ve lived through something that we can look…
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Readers write: March 2, 2020 issue
Categories: OpinionReader pans new Trumpian Middle East peace plan, favours ‘one state’ solution Having worked in the private agriculture sector with various Middle East countries, including Israel, for 45 years, I…
