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EMU expands restorative-justice course catalogue
Categories: Focus On EducationThis fall, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) debuted an expanded course catalogue featuring its new MA in Restorative Justice program. In keeping with CJP’s long-established leadership…
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‘The heart of our song’
Categories: Focus On EducationOn a hot June weekend, more than 100 Rockway Mennonite Collegiate alumni rehearsed, relived and performed a Rockway choral experience. Three beloved choral directors—Jan Overduin, Robert L. Shantz and Ann…
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CMU recognizes distinguished alumni with 2016 awards
Categories: Focus On EducationTwo members of Mennonite Church Canada congregations are among four recipients of 2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards from Canadian Mennonite University (CMU): • Peter Guenther, a 1969 graduate of the former…
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Schools report on 2016 fall enrolment
Categories: Focus On EducationCMU Preliminary fall enrolment figures at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg show stability of student registrations across all programs, with an overall full-time equivalent (FTE) of 829. Fall registrations…
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Bearing witness to something greater
Categories: UncategorizedIn recent months, Krista Loewen has been thinking a lot about Jeremiah 29:11: “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare…
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Growing up on record
Categories: UncategorizedFor some people, writing a song is a laborious process. Not for Michaela Loewen. Most of the time, the music and lyrics come to her in under half an hour.…
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‘We are your future/Somos su futuro’
Categories: Back Page“We Are Your Future/Somos Su Futuro” opened at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg on Sept. 9. The exhibition focusses on the lives of women from the indigenous community…
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Peacebuilding with ordinary people
Categories: Web FirstJulianne Funk is a peacebuilder. In Bosnia, the northern region of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And at the University of Zurich, where she teaches religion as well as…
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Ted Giesbrecht wins local law association award
Categories: Web FirstTed Giesbrecht of the Kitchener, Ont., law firm Giesbrecht, Griffin, Funk and Irvine has been honoured by the Waterloo Region Law Association with the 2016 Coulter A. Osborne Award, given…
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‘10 Young Women Changing the World’ award recipients announced
Categories: Web FirstOver the last two years, the “20 under 35: Young professionals changing the world initiative” instituted by Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) recognized 40 young professionals under the age of…
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Saying goodbye to war and hello to peace in Colombia
Categories: Web FirstUPDATE (Oct. 3, 2016): In an Oct. 2 plebiscite, Colombian voters rejected the proposed peace deal by a thin margin of 50.21 to 49.78 percent. Angélica Rincón could not stop…
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Farewell to a ‘budding activist’
Categories: EditorialWe will miss her and her passion for justice as a young mother trying to make sense of the complexities of our world in the 21st century. Katie Doke Sawatzky…
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A misunderstood people
Categories: Feature ArticlesMany U.S. and Canadian Mennonites think of German-speaking Mennonites in Mexico as a backward people in a Wild West country. We read of Mennonites involved in drug trafficking and ask…
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Readers write: September 26, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsBraun criticized for using ‘the language of euthanasia proponents’ Re: “The right to die and the art of suffering,” Aug. 15, page 20. I deeply sympathize with author Will Braun…
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Discovering humility
Categories: ViewpointsIt’s Sunday night, I’m in a coffee shop, and I’m soaking wet. Thirty minutes earlier I was at home reading about the Doctrine of Discovery and found the content so…
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Healthy leadership
Categories: ViewpointsAs his seven-year-old daughter gambolled away, my nephew reflected on the negotiation that I had just witnessed, where she asked repeatedly for something to which he had each time responded…
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Consider the possibilities
Categories: ViewpointsIn our transformation from Mennonite Foundation of Canada to Abundance Canada, we have received several responses from our clients and constituency. While most of the feedback has been positive, there…
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The pursuit of truth (Pt. 9)
Categories: ViewpointsConsider the possibility that truth is not a thing or group of things (e.g. ideas, facts, doctrines, etc.) but a Spirit. This seems to be the apostle John’s understanding. For…
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Fenian defence
Categories: ViewpointsThe Fenian Invasions, in which Irish American Civil War veterans used raids into pre-Confederation Canada to further the cause of Irish independence, were launched in 1866. Christian Eby (pictured), grandson…
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Waiting to return
Categories: UncategorizedThe road ahead for the recovery of Fort McMurray, Alta.—devastated this spring by wildfires that forced the evacuation of 88,000 residents while consuming and scorching large swaths of residential areas—will…
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