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Studying the Bible through a feminist lens
Categories: UncategorizedAround 10 women and female-identifying people sit in a circle at Erb Street Mennonite Church in Waterloo, every week, drinking tea and discussing biblical texts through a feminist lens. Jessica…
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‘Just doing my best’
Categories: UncategorizedGrace Kang can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making art. As a child, “I was always drawing, I was always writing stories,” the 22-year-old says. When she learned that…
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Supplying food to people displaced by violence
Categories: Web FirstAgnès Ntumba remembers the day her husband and seven children fled the violence that took over their village in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I saw…
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Building shalom in the Philippines
Categories: Web FirstJoji Pantoja and her husband Dann serve in the Philippines as Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers. Following the September 11, 2001, attack in New York City, Dann in particular felt…
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European Mennonites anticipate diverse gathering
Categories: Web FirstEuropean Mennonites gather every six years for worship and fellowship. This spring, the European Mennonite Conference will be the most diverse gathering yet. Organizers anticipate that about 1,500 Mennonites from…
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New network to encourage, support and connect peacebuilders
Categories: Web FirstMennonite World Conference (MWC) member churches around the world act out of the belief that the Spirit of Jesus empowers them to become peacemakers who renounce violence, love their enemies,…
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Humboldt Broncos tragedy has Mennonite connections
Categories: Web FirstThe horrific collision that claimed the lives of 15 people, most of whom were players and coaches with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team, had several Mennonite connections. The accident occurred…
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Open letter on Syria
Categories: Web First“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it” (I Cor. 12:26). In February, we were part of a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) delegation to Syria, including Damascus, Homs, Hama…
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Ugly stories
Categories: EditorialI don’t like the cover of today’s issue. I don’t want to see it lying on my coffee table. You probably don’t either. At the top, a large uniformed man…
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When will we say we need you?
Categories: Feature ArticlesImmediately after finishing with undergraduate school in 2008, I went down to Mexico to help translate for a mission trip that my mom and younger brother were taking with my…
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Readers write: April 9, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsFeature writer breaks faith with Paul’s word to the Corinthians Re: “Unity of the Spirit,” Feb. 26, page 4. I found the adapted presentation of Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld…
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Ordinary discipleship
Categories: ViewpointsHow comfortable are you with change? Change seems to be the most consistent “unchanging” reality of our lives. We are always experiencing change. Thankfully many, or even most, of the…
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Confession of a ‘road rage pastor’
Categories: ViewpointsI’ve had a bit of a road rage problem. It peeves me when I need to throw on the brakes because another vehicle pulled out in front of me. Sadly,…
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Kitchener-Waterloo House Church
Categories: ViewpointsFamilies of the Kitchener-Waterloo House Churches sing hymns around a piano in 1974. This particular house church began services in 1969. North American Mennonites rediscovered the house-church model, first described…
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Tending and befriending
Categories: ViewpointsFrom time immemorial—as the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi illustrates—developing friendships and tending relationships have often been a woman’s “go-to, our have-to, our live for,” especially during times of…
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An eye-witness account of Nazi occupation
Categories: Books & ResourcesAt the age of 85, I am probably one of the few survivors of the German occupation of Ukraine/Russia from 1941 to 1943 who still have clear personal memories of…
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Mennonites respond to Palestinian church
Categories: UncategorizedChristians in the land where Christianity started have asked sisters and brothers around the world for help. In response to these pleas from Palestinian churches—with whom Mennonites have long-standing relations—delegates…
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‘Fun in the Son’ keeps ’em coming back
Categories: UncategorizedSpring break comes and students are home from school. What are parents to do to keep them occupied? Crossroads Community Church of Chilliwack, a Mennonite Church B.C. congregation, has the…
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Bridging Borders in the ‘City of Bridges’
Categories: UncategorizedA new television documentary series featuring the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan is currently airing on City-Saskatchewan TV. Bridging Borders is a six-episode series produced by Wavelength Entertainment,…
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MC Alberta celebrates a ‘church born anew’
Categories: UncategorizedAt the last minute, Lethbridge Mennonite Church had to scramble to host the 2018 Mennonite Church Alberta delegate assembly. Already working hard to finish entrance and meeting room renovations, a…
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