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Readers write: May 9, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsTell the whole Mennonite story Re: “People of the plains,” March 14, page 12. “What is it with Mennonites and flat surroundings?” Bill Schroeder asks. But we also need to…
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Building bridges
Categories: ViewpointsBridges are an important part of life in British Columbia. Whether it is the new Port Mann Bridge or any other crossing of our many rivers, bridges are a part…
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The beautiful mind of Christ
Categories: ViewpointsHow does the body of Christ maintain her mental health? We often think about the church as the body of Christ functioning like a human body. In I Corinthians 12,…
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A justice-oriented church community
Categories: ViewpointsI haven’t been to the dump before. The route is unfamiliar. My father-in-law and I drive east, now on the outskirts of Regina, and eventually pass the oil refinery, a…
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Naomi Martin
Categories: ViewpointsNaomi Martin holds a book belonging to her late husband, Bishop J.B. Martin, at the family home in 1975. Archivists Lorna Bergey and Sam Steiner look on as she prepares…
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All about love
Categories: ViewpointsAt the request of Elsie Wiebe of Mennonite Women in Manitoba, Mennonite Collegiate Institute graduating student Amelia Pahl interviewed Martha Epp, 77, of Morden, Man., who has been the primary…
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From the pews
Categories: UncategorizedFor an hour each week we sit together. Most of us are mostly silent. Sometimes we listen, sometimes we sing, sometimes we wander off in thought. Sometimes I wonder what…
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Holding out hope for the post-Christendom church
Categories: UncategorizedThe Naked Anabaptist, by British author Stuart Murray, summarizes the foundational tenets of Anabaptism, but “I have a feeling it wouldn’t have sold quite as well with a different title,”…
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MDS monitoring Alberta fires, accepting donations
The Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Alberta Unit and MDS Region V members are on standby in response to fires in and around the northern city of Fort McMurray, Alta. on…
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B.C. pastor heads new Canadian Mennonite board
Categories: UncategorizedHenry Krause, pastor of Langley (B.C.) Mennonite Fellowship, was elected chair of the Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service (CMPS) board at its 45th annual meeting, held at Rosthern Mennonite Church from…
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B.C. paddle-a-thon: a successful tradition
Categories: UncategorizedThe number of people in the vessels may have been smaller this year, but it didn’t seem to matter in the end for the total earned at the 2016 Camp…
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Stephen Lewis addresses Power of Partnership fundraiser
Categories: Uncategorized“Don’t get too used to this kind of event,” said Rick Cober Bauman, executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario, to gales of warm laughter as he welcomed around…
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Faith up front in Thailand
Categories: UncategorizedA farmer disappointed by tumbling returns on his cassava crop is still eager to use a portion of his property for a future youth Bible camp facility. Another man is…
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Coffin maker overcomes evil with good
Categories: UncategorizedWhen missionaries arrived in Colombia to establish the country’s first Mennonite congregations, Tulio Pedraza and his wife Sofía became two of their first converts. They were baptized in June 1949.…
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Contradicting the status quo
Categories: UncategorizedAfter exploring lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer inclusion in the Mennonite church in This Will Lead to Dancing, the Stouffville, Ont.-based theatre company Theatre of the Beat is setting its sights on the experience…
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The things that are most worthwhile
Categories: UncategorizedThe following article was originally given as a short speech at a community supper at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., where Maia Fujimoto lived in residence for two years.…
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Mennonite ‘routes’ go deep
Categories: Back PageBuilding of a light-rail transit system along the spine of Waterloo and Kitchener had to change focus in March 2016, when excavations in uptown Waterloo exposed the remains of a…
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Recycling provides therapy
Categories: Web FirstCalling themselves the Basket Cases, a small group of women meets monthly for a fibre arts challenge at The Clothes Basket, a Mennonite Central Committee thrift store in Rosthern, Sask.…
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The ‘simple’ life in raising an Amish family
Categories: Web FirstMarianne Jantzi is the author of Simple Pleasures: Stories from My Life as an Amish Mother, which has just been released by Herald Press as part of its Plainspoken series…
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Ukrainian pastor dreams of a new church building
Categories: Web FirstSergey Deynekin has dreams for the Chernobaevka Church in southern Ukraine. A bi-vocational pastor who works in the building trade, he developed architectural plans for a future church building after…
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