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The refugee highway in Kitchener-Waterloo
Categories: Web First“Why are there three Mennonite organizations working on refugee support in the Kitchener- Waterloo area?” was the question being answered at a Nov. 29, 2016, meeting at 50 Kent Ave.…
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The danger isn’t over
Categories: Web FirstFor five days last October, intense rainfall caused severe flooding along Colombia’s Pacific coast in the Chocó area, seriously damaging the homes of more than 20,000 people. Carlos Andres Palacios…
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We need ‘Emmanuel’ like never before
Categories: EditorialIf ever we needed to hear “Emmanuel” (God with us), it is during this Advent season as we wind up the year 2016. With violence prevailing in war-torn countries, and…
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Spirit-heat to thaw your freezing blood
Categories: Feature Articles“Good King Wenceslas” is not the most sing-able of carols and the lyrics are on the King James end of archaic. You may have assumed this 10th-century legend is about…
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Readers write: December 12, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsIs the Doctrine of Discovery yesterday’s news? Re: “Discovering humility” column, Sept. 26, page 7. It seems Pope Paul III may have spoken to the Doctrine of Discovery already, in…
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The new normal now
Categories: ViewpointsFor the past two months I have been living with post-concussion syndrome after an incident that involved a bear, a rock and the rain. The prognosis for me is very…
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Are we living in the last millennium?
Categories: ViewpointsNo one would doubt that Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University theoretical physicist and cosmologist, is one of the more brilliant minds of recent times. The guy forgets more in a…
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Church wants to spread the ‘Living Word’
Categories: ViewpointsChurch of the Living Word in Ottawa became an emerging church in Mennonite Church Eastern Canada in 2009, although it was founded four years earlier. Church of the Living Word…
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Understanding opponents of LGBTQ inclusion
Categories: ViewpointsOfficially, the resolution creating greater openness to LGBTQ people received 85 percent support at the Mennonite Church Canada assembly. That number is incomplete—more on that below—but it establishes a new…
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Viewpoints: Calls for understanding and repentance
Categories: ViewpointsThese are two responses to Will Braun’s ‘Understanding opponents of LGBTQ inclusion’ column. No. 1: Seeking ways to move forward By Lois Epp I agree with Will that circumstances surrounding…
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Coaldale baptism
Categories: ViewpointsThis classic baptism photo from Coaldale Mennonite Brethren Church has been incorrectly dated as from the 1940s. Dedicated volunteers, who have a long-standing passion for the history of the church…
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Future Directions: Take Two
Categories: UncategorizedFaced with a funding crisis, sliding attendance and shifting cultural contexts, the response of Mennonite Church Canada and the five area churches has been a five-year process of restructuring denominational…
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Future Directions Dream
Categories: Web FirstI want to be excited about church. I do not attend regional or national assemblies, but I care deeply about the broader church. I would rather hang out with my…
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Future Directions process accelerated
Categories: Uncategorized“The timeline [for the Future Directions plan] from Saskatoon did not reflect what was possible,” Willard Metzger, executive director of Mennonite Church Canada, told the denomination’s fall leadership assembly in…
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‘When all you have is a hammer . . .’
Categories: UncategorizedCarol Penner went into ministry to be a “humble tool in God’s tool box—to preach, go to meetings and love people,” like the hammer she brought to the lectern with…
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‘In the midst of suffering, faith does not disappear’
Categories: UncategorizedIn October 2016, students arriving at a Christian school in Aleppo, Syria, discovered that a rocket had blown out a portion of a classroom. So many rockets were landing in…
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‘Mennonites, land and the environment’
Categories: UncategorizedAcademics, students, independent researchers and lay people alike gathered at the University of Winnipeg in late October 2016 for a global history conference on “Mennonites, land and the environment.” The…
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Assembly 2016 resolution about more than BDS
Categories: Uncategorized“In this resolution we are not taking sides between Israel and Palestine,” said Palmer Becker at Mennonite Church Canada’s Assembly 2016. “We support the need for a safe place to…
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Christian-Muslim dialogue
Common Word Alberta hosted the fourth annual Muslim-Christian Dialogue at Edmonton’s Al Rashid Mosque on Oct. 15, 2016. Muslim and Christian representatives of indigenous, settler and refugee groups told their…
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Missionaries’ influence spans the generations
Categories: UncategorizedMissions is not a very popular word in some circles these days, but when Masaki Higashiguchi visited Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C., on Oct. 30, 2016, it was a…
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