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Words to the wise
Categories: Web FirstAt the age of 18, most young people are making the transition from high school to whatever comes next. It’s a formative time with many possibilities. So Canadian Mennonite asked…
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The end in mind
Categories: Web FirstHow will people remember you when you die? That’s the question at the heart of “Stone Cutter,” one of the key tracks on Etch Your Own Stone, the new album…
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Ride in support of MC Canada Witness
Mennonite Church Canada congregations are invited to participate in Ride for Refuge, a fun, ride/walk fundraising event in support of the nationwide church’s international Witness ministry, on Sept. 29. Last…
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A Prayer for the Danforth
Categories: Web FirstOh God of Love, Maker of human neighbours and neighbourhoods, Hear our prayer from the Danforth, for the Danforth. Hear our cry of anguish and disorientation; Our sidewalk cafes are…
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Broken glass angels provide hope and jobs
Categories: Web FirstOriginally, they were made of pieces of broken glass from the rubble an Israeli tank left behind when it slammed into the gift shop at the International Centre of Bethlehem…
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Thank you for letting us know
Categories: Editorial“I enjoy the magazine very much. Will you keep printing it? I don’t have a computer,” wrote a reader in British Columbia this June. She was responding to our spring…
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Remembering my baptism
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was baptized on an Easter Sunday morning, in the midst of a beautiful service celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. By the first rays of morning light, we greeted each…
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Readers write: July 23, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsCalling suicide selfish is uncharitable Re: “Suicide may not be painless, but it is selfish,” July 2, 2018, page 7. Victor Huebert writes that suicide “is a very selfish act…
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Regionalism is coming. No thanks!
Categories: ViewpointsI’m more and more dismayed by the regionalizing trajectory we seem to be on. From national and international politics to neighbourhoods and churches, it feels like we are contracting our…
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Food and love are entangled
Categories: ViewpointsLike many women I know, my mother carries a deeply ingrained impulse to feed others. Once I watched her tend Penguin, her black and white tuxedo cat, clucking and fussing…
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Mosquitoes are part of life
Categories: ViewpointsI recently told someone that our family holiday plans this summer included tenting for 10 days in northern Ontario. They replied, “Why on earth would you do that? That sounds…
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Response to ‘From belief to belonging’
Categories: ViewpointsUpdate: In October 2020, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada announced the termination of the ministerial credentials of John D. Rempel, on the basis of ministerial sexual misconduct. To learn more, see ‘Credentials…
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Home children
Categories: ViewpointsGeorge Bryant (standing) was a long way from the home of his birth when he posed with the Katie and Christian Bender family in about 1917. George was a British…
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Creole-speaking congregation joins MCEC
Categories: UncategorizedWesterne Joseph has been in Canada for ten years. The political situation in Haiti meant that he, his wife and their children had to flee, landing in Canada as refugees.…
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Buildings crumble but faith remains
Categories: UncategorizedIn the old city of Aleppo, Syria, Rev. Ibrahim Nseir stands on the pile of rubble that used to be his church. The building where his congregation once worshipped is…
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Mennonites attend Indigenous theological studies symposium
Categories: UncategorizedThe 20-or-so Mennonites who attended the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies (NAIITS) symposium were humbled by the grace of their hosts who welcomed them, without hesitation, into the…
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Edmonton store to contribute to Ten Thousand Villages sustainability plan
Categories: UncategorizedOn June 27, 2018, supporters of the Edmonton Ten Thousand Villages (TTV) store voted overwhelmingly to grant its board the authority to gift $100,000 to the TTV program of Mennonite…
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UNDRIP: Good news for everyone
Categories: UncategorizedCanada has violated the rights of its Indigenous peoples ever since the country was born, from forcing thousands of children into residential schools to disrespecting treaties and stealing land. In…
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Blooming Positive Project responds to theft
Categories: UncategorizedIn the early summer the staff at Communitas Supportive Care Society arrived at work to discover that someone had stolen the floral hanging baskets from the front of their office…
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Good food enhances camp ministry
Categories: UncategorizedEvery summer Melita Penner and her daughter, Denelda Fast, spend a week cooking for summer camp at Shekinah Retreat Centre, north of Waldheim, Sask. They’ve been doing it for 15…
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