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Overwhelming vote in favour of new MC Canada structure
Categories: Focus on Special Assembly 2017Delegates voted 94 percent in favour of taking Mennonite Church Canada’s existing structures off of life support equipment designed for a society and church culture from a prior century. In…
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In praise of reading
Categories: EditorialA formative experience for my childhood faith was the reading of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series. Set in the fictional land of Narnia, the seven books tell stories of…
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A hoof and heart both need mending
Categories: Feature ArticlesHe was a welcome sight when his truck and trailer pulled into the yard. Even before the truck stopped moving, he jumped out the passenger side and started walking toward…
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Readers write: October 23, 2017 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘Shared land’ event deserved front-page coverage Re: “Shared land’ event photo, Aug. 28, back cover. I was rather set back by the minimal attention you gave to an event at…
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Maple View insert: Canadian Mennonite responds
Categories: ViewpointsThe Sept. 25 print issue of Canadian Mennonite contained an insert from Maple View Mennonite Church entitled “Honour God with Your Bodies.” Some readers have asked about the rationale for…
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Meta-morphosis
Categories: ViewpointsFor Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers and national office staff, preparations for restructuring have created challenges over the past few years. Reality hit home as beloved colleagues and friends were…
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A hermeneutic of suspicion
Categories: ViewpointsIn a previous Family Ties column on sexual ethics (June 19, 2017), I wondered, “Where does the Bible help us [in this regard]? And where is it limited?” As I…
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The ‘yes’ perspective
Categories: ViewpointsWhen I was a very young girl, I realized that the coloured papers in my mother’s purse could get you things. That was my introduction to money. Growing up, I…
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You’re getting worked up over nothing
Categories: ViewpointsJesus and his disciples were invited to Martha’s house for dinner. Martha was toiling away in the kitchen by herself while everyone else, including her sister Mary, was in the…
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Cooperative
Categories: ViewpointsCooperatives allow community members to pool their economic resources and were quickly adopted in many Mennonite communities as a continuation of the Mennonite mutual-aid tradition. During the economic and agricultural…
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Pioneer Park celebrates 175 years of change
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Ed Snider left Kitchener to farm in the Hanover-Chesley area of southwestern Ontario, Pioneer Park Christian Fellowship, then known as the Weber Mennonite Church, was nearly five kilometres from…
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‘We need legislated protection’
Categories: Uncategorized“My people don’t believe in coincidence,” Sylvia McAdam told her audience, “so you’re meant to be here today.” McAdam was speaking at a teach-in at St. Thomas More College in…
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Bringing people and food together
Categories: UncategorizedOn a sunny Saturday in early September, 13 cyclists set out to explore the Local Food Trail near Osler, Sask. Gord Enns, who is executive director of the Saskatoon Food…
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Mennonites walk for reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedThe 2017 Walk for Reconciliation recognizing First Nations peoples drew an estimated 50,000 people in Vancouver on Sept. 24. Some two-dozen Mennonites from several Lower Mainland congregations walked together under…
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Remembering the ‘forgotten people’
Categories: UncategorizedAs a teenager, Ghada Ageel had heated debates with her grandmother at their home in the Khan Younis refugee camp in South Gaza. “I asked my grandmother many questions: Why…
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‘Participation, not performance’
Categories: UncategorizedLike most musicians and artists, Brandon Leis uses his gifts in many places and in many ways to make a living. Most recently, he was appointed as the new music…
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‘Where do we go from here?’
Categories: Books & ResourcesNobody knows the trouble I’ve seen / Nobody knows my sorrow / Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen / Nobody knows but Jesus By entitling his book with the words…
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How to avoid ‘a tense faith’
Categories: Books & ResourcesHumans have a long history of elevating knowledge over trust. Consider Adam and Eve. They had God’s full attention and companionship—and Eden—but they couldn’t resist the off-limits “tree of knowledge.”…
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2017 Fall List of Books & Resources
Categories: Books & ResourcesTheology, Spirituality Approaching the Divine: Signs and Symbols of the Christian Faith. Margaret Loewen Reimer. CMU Press, 2017, 96 pages. This book explores the history and meaning of various Christian…
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Writing that ‘really, really works’
Categories: UncategorizedJustin Rempel has been making up stories ever since he learned to write. The animals on his parents’ hobby farm near Gretna, Man., and the stories he heard while attending…
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