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Calgary pastor appointed as MC Canada’s executive minister
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada is pleased to announce that Doug Klassen has accepted the call to the position of executive minister. “It is an exciting time in Mennonite Church Canada. I…
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MC Canada addresses Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
The five regional churches comprising Mennonite Church Canada have issued an invitation to “all congregations to join in a nationwide call to prayer for comfort and strength for our Jewish…
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Stories of generosity
Categories: EditorialThe young couple was living far from home, juggling college studies and part-time work, in preparation for overseas missionary work. Their first child was due and then complications set in.…
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Full stomach, faulty memory
Categories: Feature ArticlesWe are daily awash in choices and opportunities, and many of us are affluent enough to be able to choose among many options. Many of us make many choices even…
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Readers write: November 5, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsStory on Manitoba prison ministry lauded Re: “Paying attention to the invisible,” Sept. 10, page 17. Many thanks for the fine article about our prison ministry program. On Oct.…
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Listen to the silence
Categories: ViewpointsRecently, I heard a story about a young prince named Hullabaloo. He lived in a land where everyone and everything was noisy. When people talked, they shouted at each other.…
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Oma’s Peppernuts
Categories: ViewpointsThis recipe for Pfeffernusse (peppernuts) is from my Oma (grandmother) Maria (Wiebe) Kroeger and my mother Helen. (See more at “Family tradition goes back 500 years.”) Ingredients 2 cups butter…
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Worship happened
Categories: ViewpointsThe small church where I pastor, Grace Mennonite Church in Prince Albert, Sask., is probably not often accused of being “high church.” A few weeks ago, the service began with…
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‘I’m sorry:’ Apologies and abuse
Categories: ViewpointsWhat role do apologies play in healing from abuse? We may feel that we can’t go wrong by offering an apology. We encourage people to apologize to each other in…
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Family tradition goes back 500 years
Categories: Viewpoints“Pfeffernusse,” Dora repeated after me in amazement! She couldn’t believe that my Christmas treats were the same as hers. It was Nov. 7, 2002, and we were sitting around the…
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Johnny Kehler
Categories: ViewpointsJohnny Kehler, left, with his plane and George Groening, at Matheson Island, Man. Groening grew up near Lowe Farm, Man., and served the Mennonite church community for decades. As a…
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What moves you?
Categories: UncategorizedA big thank you to our 75 participants on 12 teams, and to our generous Mennonite Church Canada family who sponsored these riders in this year’s Ride for Refuge event…
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From grief to gratitude
Categories: UncategorizedMoments in time can change the course of history. Decisions made in Russia in the years following the Russian Revolution in 1917 changed life for thousands of Mennonite families. On…
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Modern ghosts of a horse-drawn scandal, Part 3
Categories: UncategorizedEight men went to prison, the media gaze moved on, and colony life resumed. But the saga of mass rape in the Bolivian corner of our family of faith is…
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‘Leaving behind what wasn’t healthy’
Categories: UncategorizedZoar Mennonite Church in Langham has a new home—and a new name. When the congregation discovered black mould growing in the basement of its old church building some years ago,…
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‘It’s not too late’
Categories: UncategorizedPublic recognition of the traditional territory of First Nation groups that were signatories to specific treaties is a fairly new concept in Canada. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, a panellist at the…
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Congratulations, Simon Eng
Categories: UncategorizedEvery Tuesday, the bell at the front desk of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Alberta headquarters in Calgary dings incessantly, whether a receptionist is sitting there or not. “Hi, Simon!”…
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Journey with Alzheimer’s takes humour and resilience
Categories: ArtbeatBird-Bent Grass truly is a “memoir, in pieces” as it explores the lives of Kathleen Venema and her mother, with anecdotes from the past, excerpts from old letters and reflections…
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Lost and found
Categories: UncategorizedWe love boundaries. These boundaries may help us to define who we are, but they also can lead us to assume we know others based on appearances. Most of the…
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Avoiding avoidance
Categories: UncategorizedDo you ever find yourself starting something and not completing it? If so, then you’re familiar with avoidance behaviours. Avoidance is the set of things we do to distract ourselves…
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