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MCC Sask appoints new executive director
Eileen Klassen Hamm has been appointed executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan effective immediately. She succeeds Claire Ewert Fisher. Klassen Hamm has served with MCC in various capacities…
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Grebel president accepts call from EMU
Categories: Web FirstThe board of governors of Conrad Grebel University College announced that president Susan Schultz Huxman has accepted the call to become the president of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg,…
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Pankratz interim at Grebel
Jim Pankratz, former dean at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., has been named interim president until a new executive can be appointed, following the resignation of Susan Schultz Huxman…
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Mennonites respond to Ecuador earthquakes
Categories: Web FirstMennonites are responding to the recent earthquakes in Ecuador, where members of multiple Mennonite congregations are among 100,000 people affected by the disaster. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific coast…
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How climate change threatens farmers in Bangladesh
Categories: Web FirstMasum Khandakar is a Bangladeshi rice farmer with a craggy face and a jutting white beard that flares as wide as the wings of his collared shirt. His voice goes…
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Of mission and politics
Categories: EditorialTwo articles in this issue point to a shift in our Anabaptist/Mennonite thinking about both our mission in international witness and our place in the government arena. “Toss aside western…
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What’s up with Mennos and mission?
Categories: Feature ArticlesAbout eight years ago, Daniel Pantoja shared the approach he and his wife Joji employed as Mennonite Church Canada Witness Workers in the Philippines: “Toss aside western church culture and…
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A little child will lead them
Categories: UncategorizedA futsal (soccer) park project in Gaborone, Botswana, is springing to life with the help of children who are following God’s lead. Despite an encouraging start to this development, we…
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Readers write: April 25, 2016 issue
Categories: Viewpoints‘You betcha’ climate change is real Re: “Is climate change real?” by Will Braun, Feb. 29, page 17. Is climate change real? You betcha! Just ask northerners who are seeing…
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Art can make a difference
Categories: ViewpointsMy exhibit of paintings, Along the Road to Freedom, remembers and honours the journeys of Russian Mennonite women who led their families to freedom in Canada, mostly in the 1920s…
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My conversion
Categories: ViewpointsRecently the Listening Church video (listeningchurch.ca) was released, in which lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) people speak of their experiences in Mennonite churches. One speaker challenged people “who had changed their minds” to…
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Reducing the potential for drama
Categories: ViewpointsThere was an interesting scene on a recent courtroom drama in which a dying, wealthy woman had taken the time to place sticky notes on precious items around her home…
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The pursuit of truth (Pt. 4)
Categories: ViewpointsIn my experience, Mennonites live by the adages “Actions speak louder than words” and “Faith without works is dead.” One of the things that drew me to Anabaptism was its…
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Crowd surfing
Categories: ViewpointsBanff, Alta., has hosted numerous Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren national youth gatherings. Pictured are youth “crowd surfing” at a 1995 Mennonite Brethren event in Banff. Events like these have been…
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A search for common ground
Categories: UncategorizedThe Ojibway word for medicine is mush-ki-ki, meaning “strength of the earth” or “power from the soil,” explained David Daniels of Long Plain First Nation, located near Portage La Prairie,…
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Listening with the heart
Categories: UncategorizedListening on both sides is vital as indigenous people and settlers continue to learn to walk beside, and relate to, each other. This was one key point that some 70…
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Staying alive amid new financial realities
Categories: UncategorizedIt was the re-entry of the commercial banks into the agricultural lending sector that tipped the balance at Mennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU), prompting its leaders to believe that…
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Pizza lessons
Categories: UncategorizedJohn Biakte, left, Tha Kim and Nan Tin enjoy their first experience of making pizza dough on Feb. 13, 2016, with instruction from Karin Krahn, right. More than 20 people…
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‘I am proud of my roots’
Categories: UncategorizedPeter Harder, a retired senior bureaucrat and high-level corporate advisor with Mennonite roots, was named by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the Liberal government’s leader in the Senate on March…
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Climbing toward a greater unknown
Categories: UncategorizedSpending time with his band mates is one of the first things Oh Village singer/pianist Scott Currie mentions when asked about the best part of making Ocris, the band’s second…
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