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Readers ‘zoom’ to discuss Unsettling the Word
Categories: Books & ResourcesIn a large city like Toronto, attending a church small group or Bible study may not be feasible for those with families or busy schedules. But Toronto United Mennonite Church…
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Translation valuable to Swahili-speaking pastors
Categories: Books & ResourcesIn mid-February, 50 Tanzanian Mennonite Church leaders, under the guidance of Palmer Becker, a Canadian Mennonite author and teacher, studied spiritual leadership, pastoral care and Anabaptist essentials using a translation…
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From power to pathos
Categories: Books & ResourcesPeter M. and Susanna Friesen. “The story of Mennonites in Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the Soviet successor states is relatively short, beginning only in 1789. Despite this brief…
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Spring 2019 List of Books & Resources
Categories: Books & ResourcesTheology, Spirituality Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence. Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin. Brazos Press, 2019, 288 pages. Using the image of turning guns into garden…
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Women without limits
Categories: Web FirstIt’s a hot, humid morning, and Maria Elena Algarañaz de Masabi is working at a booth displaying brightly coloured handicrafts for sale. She carefully lays out cloth purses and drawstring…
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Women’s literacy grows churches, communities
Categories: Web FirstELKHART, Indiana – In the past two years, more than 260 literacy teachers have been trained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, they are helping 2,560 others learn…
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New MennoMedia.ca website launched
Herald Press books, MennoMedia Shine curriculum and periodicals are now easier for Canadians to order. This past Monday, April 1, MennoMedia launched a new website at MennoMedia.ca. The publisher is…
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A complicated relationship
Alexandra Schwartz writes a lengthy feature in the current issue of The New Yorker magazine about author Miriam Toews, who was born and raised in Steinbach, Man. Toews’ eighth…
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Ten years after ‘Points of View’
Categories: Web FirstOn April 3, 2009, southern Manitoba-based folk group the Other Brothers released Points of View. Recorded in the studio at Mennonite Church Manitoba, the album earned critical acclaim—CBC dubbed them…
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No more of this!
Categories: EditorialOne morning in the second full week of Lent, I woke up to the first sign of Easter. It had been a dreary season of violence. In the beginning of…
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Consider it (re)settled
Categories: Feature ArticlesMore than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) since it negotiated an agreement with the government on March 5, 1979. This historic agreement established…
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Readers write: April 1, 2019 issue
Categories: OpinionThoughts for the Easter season The season of Lent and Easter is a time of mystery and power. God is much bigger and more than a warm security blanket…
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Interdependence
Categories: Opinion“Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12, NIV). Most likely, you have heard these words during a…
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Graduating class
Categories: OpinionThis adorable, and very formal, group is the “graduating class” of the Steinmann Mennonite Church Kindergarten in Baden, Ont., in 1964. The Kindergarten was started in 1962 by the married…
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Can we talk about ageism?
Categories: OpinionA Winnipeg winter has many pleasures: plentiful sunshine, thick river ice for skating, cozy cafés and a wealth of artistic treasures. A Winnipeg winter is also long and challenging, hard on…
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Equally welcome
Categories: OpinionThe other day I hosted a diverse group of women from church: some single, some widowed, some married with kids, some married without kids, some in their 20s and some…
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Confession as a personal spiritual practice
Categories: OpinionThis Lenten season I find myself reflecting on the spiritual discipline of confession. What does a healthy practice of confession look like both individually and collectively? Confession played a huge…
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Considering bylaws and budgets
Categories: News“We looked at the bylaws and asked, ‘Is this what we’re actually doing?’” said Tim Wiens. “Usually the answer was ‘No.’ ” Wiens was reporting to Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate…
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MC Alberta embraces new life, hope and possibilities
Categories: NewsIt was an unusual delegate session, with the bulk of the time dedicated to discussion rather than business. “Discerning God’s call,” Phase 3 of Mennonite Church Alberta’s Vision 20/20 process,…
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Impacting the universe with the sounds we make
Categories: NewsWith her powerful, resonant voice, Ysaÿe Barnwell, composer, vocalist, speaker and former member of the African-American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, began to sing “Amazing Grace,”…
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