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Happy birthday, CM!
Categories: EditorialOn my bookshelf sit 19 bound volumes of Canadian Mennonite. I’m looking at Vol. 1, No. 1, published on Sept. 15, 1997. Yes, that means that, come Sept. 15, we…
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A community with a sense of ‘we’
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was humbled and challenged when I spent the day with some of my Old Order Mennonite relations recently. My cousin Sarah invited me to a quilting at her home…
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Relational trust
Categories: Viewpoints“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight” (Proverbs 3:5). “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe…
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God’s heartbreak
Categories: ViewpointsWhile training as a family therapist, I learned the term “emotional cut-off.” It was not a dynamic I was personally familiar with; my particular family tends to be on the…
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Contagious generosity
Categories: ViewpointsFor many years my wife and I raised our family in an older community with many beautiful boulevard trees but very few young families. Despite our best efforts, our neighbours…
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Sieburg women
Categories: ViewpointsWho are these five women from Siegburg, Germany, in 1919? We don’t know for certain, but on Jan. 13, soldier Gordon Eby wrote that he and an army buddy “called…
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Simple but not easy
Categories: ViewpointsCatching up on Witness worker reports, I came across an update from Mary Raber, who teaches at the Odessa Theological Seminary in Ukraine, a country continuing to experience turmoil despite…
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I’ll melt with you
Categories: ViewpointsOur family was fortunate enough to see an iceberg this summer near Twillingate, N.L. It was a surreal experience for me. Everything around me paused for a brief transcendent moment,…
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Vietnamese Fellowship drops ‘Mennonite’ name
Categories: UncategorizedA name change, effective immediately, heralds a time of direction-setting for the former North American Vietnamese Mennonite Fellowship. From June 30 to July 1, 2017, the Fellowship held its biennial…
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Best practices begin with prayer
Categories: UncategorizedWhile many congregations are shuttering or repurposing their education wings, Leamington United Mennonite Church built a whole new addition in 2011, replacing a 1959 building that had been linked to…
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No longer ‘a repository of artifacts’
Categories: UncategorizedOliver Friesen’s face lights up when he talks about history. “There’s something about the past,” he says. “It’s alive and so interesting.” For the past two summers Friesen has been…
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Camp Moose Lake now sold
Categories: UncategorizedCamp Moose Lake, one of Mennonite Church Manitoba’s three Camps with Meaning (CwM) locations, has been sold to the Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine. Possession date for the camp, located in the…
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Lamenting the ‘discovery’ of North America
Categories: ArtbeatAn American theatre company with Mennonite roots performed its newest production, which explores indigenous-settler relations, to a capacity crowd in Winnipeg earlier this summer. Hundreds gathered at Home Street Mennonite…
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‘Colombia fever’
Categories: UncategorizedDespite warnings from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Low German Mennonites from drought-prone regions of northern Mexico have bought over 20,000 hectares of land in Colombia. Kennert Giesbrecht, long-time editor of…
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Pollution in the Heavenly Province
Categories: UncategorizedThe first thought that struck me when I arrived in China’s Sichuan province was how green it was. Somehow, perhaps from tales of air pollution and reading “Made in China”…
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A very special relationship
Categories: UncategorizedA relationship between a Winnipeg church and a community in northern Manitoba has resulted in a special friendship between two young women. Mekiah Yonda and Amber Muskego met when members…
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Congolese Mennonites suffer atrocities amid displacement of 1.4 million
Categories: Web FirstWARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Dozens of Congolese Mennonites have been killed, hundreds of their homes have been burned, and thousands of them have fled, as violence…
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Supporting women’s education with a party and a quilt
Categories: Web FirstWhen retired teacher Martha Wiens of Leamington (Ont.) United Mennonite Church turned 80, she threw herself a birthday party with purpose. She auctioned off a specially made quilt to raise…
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B.C.’s wildfires affect large region
Categories: Web FirstHaze lingered over a wide area of British Columbia in early August, a reminder that wildfires in B.C.’s interior were affecting residents several hundred kilometres away. An air quality advisory…
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Review: Mennonite-Nazi connection unconvincing
Categories: Web FirstBen Goossen argues that German-speaking Mennonites of the 20th century had a sense of Mennonite nationality and that this concept of Mennonites as a “chosen nation,” a people with a…
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