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‘Marriage geek’ offers her take on love and fidelity
Categories: ArtbeatIf self-confessed “marriage geek” Katherine Willis Pershey knows one thing after 14 years of marriage, it’s that couples bound together in a sacred covenant need more than cheery how-to advice…
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Voices singing ‘Let’s be jolly’ . . .
Categories: UncategorizedNolan Kehler knows a thing or two about music. In addition to studying vocal performance at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, the 22-year-old works part-time as an AM radio DJ…
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Painting as problem-solving
Categories: UncategorizedFor Winnipeg artist Megan Krause, painting is a process of problem solving. “I never plan a piece ahead of time. Not anymore, anyway,” the 32-year-old says. “It’s all intuitively done.”…
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‘Thanks to God, I have a new house’
Categories: Web FirstDigna Macias remembers clinging to a door frame in her home in Manta, Ecuador, while the walls fell around her last April following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Pacific…
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Roi des Rois interested in God’s kingdom realized
Categories: Web FirstTwenty-five years ago, Michel Monette was selling encyclopaedias door to door seven days a week. One of his fellow salesmen, a Mennonite Brethren man, would take Sundays off to go…
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Winnipeg church hosts event of solidarity with Dakota Access protests
Categories: Web FirstHundreds of concerned American citizens gathered peacefully to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and pray on Nov 26, 2016. At the same time, dozens more gathered at Home Street Mennonite…
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Customs vary among Ontario Amish
Categories: Web FirstThe Amish in Ontario are a diverse group, explained Fred Lichti at the fall meeting of the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, held on Oct. 15, 2016, at Milverton Mennonite…
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MennoMedia closing Canada office and distribution centre
MennoMedia has announced that it will close its office and distribution centre in Kitchener, Ont., in early 2017, leaving one full-time employee out of work. MennoMedia has maintained an office…
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A new conversation about dementia
Categories: EditorialWhen the diagnosis of dementia hits you up close and personal, as it has me with the decline of my spouse Marlene due to the disease, it sends you on…
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A walk in the dark
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn the northern hemisphere, Advent comes to us in the darkest time of the year. Christmas is advertised and celebrated as the happiest time of the year, and for some…
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Readers write: November 21, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsReader supports Mennonite call to ‘speak up’ Re: “Mennonites should speak up about Muslim head coverings” letter, Oct. 10, page 10. This letter is right on. We have had a…
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On being Martha
Categories: ViewpointsHospitality makes my heart sing. Preparing a comfortable space, serving up new dishes, conversing with guests and attending to their individual needs: these are among my greatest joys. Maybe that’s…
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Healthy citizens
Categories: ViewpointsMy husband and I decided to live in the United States this fall. Flexible work made it possible to move temporarily to a small town near where we grew up,…
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Thinking outside the gift box
Categories: ViewpointsAs our family sat around the Thanksgiving dinner table discussing our plans for Christmas and the virtue of giving gifts, someone piped up and said: “We already have too much…
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Goodbye Berlin
Categories: ViewpointsGordon Eby captured the moment when families in Berlin, Ont., said goodbye to local troops at the start of the First World War in 1914. In 1916, concerned that its…
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Wisdom, where art thou? (Pt. 2)
Categories: ViewpointsA school teacher asked her class of first graders, “What colour are apples?” Some children said “red!” Others exclaimed “green!” A few said “yellow.” Then one little boy raised his…
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Extending the table
Categories: UncategorizedEnglish is still the dominant language in Mennonite Church Canada as a whole, but worship also happens every Sunday in Cantonese, Lao, Tigrinya, Oromo and 14 other languages. Unfortunately, links…
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From refugees to refuge
Categories: UncategorizedAs Lucy Roca was leaving Colombia for her safety and that of her family 12 years ago, the Colombian national church commissioned her to establish Spanish-speaking congregations in Canada in…
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New home for an old church
Categories: UncategorizedThe little church that was home to the New Church Society of Rosthern for more than a century has a new home beside the Mennonite Heritage Museum on the Rosthern…
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Pastoral transition in Manitoba
Clare Schellenberg was appointed as associate pastor of Hope Mennonite Church in Winnipeg in early October 2016. A graduate of Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, she double-majored in biblical/theological studies as…
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