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Depression resurrection
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthToday begins like any other, the type that has become common for me. I cheerfully get out of bed at a decent time, feed my children a healthy breakfast, tidy…
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‘We all need counsellors’
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthTheresa Driediger has been a counsellor for almost 30 years. “I think it’s a calling, or I wouldn’t still be doing it,” she says. Driediger completed an undergraduate theology degree…
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Helping to prevent suicide
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthIt’s painful for Ken Reddig to tell his story, but he says, “If I can help prevent one loss, then it’s worth it.” Reddig spoke to the adult Sunday school…
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Leaders being equipped to build up the church
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthStatistically, most mental illnesses show their first warning signs between the ages of 15 and 20—roughly the same age group encompassed by most church senior-youth programs. For this reason, those…
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‘There is love in this room’
Categories: Focus on Mental Health“Living Room Ministries” is a name coined by John E. Toews and Eleanor Loewen in the 1990s. In their book No Longer Alone: Mental Health and the Church (MennoMedia, 1995),…
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Finding God in my neighbourhood
Categories: UncategorizedStuart Murray, author of The Naked Anabaptist, encouraged Mennonite Church Eastern Canada delegates to become mobile temples, moving out of their buildings and into the neighbourhood to speak out the…
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Wisdom in legacy
Categories: UncategorizedRecalling the legacies passed down through generations, women gathered on April 30, 2016, for the 77th annual Mennonite Church B.C. women’s Inspirational Day at Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church. With II Timothy…
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Together in lament, prayer and hope
Categories: UncategorizedColourful paper cranes folded neatly over words of prayer. Bowls of floating candles melting together as one. A smudging ceremony rich with prayer that took five times as long as…
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Future of the church appears grim
Categories: ArtbeatFollowing in the footsteps of Reginald Bibby, sociologist Joel Thiessen examines how Canadians of today view Christianity. In his book The Meaning of Sunday, he concludes that religion is increasingly…
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‘I am still holding out hope that I will be free of this one day’
Categories: UncategorizedWhat is it like being a young adult journeying with mental illness? Canadian Mennonite spoke with three people from Mennonite Church Canada congregations to find out. Melanie Kampen Melanie Kampen…
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Six tips for better self-care
Categories: UncategorizedFrom the time you are 15 or 16 to the time you are 26 or 28, your brain undergoes rapid cognitive changes. “It’s the busiest time [of brain development] since…
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Seminar to engage congregations in creation care
Categories: Web FirstWe’re already implementing creation care practices. Let’s share what we’re doing. That’s the message behind “Caring for God’s Good Creation,” a seminar to take place on July 10, 2016, following…
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Director announced for new Mennonite song collection project
Categories: Web FirstBradley Kauffman of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been named project director for the new song collection for Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada) and Mennonite Church USA (MC USA). The print version…
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Canadian Mennonite University celebrates class of 2016
Categories: Web FirstIn his valedictory address at Canadian Mennonite University’s (CMU) graduation service at Immanuel Pentecostal Church on April 24, 2016, Jonas Cornelsen tackled head on the question, “What are you going…
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Eight-hour ‘song-a-thon’ raises money for camps
Categories: Web FirstThe first-ever Camps with Meaning (CWM) Song-a-thon went for eight hours, featuring 14 musical acts. Held at Canadian Mennonite University on April 16, 2016, the event raised $20,000 that will…
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Former MCC Canada board chair passes
George Richert, former board chair of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada, died on April 6, 2016. Born in Waldheim, Sask., in 1936, he leaves a rich legacy as an educator…
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Fleeing the Fort McMurray fire
Categories: Web First“I have a new appreciation for the phrase, ‘spreads like wildfire,’” says Patrick Drapeau. He and his wife, Rachel, live in Fort McMurray, the Alberta community that has faced raging…
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Remembering the mothers of the ‘disappeared’
When I was a young child, my family lived in Chile, where my parents worked at an inter-Protestant seminary. We happened to be there to witness the end of the…
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Widening our circle
Categories: EditorialThe draw to our Anabaptist/Mennonite theology just keeps happening. First, it was Stuart Murray, the British-born Baptist who, with many in his network, found a “home” in the Anabaptist fold.…
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Communion and Cabernet
Categories: Feature ArticlesAlcohol has become ubiquitous in Canada, so much so that on April 5 even Starbucks began serving beer and wine in three of its Toronto outlets. How does this preponderance…
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