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Seminary reports highest enrolment in 14 years
Categories: Focus On EducationAnabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in Elkhart, Indiana, is celebrating its fourth consecutive year of growth in student numbers this fall, with a total enrolment of 189 students (157 in…
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Connecting MCI’s Past & Future
Categories: Focus On EducationFor 134 years, Mennonite Collegiate Institute has offered young people an Anabaptist-centred education, a community to explore faith in, and a place to excel in music, academics and sport. The…
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Biking food to university
Categories: Web First – OpinionThe following article is an online supplement to Miles Wiederkehr’s article, “A cycle of practical love” in the Sept. 22, 2023, issue of Canadian Mennonite. In “A cycle of practical…
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The institution of messiness
Categories: EditorialIn the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with five people who have been deeply wounded by church institutions. I’ve met countless more in previous years. I regularly receive notes from…
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Readers write: September 22, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionWrestling I read your piece (“The duty of tension,” June 16) and I’ve been wrestling with the content. It was a great editorial, and I commend your willingness to stomach…
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Hear the climate call
Categories: OpinionIt’s worth celebrating that the regions of MC Canada have identified the climate crisis as a priority ministry area in recent years. Like all priorities, where the rubber really hits…
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The founding of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada
Categories: OpinionThis photo depicts the founding of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada in 1902 at Tiefengrund, Sask. The men in this photo include (back row, l to r): David Epp,…
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Choosing death
Categories: OpinionMy sister Helen is a retired nurse who spent much of her career working with palliative patients. In the last few years of her working life, she encountered medical assistance…
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From Zacchaeus to climate justice
Categories: OpinionAn encounter with Jesus is a call for transformation. Such is the story of Zacchaeus. Jesus noticed him watching from a tree and invited himself for dinner. Zacchaeus must have…
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The gift of life, the question of death
Categories: Feature ArticlesRobert Bruinsma remembers the day his friend, Sam, told him he was going to die. It was a few days before Christmas 2017, and Bruinsma was visiting Sam (not his…
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To be no longer known
Categories: OpinionPsalm 103 contains familiar and beautiful lines that speak of the Lord as being gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. They’re lovely, but that’s not what…
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Singing and praying with Indigenous Christians
Categories: OpinionIn order to fully embrace the diversity of the church and to live into God’s reign of justice and peace, it is necessary to sing and pray with Indigenous Christians.…
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Poetic justice
Categories: NewsFor Di Brandt, being a poet is a natural extension of her upbringing in the Manitoba Mennonite village of Reinland. She says the hymns of her youth were poetic, and…
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A cycle of practical love
Categories: OpinionMy memories of high school are largely a featureless blur—I did graduate 40 years ago—but one incident that stands out in detail is a lecture in my vocational agriculture class.…
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Single Moms’ Camp brings golden healing
Categories: News“It’s so hard to explain something that feels so sacred to you,” Amanda Pot said when asked to describe Single Moms’ Camp at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp in New Hamburg,…
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Six stories of women’s ordination in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s
Categories: NewsEsther Patkau In the 1950s, Mennonite churches in Canada had the practice of ordaining missionaries. What church leaders could not imagine at home seemed acceptable for women who would be…
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MCC takes day off for Indigenous learning
Mennonite Central Committee Ontario will recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday, Sept. 25. All offices and thrift shops will be closed and staff will spend this…
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German book ministry to close
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada plans to close two bookstores connected with Die Mennonitische Post in Steinbach and Winkler, Manitoba, at the end of March 2024. Since the 1980s, MCC…
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Bledsoe joins Edmonton First Mennonite
Categories: NewsDebbie Bledsoe began her role as a co-pastor at First Mennonite Church in Edmonton on August 23. Bledsoe, who is a recent graduate of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, describes her…
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RJC stakes its claim on Anabaptist identity
Categories: NewsFour years ago, things were looking dire for RJC High School in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. Enrollment was the lowest ever, at 65 students. It had been slowly declining for 20 years,…
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