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Die Mennonitische Post appoints new editor
John Wesley Dueck has been hired as the new editor of Die Mennonitische Post after Kennert Giesbrecht stepped down. Dueck is originally from the Menno Colony in Paraguay. He began this…
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Mennonites and the state
Categories: NewsI love mosaics. Mosaics are artworks that show an image—a message—made up of many small pieces. In Christian art, it is common to find mosaics representing an image of Jesus.…
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Old Testament stories resonate with rural Colombian women
Categories: NewsThe stories of women in the Old Testament serve as an advocacy tool for Colombian women who face paramilitary and gang-related violence in rural communities. This is the outcome of…
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Pastors gather for retreat
Categories: NewsTwenty-seven Mennonite Church B.C. church leaders and their families gathered at Camp Squeah from November 3 to 5 for a weekend of renewal and relationship-building. Four worship and discussion sessions…
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Adjusting our structures
Categories: NewsIn 2017, Mennonite Church Canada put new structures into place based on the work of the Future Directions Task Force (FDTF). Over the last six years, we have been living…
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Restorative justice takes root in Zambia and Malawi
Categories: NewsA restorative justice curriculum has been introduced at 100 correctional facilities in Zambia and Malawi. In 2019, Rod Friesen, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario Restorative Justice Coordinator, was invited to…
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‘They are like angels’
Categories: Web First – Opinion“It was help from heaven. When I talk about it, I want to cry. Nobody has ever helped me like this. They are like angels.” That’s what a homeowner in…
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Churches unite for multilingual Thanksgiving service
Several Vancouver-area Mennonite congregations celebrated an early Thanksgiving together on October 1 with a worship service and fellowship meal. Sherbrooke Mennonite Church hosted the event, which included First United…
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Palestinian MCC partner providing relief amid devastation of Gaza
Categories: Web FirstThe first thing they said was “Can you help us help?” recalls Sarah Funkhouser, who, together with her husband, Seth Malone, is Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) representative for Jordan, Palestine…
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MDS responding to Carstairs tornado
Categories: Web FirstElisa Humphreys was sitting on her couch in her home in Carstairs, Alberta, when she got the emergency alert about the tornado. It was July 1 and Humphreys, 63, who…
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Hold tenderly to death
Categories: EditorialThe day before writing this marked three years since my sister died of cancer. We gathered as a family at her grave to mark the occasion. We talked about the…
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As he lay dying
Categories: Feature ArticlesThere were nineteen beds in the hospice, that’s what I heard, most of them occupied, but I paid no attention to them. When we first arrived, yes, I’d glanced into…
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Holy moments in the midst of grief
Categories: Feature ArticlesThere’s one church service that Fran Giesbrecht makes a special point not to miss: Eternity Sunday. Observed at his Winnipeg church on the last Sunday before Advent, Eternity Sunday provides…
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WWII Alternative service camp
Categories: OpinionThese men visited an alternative service camp in 1942. From left: D.P. Reimer (EMC, Steinbach), Jacob F. Barkman (Holdeman minister, Manitoba), David Schulz (Bergthaler bishop, Manitoba) and George DeFehr (Holdeman…
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Readers write: November 3, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionGratitude for foyer discussions Today I got my COVID booster. Other than a barely perceptible soreness in my arm, I have never experienced side effects from these vaccinations. When it…
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Teach us to pray
Categories: OpinionOn a Wednesday in mid-October, I’m at the auto shop for winter tires; a TV on the wall flashes tanks, rubble and protests alongside talking heads. On social media, I…
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Salt and light: Structures and policies
Categories: OpinionI like paying attention to structures and policies. My attention was caught on Sunday when the visiting preacher, Fanosie Legesse of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, said that wisdom is when…
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Invisible barriers to becoming an intercultural church
Categories: OpinionAt WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio station, a very interesting testimony appeared three years ago titled “A Dual Degree from Oxford. A Medical Degree from Harvard. Neither Protected Me from…
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Opened eyes
Categories: OpinionCharles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities nearly 200 years ago. His opening lines describe our world today, as aptly as anything published in recent years. He writes: “It…
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Part III: Who owns your church building?
Categories: OpinionThis six-part series draws on Kara Carter’s PhD studies, for which she conducted five focus groups with Mennonite Church Eastern Canada pastors. For periods of time during the pandemic,…
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