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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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Teaching in a flipped classroom
Categories: Focus On EducationChani Wiens, UMEI’s academic math teacher since 2009, has introduced a new style of teaching to the school: the flipped classroom. “I started to research classroom flipping when I became…
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‘I do believe in prayer because I believe in poetry’
Categories: UncategorizedSarah Ens’s writing career started at the age of six with a story suspiciously similar to the children’s book, Julie and the Wolves. But since those early days, she has…
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Many Voices, One Song
Categories: ArtbeatTo celebrate its 30th anniversary, a Vancouver congregation produced a documentary featuring its church. Many Voices, One Song: The Story of Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship is a 27-minute video telling…
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In the beginning
Categories: ArtbeatLast November, the United Mennonite Church of Black Creek launched a new book, In the Beginning—Stories of our Founders, during an evening of speakers, images and history. In the 1930s,…
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On the court and in the classroom
Categories: UncategorizedGrowing up just south of Winnipeg in Morris, Man., I was involved in sports starting in elementary school. I participated in many school sports but invested most of my time…
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Caught in the tension between belief and fear
Categories: UncategorizedTime is a significantly gracious yet controlling dynamic. It’s a dimension from which we cannot escape, but our experience of it varies depending on our context. We move from day…
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Swiss Mennonites speak against nationalism
Categories: Web First“Nationalism is on the rise in many parts of the world,” says Juerg Braeker, general secretary of Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz/Conférence mennonite suisse (the Swiss Mennonite church). “Mennonites, because…
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Growing projects celebrate a successful 2017
Categories: Web FirstThe Canadian Foodgrains Bank likes to talk about its “farm”—the thousands of hectares across Canada, from P.E.I. to B.C., that are planted by community growing projects to raise funds for…
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MWC responds in solidarity to disasters
Categories: Web FirstMennonite World Conference (MWC) and Mennonite organizations collaborated to live out their faith with unified action in response to disasters that struck members of the global Anabaptist family in 2017.…
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I can give with joy
Categories: EditorialEarly last year I decided to give a few dollars to any panhandler I encountered. I made sure to keep loonies, toonies and quarters in my car in case someone…
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Rudy-Froese named MC Eastern Canada church leadership minister
Marilyn Rudy-Froese says of her appointment as Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s church leadership minister, “I do not take lightly the sacred trust that I am being given.” She brings more…
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‘Serving the Lord with gladness’
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen the indomitable Orie O. Miller retired from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in 1958, there was a lot of speculation about who would fill his big shoes. In Miller’s mind,…
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Readers write: January 15, 2018 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘Come to the table . . . and meet Jesus’ Re: “A memorable remembrance,” Nov. 20, 2017, page 12. I want to affirm Troy Watson’s assertion that our communion…
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#MeToo in the pew next to you
Categories: ViewpointsThe incredible wave of disclosure around sexual abuse has dominated the front pages of our newspapers and our news feeds these past months. Women, in particular, are saying, “It’s about…
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Salty language and coming to faith
Categories: Viewpoints“Ah, sorry about all the cussing! I’ll be sure to watch my language around you from now on.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard an embarrassing…
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Hoisin glazed chicken recipe
Categories: ViewpointsThe L’Arche Collective Kitchen in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, provides opportunities for people with and without disabilities to share life together. (See more of the story at “Collective Kitchen involves all abilities.”) …
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Collective Kitchen involves all abilities
Categories: ViewpointsThe act of eating and preparing food is my greatest joy. Creating the dance of different flavours upon my palate is a spiritual experience. Robert Farror Capon writes in The…
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Singing off the wall
Categories: ViewpointsThe phrase “singing off the wall,” referring to singing from projected words rather than a hymn book, first appeared in Canadian Mennonite in 2010. This image shows that the practice…
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Jesus isn’t talking to you
Categories: Viewpoints“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; the one who…
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