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A field of a million prayers
Categories: UncategorizedThey were called and they came, a million people from every corner of South Africa. They gathered on April 22, 2017, in an expanse of field near Bloemfontein for the…
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Edmonton church experiences blanket exercise
Categories: UncategorizedOn Pentecost Sunday, June 4, 2017, a spirit of truth and reconciliation filled the fellowship hall and sanctuary of Edmonton's First Mennonite Church. Instead of the regular Sunday School time,…
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‘The perfect synergy’
Categories: ArtbeatWhat’s the sound of an award-winning song? Matt Epp and Faouzia know. This past May, the singer-songwriters won the grand prize for their duet “The Sound” in the International Songwriting…
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Stephanie Martin ends on a high note
Categories: ArtbeatGrace Church on-the-Hill Anglican Church was full of concertgoers lined up waiting for open seats from no-shows on April 30. Stephanie Martin’s last concert as artistic director of the Pax…
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Walking for equality
Categories: UncategorizedThis past spring, while her Grade 6 peers were in class writing spelling tests and working on their multiplication tables, Abby Heinrichs was doing something completely different: walking 600 kilometres…
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Cyber security underdog
Categories: UncategorizedComputer programming is a language foreign to most, but not to David Dyck. The 17-year-old Winnipegger is passionate about computers and knowing how they operate. “I really like understanding how…
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Broadening our prayers
Categories: EditorialAs I began writing this, my Twitter and Facebook feeds reported news about a gun attack on an Egyptian bus carrying Coptic Christians. The world gasped and wept—once again. The…
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The view through a prison keyhole
Categories: Feature ArticlesTony Deik experienced a dramatic return to faith when he was studying at Birzeit University in the Israeli-occupied territory of the West Bank. Raised Roman Catholic in Bethlehem, he had…
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Muddying the waters on Israeli divestment
Categories: ViewpointsOnly one person voted against the Mennonite Church Canada Resolution on Palestine and Israel, but we all know the matter is more complex than that. Some Mennonites and others argue…
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Working group tackles tasks of advocacy on Palestine and Israel
Categories: Web FirstWhen delegates to the July 2016 assembly of Mennonite Church Canada passed a resolution on Palestine and Israel with an almost unanimous vote, reactions varied widely from within the denomination…
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What would you risk for peace?
Categories: ViewpointsIn April 2017, more than 1,600 Palestinian political prisoners went on a hunger strike. As I write this article, strikers have refused food and have been drinking only salt water…
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Readers Write: June 19, 2017 issue
Categories: ViewpointsRandom thoughts from a reader As I was reading “Be a CO at tax time,” April 10, page 4, I was a little confused. Is Mary Groh encouraging breaking the…
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Don’t interrupt me
Categories: ViewpointsIn many busy Canadian families, parents and siblings interrupt each other in mid-conversation. We want to get our point across quickly and efficiently. We want to get stuff done. Mennonite…
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Holy sexuality
Categories: ViewpointsThe irony wasn’t lost on me, or on others. At last summer’s Mennonite Church Canada assembly, people discussed, debated and discerned holy sexuality. Specifically, they considered, “Is there space in…
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It’s better to give
Categories: ViewpointsMy father is a very innovative man. Thirty-three years ago, he started a silo repair business. One of the reasons he is a successful entrepreneur is that he finds solutions…
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Rabbit Lake church
Categories: ViewpointsThe Hoffnungsfelder Mennonite Church in Rabbit Lake, Sask., 1938. In 1941, 87 percent of Mennonites were rural dwellers. By 1971, the number crashed to 53 percent and has continued to…
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Wisdom, where art thou? (Pt. 9)
Categories: ViewpointsFor centuries, people who questioned the church and its dogma were silenced and at times persecuted. The church coerced the masses to acquiesce to its doctrine by shaming sceptics and…
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Growing leaders in five years
Categories: Uncategorized“Kenda Creasy Dean writes in one of her books that youth ministry is a spiritual discipline,” says Jean Lehn Epp, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s youth pastor/worker coach. “To me, that…
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PhD student saves ‘history’ from the shredder
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Jeremy Wiebe heard that the remaining inventory of Mennonites in Canada (Vols. 1-3) were in danger of being shredded to save warehouse storage fees, he took action. Using his…
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Saskatchewan youth honour the earth all night
Categories: UncategorizedHonouring the Earth, an annual Saskatchewan Mennonite Youth Organization event, took place April 18 and19, 2017, in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan and Rosthern Junior College (RJC). The…
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