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Theology for a climate emergency
Categories: Web FirstStudents, scholars and community members alike filled Marpeck Commons at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) on Nov. 13, hoping to lay a firmer hold on one essential subject: Actionable theology for…
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Watch: MCEC church helps Montreal’s homeless
Categories: Web FirstMontreal has been hit with unseasonably cold weather this month, and a Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) congregation is doing what it can to help members of the city’s homeless population…
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Creation care as self-care
As the days get shorter and darker it’s worthwhile to take some time to think about the connections between creation care and self care. If you’re anything like me, the…
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Goshen College’s annual online Advent devotions to start Nov. 25
GOSHEN, Ind. — Goshen College will offer annual online weekday devotions to help believers make time and space in their hearts and minds to reflect during the season of Advent.…
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A very meaningful relationship
In the fall of 2015, members of the neighbourhood community association asked if they could use our lower auditorium at Foothills Mennonite Church here in Calgary for a group of seniors…
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What shall I wear: Sport coat or cardigan?
Categories: EditorialRecently TV sports personality Don Cherry lost his job for making disparaging comments to “You people,” which viewers and the company that employed him interpreted to apply to newcomers in…
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Proclaiming Immanuel
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was eight years old. That year, the Sunday school Christmas pageant was going to be a no-fuss event. All the kids were going to stand up in a line, each…
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Readers write: November 25, 2019 issue
Categories: OpinionPlanting forests versus fearing the future Re: “Faithful practices on a dying planet,” and “Planting trees, nurturing a dream,” Sept. 30, pages 4 and 16, respectively. I was astounded…
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‘Where there is no vision…’
Categories: Opinion“Not another visioning process” was a common reaction when I presented the idea of a year of visioning and discernment at Mennonite Church Alberta’s 2018 annual delegate sessions. The restructuring…
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Rosengart church
Categories: OpinionMennonites lived in Prussia/Poland for more than 400 years, but our understanding of the Mennonite experience in this area requires further study. This is the former Mennonite church at Rosengart…
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Choosing forgiveness
Categories: OpinionIn my work with single, high-risk mothers and women who experience abuse in intimate relationships, many conversations about forgiveness have arisen. I recently shared about choosing the path of forgiveness…
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We belong to each other
Categories: OpinionIt was Sunday morning on a Mennonite Church Canada Joint Council meeting weekend. We divided up into three groups to visit three different congregations and then we regrouped over a…
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Unlearning ‘Christianese’
Categories: Opinion“Christianese” is what some people call insider jargon Christians use to talk about God and faith. One of the primary problems with Christianese is that it doesn’t make sense to…
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Event explores Jews, Mennonites and the Holocaust
Categories: NewsAbout 80 years ago, Jews and Mennonites lived peacefully together in the Ukrainian city of Khortitsa. Then the Nazis came, and everything changed. In 1941, before the invasion, Khortitsa had…
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Fourth Symphony of Hymns a success for MC B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—Although it began only three years ago, the Symphony of Hymns is already a fall tradition to which many in Mennonite Church British Columbia look forward eagerly. In 2016,…
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Deepening the meaning of baptism
Categories: NewsAfter five years of meetings by an international commission of Mennonites, Lutherans and Roman Catholics on the topic of baptism, John Rempel, the commission’s Mennonite representative, presented a trilateral report…
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Saskatchewan Mennonites changed through China learning tour
Categories: News“Everything about China was not what we thought.” Delilah Roth’s words seem to capture the feelings of many in her group. Delilah and husband Brian Roth were part of a…
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Toronto composer puts new twist on old fable
Categories: NewsIn May 2017, when Stephanie Martin stepped down as conductor of Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale, the award-winning Toronto-based amateur choir with Mennonite roots, the choir gave her a going-away present.…
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Final results of MC Alberta’s Vision 20/20 process revealed
Categories: NewsLike all Mennonite Church Canada regional churches, MC Alberta continues to pray and discern God’s call, moving forward after the nationwide restructuring a couple years ago. Representatives from across the…
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Peacebuilders Community Inc. helps earthquake victims in the Philippines
Categories: NewsIn the last half of October, the island of Mindanao in the Philippines experienced three earthquakes, one of which reached a magnitude of 6.6. According to a Nov. 11 report…
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