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Knitting project portrayed as pilgrimage
Categories: PeopleThe audience was absolutely amazed when Kirk Dunn finally revealed his “Stitched Glass” knitted panels at the end of his one-man show, The Knitting Pilgrim, held at Floradale Mennonite Church…
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Expiring City
Categories: PeopleMichael Veith grew up across the world in Macau, where his parents were Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers. This November, seven years after moving to Canada, he launched a photo…
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‘We don’t have to stop just because someone says no’
Categories: Web FirstAna Iris Constante says she used to be nervous just to introduce herself. She would never have guessed that one day she would be part of a group of women…
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Imagining peace 30 years after the Berlin Wall
On Nov. 9, 1989, I held on to my mother’s hand as hard as I could as we pushed through the crowds on the dark streets of Bonn, the capital…
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Prayer and the lumberjack
I was working from home early last month when the doorbell rang. A delivery man handed me a box. An initial shake gave me the impression it contained books. Occasionally…
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Watch: ‘Peace be with you’ in nine languages
Categories: Web FirstPeace Sunday is coming up on Nov. 10 and Ontario Mennonite Music Camp has created a resource to help churches mark the occasion. In the short video below, OMMC campers…
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Ethiopia’s Meserete Kristos College at 25
Categories: Web FirstThe beginning of 2019 marked the silver anniversary of Meserete Kristos College. In January 1994, there were only a handful of Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) leaders trained in Bible or…
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Going deeper together
Categories: EditorialIf you have been paying attention to what the regional churches are up to recently, you may have noticed a common question and a common longing. A question expressed at…
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‘Taste and see that stuff is good’
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe human struggle has always been—and always will be—between worshiping the God who made us or worshiping a god that we have to make for ourselves. Secularism is a myth…
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Readers write: November 11, 2019 issue
Categories: Opinion‘This is our church’ Re: “How to talk about money at your church,” Sept. 30, page 10. I read this Viewpoint piece, which I thought may give me insight…
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I smile because I’m grateful
Categories: OpinionThere’s canola in my bed and it makes me smile. Perhaps I should explain. Currently, harvest is in full gear. I see my husband at mealtimes (maybe), and when he…
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Speed sprayer
Categories: OpinionReaders raised on fruit farms—including this archivist—may remember the high-pitched whine of an orchard pesticide sprayer in action. Pictured, Peter J. Sawatzky of Ruthven, Ont., is operating a “speed-sprayer” in…
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Allow a little child to lead you
Categories: OpinionMy good memories of Thanksgiving 2019 will be focused on children. On Oct. 13, I preached a sermon at Grace Mennonite in Prince Albert. Church culture has me arriving an…
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Confronting a drastic future
Categories: OpinionIt’s been a month since Greta Thunberg—the 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden—came to my town for a climate rally. The Edmonton reception was decidedly mixed. One reception was evidenced by…
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Many people, one church
Categories: NewsOn Peace Sunday, Nov. 10, five metro Vancouver Mennonite Church British Columbia congregations gathered for a service of unity with a focus on peace. They met at Peace Church on…
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A plausible, persistent passion
Categories: PeopleOn a spring morning in 1970, Henry Regier walked out of the residence assigned to guest lecturers at the University of Wisconsin and turned east. Student riots related to the…
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‘Jesus Christ is present here’
Categories: People“Jesus Christ is present here. Alleluia!” sang enthusiastic worshippers in many languages to begin the fourth annual Mennonite Church Eastern Canada multicultural Mission Festival, held on Oct. 26 at First…
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Trudeau 2.0
Categories: NewsJustin Trudeau has another four years to make a mark. (Photo by the Office of the President of the United States) While many candidates in the fall election campaign appealed…
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Roméo Saganash visits CMU
Categories: NewsCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) students, staff and faculty gathered on Oct. 16 to hear Roméo Saganash speak on how Indigenous political leaders are keeping up the fight to see the…
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A fuller explanation of the AMBS presidential search
Categories: NewsFollowing the appointment of the next president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), details are emerging regarding what led the search committee to enter an “extended discernment” period and, in…
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