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From hand to hand: the journey to North Korea
Categories: Web FirstIt’s been a long trek for eight small bags of medical supplies. They have been packed and re-packed, crossed an ocean, passed through three countries and numerous airport security checks.…
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Singer-songwriter leads ‘Reading the Bible with Jesus’ workshops
Categories: Web FirstBryan Moyer Suderman believes that paying attention to Jesus as interpreter of Scripture can transform how we, too, engage Scripture and each other. The singer-songwriter and Bible teacher from Kitchener,…
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Argentine Mennonites celebrate one hundred years
Categories: Web FirstPerforming before hundreds of Mennonites and passersby at a park in downtown Buenos Aires, a drama troupe from the Mennonite church in Villa Adelina, Argentina, mimed challenges and struggles facing…
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‘The level of mechanization was amazing to witness’
Categories: Web FirstFor John Mbae, a Canadian Foodgrains Bank conservation agriculture technical specialist based in Kenya, a visit to the Canadian Prairies was informative and inspiring. “I had the privilege of staying…
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Once Round the Barn: LBGTQ Edition
Categories: OpinionWith a nod to Ranting Rick Mercer, senior writer Will Braun steps into the mess that is the church’s disagreement over same-sex inclusion. The Maple View insert appeared…
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We are so swift to judge
Categories: EditorialIn the days immediately following our publication of the sexuality statement by Maple View Mennonite Church, several people wrote letters in outrage. Two cancelled their subscriptions. The insert appeared in…
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Peace is everyone’s business
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe political scientist Harold Lasswell once defined politics to be “who gets what, when and how.” If that is politics, peace studies in contrast can be seen as an attempt…
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Readers write: January 29, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsWhen community discernment leads to a golden calf Re: “Recognizing potential in an uncertain future,” Dec. 11, 2017. When I read, at the very end of the article, that…
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All gifts are important
Categories: ViewpointsSometimes when I am very tired or discouraged, or both, I have trouble trusting God. I read the lovely promises that Paul writes to the church in Corinth and…
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One word
Categories: ViewpointsA year ago, a friend issued a challenge. He urged me to select one word as the word for me in 2017. A word on which to focus and meditate.…
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Does your financial plan include giving?
Categories: ViewpointsIn the early years of our marriage, my wife Sharon and I often sat through our pastor’s annual sermon on tithing consumed by the feeling that we should do more.…
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Love is acceptance and transformation
Categories: ViewpointsDoes loving people and things as they are mean accepting them as they are? If so, what are we to do with the call to join the Spirit’s transformative work…
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Bloodvein Reserve
Categories: ViewpointsMany years ago, our archives first described this photograph as “School children at Bloodvein Reserve, ca. 1956.” The subject heading included the phrase, “Indians of North America,” correct for the…
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Wildwood Mennonite unplugged
Categories: UncategorizedIn this age of hectic schedules, electronic device dependency and human isolation, how can a church provide meaning, purpose and belonging? Saskatoon’s Wildwood Mennonite Church may have found an answer…
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Family celebrates permanent residency
Categories: UncategorizedThe Warkentins are ringing in 2018 as official Canadians, but the journey to reach permanent-resident status was anything but easy. Jon and Karissa Warkentin and their five children, who attend…
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Grad takes the helm of his alma mater
Categories: Focus On EducationMarcus Shantz laughs when it’s noted that the previous seven presidents of Conrad Grebel University College have all been pastors or academics, or both. “I guess the board sees that…
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A child’s world in the palm of their parents’ hands
Categories: Focus On EducationWhen most parents send their elementary-and middle-school-aged children off to school, they rely on school websites and notes in their children’s backpack to keep them informed. But one Winnipeg school…
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Drawing students ‘in’
Categories: Focus On EducationIn “Outwitted,” poet Edwin Markham writes: “He drew a circle that shut me out— / Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout. / But love and I had the wit…
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Building bridges
Categories: Focus On EducationIn 1977, an academic concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) was formally introduced at the University of Waterloo, launched by Conrad Grebel College, now Conrad Grebel University College. It…
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Rockway adds business courses to curriculum
Categories: Focus On EducationIt was with great excitement that Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener, Ont., launched a new business program last fall. Our new courses in business leadership and international business are designed…
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