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A supportive space
Categories: UncategorizedThe mission of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is to create space for the global Anabaptist family to meet together. Much of the time, it is fulfilled virtually, on social media…
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#ChurchToo conference tackles painful subject
Categories: UncategorizedMany troubling issues and questions arise when a Christian leader engages in professional sexual misconduct. At the #ChurchToo conference at Columbia Bible College over two days in late May 2018,…
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A Bible comes home
Categories: UncategorizedOn May 12, some 125 people gathered at Conrad Grebel University College for an unusual homecoming celebration—for a Bible. This large, centuries-old book is a part of Ontario Amish Mennonite…
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Faith and fixing at the Repair Café
Categories: UncategorizedFour years ago, my father Albert Kiang passed away. He was the ultimate Mr. Fix It, whether it was cars, computers or electronics. He was always tinkering away. When he…
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Good neighbours, good food
Categories: Uncategorized“In my walk with the food bank,” says Wilmer Froese, “I feel like I am putting my faith into action, and doing so in a more deliberate way than I…
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Influential writer also a flawed earthen vessel
Categories: UncategorizedFor his funeral text, Urie Bender chose the passage from II Corinthians 4:7: “We have this treasure in earthen vessels” (KJV). In his meditation at the funeral, Scott Brubaker-Zehr, pastor…
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Picture perfect
Categories: UncategorizedJay Siemens was set to begin photography school in Winnipeg when, three days before classes started, his friend called him with a compelling proposition. “He said, ‘You’ve got to drop…
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Taking charge
Categories: UncategorizedTwo young women from Mennonite Church Canada congregations are the creators of a new podcast about entrepreneurship. Katie Steckly from Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont., and Katie Bentz…
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True connections
Categories: UncategorizedWalk into Hagar Association, a school in Be’er-Sheva, Israel, and it looks like almost any other school. But if you listen closely, you’ll hear children speaking both Hebrew and Arabic,…
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Building peace through teaching English
Categories: Web FirstTransformative. That’s the word Cheryl Woelk uses to describe the impact of language teaching and learning on human relationships. She recently co-authored a book on the subject, together with Jan…
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Travel company and MCC collaborate for mutual benefit
Categories: Web FirstRecognizing shared values and an overlap between TourMagination travellers and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) donors, the for-profit business and non-profit organization recently signed a memorandum of understanding signaling their desire…
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Mennonite pastors and scholars involved in ecumenical gathering
Categories: Web First“I wonder whether Jesus’ call for Christian unity isn’t an invitation to focus on what unites rather than divides us, in order to see that everyone brings something valuable to…
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Venezuelan Mennonites share faith through food and shampoo
Categories: Web FirstIn the midst of constant inflation and economic uncertainty, Venezuelan Mennonites minister creatively in and through their churches, sharing food and supporting their communities. Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Oriente (Evangelical…
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Voices Together announced as title for new hymnal
Categories: Web FirstThe new worship and song collection for Mennonite Church U.S.A. and MC Canada will be called Voices Together. “In early February, more than 900 people responded to a title…
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Bluffton archivist tells story of Ephrata ‘Martyrs Mirror’
Categories: Web FirstAt Bluffton (Ohio) University’s Musselman Library, archivist Carrie Phillips stores seven copies of the 1748 edition of the Ephrata Martyrs Mirror in boxes specially designed to keep them preserved. But…
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Building a new thing
Categories: EditorialIn April 2018, two U.S.-based Mennonite publications—The Mennonite and Mennonite World Review—announced plans to merge by 2019. The merger is the result of talks that started in 2016, and…
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Paving the way to the Promised Land
Categories: Feature Articles“You don’t go quickly from Egypt to the Promised Land,” quips Harold Schlegel. “The wilderness is where God forms us.” The wilderness Schlegel speaks of is the transition in a…
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Readers write: June 4, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsIt’s not easy being single in the church There were never many girls my age at the Mennonite church in Scarborough, Ont., prior to my adolescent years, nor did…
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Living into all our relations
Categories: ViewpointsIn these recent years of walking with our Indigenous neighbours, I have been both blessed and intrigued by the words of encouragement often expressed at the end of a…
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From mountain to plain and back again
Categories: ViewpointsMountaintop experiences. Those moments where God is undeniably present. When he shows up in power and glory. We are left riding high on a spiritual wave, convinced that God…
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