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Take, bless, break
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe Evansons were out of our league. We were a plain old missionary family coming from rural New Hamburg, Ont., and they were über-educated university professors from glamorous Colorado, U.S.A.…
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Bean Soup (Bohna Supp)
Categories: Web FirstThis simple soup was eaten in Amish Mennonite communities in southwestern Ontario and was often called by its Pennsylvania Dutch name. Some cooks served it simultaneously with a slice of…
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Readers write: Oct. 24, 2016 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘Minister’s handbook to reproductive loss’ available online re: “coping, grieving, remembering,” Sept. 12, page 4. I’m writing to express my appreciation for Beth Downey Sawatzky’s thoughtfully written piece on pregnancy…
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Stories: yours, mine, ours
Categories: ViewpointsIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the late Harper Lee captures the complex reality of relationship: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from…
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Healthy truth
Categories: Viewpoints“You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” Jesus’ oft-repeated axiom from John 8 lifts up the value of truth-telling. The living out of it, though,…
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A lesson on sharing
Categories: ViewpointsA father often took his five-year-old son to the local minor hockey league games. Each time they went, they saw the same homeless man in the parking lot asking for…
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Reunion
Categories: ViewpointsThis is no ordinary 1960s family reunion photo. Thousands of Mennonites fleeing the Soviet Union after the Second World War were forcibly repatriated. With the doors closed on mass migration,…
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Wisdom, where art thou? (Pt. 1)
Categories: ViewpointsOne of the devil’s tactics in the temptation of Jesus, recorded in Matthew 4 and Luke 4, intrigues me. In this story, Satan takes Jesus to the holy city of…
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New moderator brings ‘non-anxious presence’
Categories: UncategorizedAs a busy professional engineer and a young father, Calvin Quan’s days are full, yet he is ready and willing to serve as Mennonite Church Canada’s new moderator. Where does…
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Taking a chance on Menno-poly
Categories: UncategorizedWith special “Menno-poly” Chance cards, five different Monopoly boards scattered throughout Saskatoon and fun team challenges, the Mega Menno Monopoly Rally kick-off got groups excited for another year of youth…
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Regehr named Future Directions transition director
Categories: UncategorizedKeith Regehr, a managing partner working in the field of conflict resolution and restorative justice for the L3 Group in Kitchener, Ont., formerly known as Associates Resourcing Churches, has been…
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Yee resigns pastoral role
Categories: UncategorizedKuen Yee, pastor of English ministries at Edmonton Vietnamese Mennonite Church, has resigned her three-quarter-time position effective Oct. 31, 2016. Yee is Chinese and has an Alliance Church background. In…
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Camp Koinonia 50th anniversary snapshots
Categories: UncategorizedMolly Schaeffer, standing rear, one of this summer’s resident managers, acts as emcee for Camp Koinonia’s 50th-anniversary celebration on Oct. 2, 2016. Close to 150 people gathered for the event,…
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‘Our family is here’
Categories: UncategorizedElaine Hofer and Paul Waldner are members of Green Acres Colony, near Wawanesa, Man. Their Hutterite colony, along with Enes and Fata Muheljic from Wawanesa, worked with Mennonite Central Committee…
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A friend to the larger church
Categories: UncategorizedAs a young girl in Pennsylvania, where she was born, Janet Ranck’s interest in missions and supportive missions was nurtured by her family. Her father gave a house to the…
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Pastoral transition in Ontario – David Lewis
Categories: UncategorizedDavid Lewis began as the intentional interim minister of Niagara United Mennonite Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Sept. 4, 2016. Lewis has a bachelor of theology degree from Canadian Bible College…
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An insider’s story of the Amish beard cutters
Categories: Books & ResourcesThe strange case of the Amish beard cutters five years ago thrust a normally quiet American community into the national spotlight. The bizarre attacks seemed so out of character for…
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Learning from the ‘teachers of trust’
Categories: Books & ResourcesIf a person has a body that is physically and intellectually disabled, is it ethically right to use technology to keep that body small and childlike so that it is…
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Questions answered without words
Categories: Books & ResourcesPoetry has always spoken to me. Whether it is the blank verse of Shakespeare, the doubling images of Hebrew scripture, or the lyrics of song, popular or otherwise. But I…
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Fall 2016 list of Books & Resources
Categories: Books & ResourcesTheology, Spirituality All You Need is Love: Honoring the Diversity of Women’s Voices in Theology. Jennifer Castro, ed. Women in Leadership Project, Mennonite Church U.S.A., 2016, 195 pages. The 20…
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