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Self-discovery through improvisational theatre
Categories: UncategorizedWinnipeg filmmaker Brad Leitch’s next project is a deeply personal one. The 30-year-old, who attends Hope Mennonite Church in the city, is making a documentary about “playback theatre,” a form…
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Shaping life on campus
Categories: UncategorizedFor many people, studying at college or university is about more than just going to classes. It’s about connecting with peers at social events, service projects and forums that happen…
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‘Half-moon’ agriculture helps African farmers
Categories: Back PageStep into the fields of Etienne Tiendrébeogo (pictured at right in the bright shirt) in Yé, Burkina Faso, and you’ll notice something striking: large half-moon shapes dug into the soil,…
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Balmer honored with Distinguished Service award
Methodist Theological School Ohio (MTSO) has presented Brice Balmer with the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service, the school’s highest honor for graduates. Balmer, who earned a…
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MAX Canada makes gift to MDS for Fort McMurray efforts
MAX Canada Insurance and its Mutual Aid Ministries program recently presented an $80,000 gift to Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) to aid in the recovery and rebuilding of Fort McMurray, Alta.,…
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Devastation in Haiti: ‘Yesterday, we lost everything’
Categories: Web FirstWhen rushing water of the River Gris, overflowing with rain from Hurricane Matthew, washed away Sarditren Dete’s and Antovan Enit’s houses and possessions, it destroyed their livelihoods too. “Yesterday we…
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‘It was a very sad day’
Categories: Web FirstOn Monday, September 26, 2016, I flew from Canada back to Colombia more excited than usual. After four years of negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia…
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Honouring our founder
Categories: EditorialWe are pleased to announce that the family of the late Ted Friesen, the first publisher of The Canadian Mennonite, has agreed to set up—and seed with a $50,000 gift—a…
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Why Mennonite education matters
Categories: Feature Articles“Why should young people from our congregations choose a Christian college or university like Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, B.C., Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ont., or Canadian Mennonite…
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Readers write: October 10, 2016 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘Affluenza’ should trump ‘gender’ issue for Mennonites As community-oriented Anabaptists, we should be spending more time on “affluenza” than on the “gender” issue. Richard Rohr, the contemporary Franciscan monk, said…
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Learning to follow the Jesus way
Categories: ViewpointsYou obey every day. You obey the legislations of government—even those you don’t agree with. You obey an employer, school teacher or parent. Some have to heed all three on…
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Becoming Mennonite
Categories: ViewpointsWhen I reflect on how I became a Mennonite, I find myself agreeing with what a peasant once told an Irish priest. The priest, who approached the peasant praying by…
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Henry Neufeld
Categories: ViewpointsHenry Neufeld, right, spent a lifetime building positive relationships among Mennonite and indigenous peoples. He is pictured standing beside Pastor Jeremiah Ross from Cross Lake, Man., at a Conference of…
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Summerbridge: Three detours in(to) ministry
Categories: Uncategorized“Are you on a tour?” Squinting in the summer sunlight, we glanced across the street as a man stepped out of his car. Guilty as charged. Our walking neighborhood tour,…
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Finding a way to be together
Categories: UncategorizedA month after a pastors-only meeting, Mennonite Church B.C. congregations are being invited to give their personal views on the national church’s Being a Faithful Church (BFC) 7 resolution on…
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‘Love for all, hatred for none’
Categories: UncategorizedIt isn’t every day that Mennonites share a potluck meal with Muslims. Yet this is what happened when Wildwood Mennonite Church in Saskatoon invited members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at…
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‘Whatever you want, God’
Categories: UncategorizedDoug Snyder retired (again) on Aug. 28, 2016, this time as pastor of St. Agatha Mennonite Church, west of Waterloo. Born in 1941, Snyder remembers going forward at a Brunk…
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Build a bigger table, not a higher fence
Categories: Focus On EducationTed and Darlene Enns Dyck came in the late 1980s to Conrad Grebel College in Waterloo, Ont., from Winnipeg, Manitoba’s urban capital. When they completed their time at Grebel, they…
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‘One team’ at MCI
Categories: Focus On EducationOur purpose at Mennonite Collegiate Institute (MCI) in Gretna, Man., is to educate young people in an Anabaptist/Christian context, seeking to develop their God-given potential in terms of physical, intellectual,…
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A learning community
Categories: Focus On EducationI recently enjoyed a visit with a Rosthern (Sask.) Junior College (RJC) alumnus whose graduating class is from decades past. There were many smiles as we talked about old classmates,…
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