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A-ha moments in the Holy Land
Categories: Web FirstDavid Chow recalls sitting in Sunday school as a child and learning about what the nation of Israel meant for Christians in a traditional Christian Missionary Alliance congregation in Calgary,…
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Willard Metzger to complete term with MC Canada
Categories: Web FirstAfter careful consideration and prayer during meetings in Toronto on May 5 and 6, the Joint Council of Mennonite Church Canada discerned with executive director Willard Metzger that it was…
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Gifts of the table
Categories: EditorialRecently, my husband and I sat with friends at a table in an Ethiopian restaurant. As we dipped pieces of injera (sourdough flatbread) into the tasty sauces, we reported…
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An empty bowl
Categories: Feature Articles“Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended…
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Peppernuts and anarsa
Categories: Feature ArticlesI recently learned to eat anarsa—a sweet, rice-based treat—while travelling in India visiting with Mennonite women, and learning about their religious lives and food practices. It was late February, but…
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Readers write: May 7, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsResurrection feature re-opens old wounds Re: “Is belief in Jesus’ resurrection necessary?” feature, March 12, page 4. The final sentence in Michael Pahl’s feature notwithstanding, both the title and content…
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Wandering in the wilderness
Categories: ViewpointsThis past weekend, I was invited to one of our small rural congregations to help it discern the future. The concern, as expressed by the congregation, is that if the…
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The message and the messengers of salvation
Categories: ViewpointsIt is truly remarkable that through hell and high water, the good news of Jesus has arrived to me, today, in 2018, in Canada. This is a miracle of God.…
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Mennonite pancakes
Categories: ViewpointsPancakes played a role in the story told in “Mennonites connect over pancakes.” Here is a tasty recipe. In various Mennonite recipe books, this traditional “Russian Mennonite” fare is identified…
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Mennonites connect over pancakes
Categories: ViewpointsIt was more than 20 years ago when two Mennonites from Germany travelled to Ethiopia to explore the possibility of doing mission work with the Mennonite church there. After two…
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Shoplifting
Categories: ViewpointsUnder the watchful eye of a Kitchener, Ont., store owner, a teenager browses the record collection. Shortly, she will slip one into her bag, and the owner will catch her…
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Celebrating what was, anticipating what will be
Categories: Uncategorized“We celebrated 108 years of life in that building,” said Ed Bueckert, referring to Zoar Mennonite Church’s sanctuary in Langham, which faces imminent closure. About 110 members, former members, friends…
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‘A rich storehouse of treasure awaiting learners’
Categories: UncategorizedScripture and community were the focus when Mennonite Church B.C. members gathered at Level Ground Mennonite Church in Abbotsford on April 14, 2018, for Reading the Bible Together. Resource person…
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When strangers become neighbours
Categories: UncategorizedMusic continues to be the catalyst for growth in the relationship between Mennonite Church Saskatchewan and its Indigenous neighbours. On Earth Day, April 22, 2018, Mennonites and members of the…
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Caring for creation, one ice cream pail at a time
Categories: UncategorizedPeople hear every day about garbage mountains growing, icebergs melting and species going extinct. With every plastic bag and old cell phone people throw away, they are contributing to the…
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Foodgrains Bank brews climate storm on Twitter
Categories: UncategorizedThe Canadian Foodgrains Bank walks a fine line on climate and walks it well. A recent and rare slip demonstrated the tensions it, like the rest of us, must navigate.…
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Full Cupboard provides emergency help in Wellesley
Categories: UncategorizedFour years ago, while part of a missional leadership group, Kara Carter, pastor of Wellesley Mennonite Church, received news from the local school parents advisory group that there were children…
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A must-see for all Canadians
Categories: ArtbeatOnly in the last decade has the extent of Canada’s mistreatment of its Indigenous peoples been widely recognized. The most horrific example of this mistreatment was the residential school…
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Wrestling with challenging texts
Categories: UncategorizedMost upper-level university classes end with a final essay, not a photography project, prayerful meditations or a “yarn-bombed” tree. Sheila Klassen-Wiebe, however, took the road less travelled for Feminist Perspectives…
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Working together for the common good
Categories: UncategorizedThis past March, I participated in an interfaith dialogue for young people in Vancouver, hosted by the Armenian Diocese of Canada. The week-long event, entitled Celebrating Our Diversity Now, was…
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