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Michael J. Sharp’s journey toward peace in DR Congo
Categories: Web FirstThe peacebuilding career of Michael J. Sharp, a former service worker with Mennonite Central Committee, ended when he was kidnapped and killed while on a UN fact-finding mission in Kasai…
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Goshen alumnus restores rare 1564 Ausbund
Categories: Web FirstThe Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College owns the world’s only surviving copy of the first printing, in 1564, of songs that eventually became the Ausbund, one of the first…
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New Fretz Fellowship honours Grebel’s founding president
Categories: Web FirstA strategic plan vision has been realized at Conrad Grebel University College with the creation of the new J. Winfield Fretz Fellowship in Mennonite Studies. The Fellowship, to be awarded…
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Drummer joins pilgrimage to bring awareness of indigenous rights
Categories: Web FirstHenry Neufeld is joining more than 50 other walkers in the Pilgrimage for Indigenous Rights. From April 23 to May 14, participants will cover the 600-kilometre stretch between Kitchener and…
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Change, I welcome you
Categories: EditorialAnxiety about change abounds. It is a natural response to uncertainty, but I tire of reading about it. Newly taking up my role as publisher of this magazine, I would…
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Ceremonies of belief
Categories: Feature ArticlesSeveral years ago, my Russian Mennonite grandmother told me a story about her childhood that I think about often. When she was just a young girl living somewhere southeast of…
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Making words real
Categories: Web FirstIn July 2016, Mennonite Church Canada joined a growing number of Canadian and American church bodies that have officially repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery. Assembly delegates passed a resolution recognizing…
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Fraught with possibility
Categories: UncategorizedLong before the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission or the celebrated United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), we already had a 4,000-page…
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Readers write: April 24, 2017 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘Apocalyptic threshold’ is more than a few degrees Re: “Are we living in the last millennium?” Dec. 12, 2016, page 8, Phil Wagler’s column is a reminder that apocalyptic predictions…
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A church in transition
Categories: ViewpointsThe times we live in seem to change more rapidly with each passing day. In North America, Europe and elsewhere, protectionist sentiments, growing nationalism and increased border controls are becoming…
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Party with piecaken
Categories: Viewpoints“This isn’t really working out the way I imagined,” I mused, as my mother slept in her chair while I worked on her birthday dessert. I had just ended a…
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Just imagine
Categories: ViewpointsJust imagine you are there, sitting on the hillside, listening to Jesus. It’s past mealtime and your stomach starts to rumble, but his words mesmerize you and you don’t want…
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B.C. firefighting
Categories: ViewpointsFirefighting in British Columbia was one of the tasks assigned to Canadian conscientious objectors (COs) during the Second World War. They were ‘the best firefighters we ever had,’ according…
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Wisdom, where art thou? (Pt. 7)
Categories: ViewpointsSo how does one enrol as an apprentice in the School of Divine Wisdom? The Bible tells us there are a few prerequisites. The first one is found in Proverbs…
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An idea worth sharing
Categories: UncategorizedPeace is rooted in building relationships, and that means creating space to get to know one another. With that thought in mind, Karl and Marla Langelotz of Winnipeg addressed an…
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‘A beautiful way to make peace’
Categories: UncategorizedThe best way to learn about a new culture is to experience it first-hand. Rosthern Junior College (RJC) Grade 10 students recently had the opportunity to learn a little about…
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Bite-sized donors help combat hunger
Categories: UncategorizedThis spring marks the third year that Grant Dyck and his family of Artel Farms in Niverville, Man., have dedicated a section of their land to raise sponsored crops for…
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God’s love trumps politics and policies: Franklin Graham
Categories: UncategorizedIn the lead-up to the Festival of Hope, an evangelistic event headlined by Franklin Graham last month in Vancouver, church leaders representing more than 60 percent of the million Christians…
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Canoes and kayaks for a cause
Categories: UncategorizedA boisterous and enthusiastic crowd greeted 36 paddlers who came ashore in Fort Langley late in the afternoon of April 9, completing the annual two-day paddle-a-thon in support of Camp…
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Jan Fretz wins two U. of W. art awards
Categories: ArtbeatJan Fretz has been working at her honours four-year fine arts degree at the University of Waterloo for a long time. But the incubation period has paid dividends. She loves…
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