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Opioid crisis: A view from the inside
Categories: OpinionTimothy King found himself addicted to opioids when complications after surgery led to intense pain and serious illness. In Addiction Nation, he describes what it feels like to be trapped…
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‘I am getting help now’
Categories: News“Close your eyes and imagine you are walking to your garden,” says Saint-Hilaire Olissaint, a community mental-health worker. His calm, soothing voice carries over the din of the nearby street…
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Murky lessons from a political firestorm
Categories: NewsAs the partisan jostling over SNC Lavalin wanes, we can more clearly examine the ethical questions at the core of a scandal that Mennonite cabinet minister Jane Philpott stepped right…
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Calgary church offers space for community events
Categories: News“Light up the church.” That’s what members of Calgary Inter-Mennonite decided they wanted to do when asked about ways to engage with their local community. What that meant for the…
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Tuesdays at Faith
Categories: NewsLike at many Mennonite churches, the back of any given pew at Faith Mennonite in Leamington includes a blue hymnal, an offering envelope, and, for the lucky few, a small,…
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B.C. Women’s Day has last-minute change
ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—When Sarah Bessey had to cancel her speaking engagement at the Mennonite Church B.C. Women’s Day 24 hours before she was to speak, organizer Janette Thiessen contemplated calling off…
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CM brings home 10 CCP awards
Categories: NewsCanadian Mennonite executive editor Virginia A. Hostetler returned from Winnipeg following the 2019 Canadian Church Press (CCP) convention and awards banquet earlier this month with a total of 10 certificates…
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‘I just want to help people’
Categories: PeopleLike many of his peers, Nathan Bartel is fielding questions about what he plans to do after graduation. But, unlike some of them, he has a ready answer. He wants…
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Pacifism and the art of theatre combat
Categories: PeopleJacqueline Loewen just spent the weekend riding a motorcycle as a stunt double for a science-fiction TV show and will be rolling on the ground with strangers tomorrow, choreographing combat…
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Canadian faces of MDS in Texas
Categories: PeopleWhat do you get when you put Mennonites from all over Canada, and from all sorts of different Mennonite conferences and churches—along with Christians from other denominations—in the same place?…
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What resilience looks like
Categories: PeopleFrom dealing with disaster to mental health recovery, partners of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Nepal and their beneficiaries demonstrate resilience. That was the theme of MCC’s first-ever trekking learning…
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What Rachel Held Evans taught me
Categories: Web First – OpinionSince Rachel Held Evans’s sudden death on May 4, the internet has been filled with tributes to the beloved Christian author and her work. Her willingness to be honest about…
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MCC assisting after Cyclone Idai
Categories: Web FirstIssa Ebombolo was not expecting the level of malnutrition he encountered among people displaced by flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai. But upon arriving in southern Malawi, where he…
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A crisis of compassion
Mennonite Central Committee’s “People on the Move: Human Rights and Global Migration” student seminar in Ottawa this past February sparked in me a new curiosity and interest in the stories…
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Remembering Rachel Held Evans
Categories: Web FirstWhen Rachel Held Evans died on May 4 at the age of 37, it shocked the thousands of people who follow her work. Through her four books, blog, social media…
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Watch: “I Am a Mennonite” trailer
Categories: Web FirstWinnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett has announced his next project: a documentary exploring his Mennonite roots. “I’m going to retrace the steps of my ancestors and find out where I came…
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Watch: International Witness update
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada has released a video that provides an update on its International Witness ministry. The video was shown at regional church gatherings over the past few months and posted…
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Holding out the Christ-light
Categories: Editorial“We can all have good mental health. It is about having a sense of purpose, strong relationships, feeling connected to our communities, knowing who we are, coping with stress and…
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When it’s hard to go to church
Categories: Feature Articles“I love my church. It is very important to me, but you won’t be seeing me on Sunday morning as often,” Cara Baergen told her congregation in a sermon preached at…
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Readers write: May 13, 2019 issue
Categories: OpinionA shotgun is ‘a tool to put meat on the table’ Re: “Swords into ploughshares, guns into art,” March 4, page 23. A great sculpture. Irian Fast-Sittler does great work;…
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