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Reaching out requires letting in
Categories: OpinionA recent CBC news article projected that 9,000 Canadian churches will close over the next 10 years. That’s approximately one-third of Canadian churches gone in a decade. It’s not news…
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Confronting the fear of our history
Categories: Opinion“Yet we Christians have also been called to take a good hard look at ourselves. To reflect on our Christian beliefs, to scrutinize our missional practices. And to decolonize. It’s…
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Catholic-Mennonite gathering planned for Winnipeg
Categories: NewsOne could say Anabaptism began as a rebellion against Catholicism. Our forebears bled and died so we could be not-Catholic. Time does not erase the past, but intervening centuries…
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Building unity in the body of Christ
Categories: NewsThere are hundreds of denominations within Christianity, and it can be easy to focus on the differences between them all. But a group of Mennonites and Anglicans is breaking through…
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Walking and talking along the trail
Categories: NewsIn solidarity with their First Nations neighbours, Mennonites in the Fraser Valley joined others in a Walk in the Spirit of Reconciliation from May 31 to June 2. The event…
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The women of Alberta rediscover Mary
Categories: News“We grew up never talking about Mary. It was like the Catholics got Mary in the divorce settlement and Mennonites got a 30-minute sermon,” said Irma Fast Dueck in her…
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‘My place is right here’
Categories: NewsIt was all about working together for the good of the local Cambridge community when Preston and Wanner Mennonite churches partnered with a local theatre group to support the work…
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Breathing new life into a centuries-old folk art tradition
Categories: NewsAn Ontario artist is enlivening a Mennonite folk-art tradition that hasn’t been widely practised for more than 150 years. Meg Harder’s six-piece exhibit, “New Fraktur,” draws on the detailed, illuminated…
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Offering the gift of non-judgmental listening
Categories: PeopleElaine Presnell has presided at around 600 funerals. That’s a number most pastors won’t achieve in a lifetime. But Presnell isn’t an ordinary pastor. For more than 10 years, she…
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Making art ‘like breathing’ for B.C. illustrator
Categories: PeopleFor Dona Park, making art is the equivalent of eating, sleeping and breathing. She does it every day because she needs to. The 24-year-old attended Goshen (Ind.) College, from which…
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MCC Saskatchewan hosts successful relief sale and auction
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan hosted its 49th annual relief sale and auction at Saskatoon’s Prairieland Park on June 7 and 8. An estimated 750 people took in a supper…
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The first signs of promise
Categories: Web FirstTwo broken chalkboards thrown by the 190-kilometre-per-hour winds of Cyclone Idai bake in the sun on what remains of the crumpled tin roof of one neighbourhood’s only preschool. In mid-March,…
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GAMEO to maintain its emphasis on the global church
GOSHEN, IND.—Reaffirming a clear commitment to a focus on groups outside of Europe and North America, the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) management board concluded its annual meeting on…
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#ChurchToo conference addresses sexual misconduct
Categories: Web FirstIn the midst of the #MeToo movement, in which those in positions of power are being called to account for sexual abuse, a conference hosted by four Manitoba Mennonite organizations…
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How do we respond to the stranger at our gate?
What is a Christian response to migration? While on a day to day basis, I tend to deal with the nuts and bolts issues of refugee resettlement and Canadian and…
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Watch: ‘Gettin’ it done’ with MDS
Categories: Web FirstThe folks who volunteer with Mennonite Disaster Service are “gettin’ it done.” We recently published a photo essay featuring Canadian Mennonites who are volunteering with MDS in Texas. Now, you can…
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Kuri talks ‘No Village’
Categories: Web FirstAlmost two years after he started recording it, Kuri has released his new album. Titled No Village, the 10-song collection came out today via Nevado Records. No Village is the…
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A living faith
Excerpt from MHEA vision statement Sara is focusing on: These schools form graduates who understand that the professional expression of their vocation will require deep roots in a living faith. Engaging the world’s…
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Between ‘Pure’ and Mennonite Heritage Week
Categories: EditorialOn the last week of May, season 2 of the crime show, Pure, started airing on the Super Channel. The show’s promotional material shows women in conservative Mennonite dress wielding…
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The gifts of grey hair
Categories: Feature Articles“O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me,…
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