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Outside his comfort zone
Categories: UncategorizedSix months into his first pastoral job, Moses Falco feels very inadequate. “Am I really cut out for this?” and “Do I have the skills to be in this position?”…
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The animals of MCC
Categories: Back PageAround the world, MCC supports projects that help families make a better living, helping them pay for food or school for their children. Sometimes those projects involve animals—getting loans to…
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Elmira ends Hawkesville’s Bible quiz reign
Categories: Web FirstThe team from Elmira Mennonite Church ended the Hawkesville and Markham church dynasties at this year’s Bible quizzing competition, held on April 9, 2016, at Steinmann Mennonite Church near Baden.…
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Grebel announces new faculty member in practical theology
The Conrad Grebel University College (Waterloo, Ont.) board of directors announced the appointment of Carol Penner, Ph.D, as assistant professor of practical theology. Penner completed her doctoral studies at the…
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Retired farming couple uses centrepieces to fight hunger
Categories: Web FirstWhen Henry and Hilda Schulz of Sanford, Man., were still farming, one of the crops they grew was barley. As friends at their church—Sargent Avenue Mennonite in Winnipeg—learned this, they…
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A little experiment in ordinary reality
Categories: Web FirstMarketed “for twenty- and thirty-somethings who wish they could do camp again,” Pastors in Exile (PiE) and Silver Lake Mennonite Camp near Sauble Beach, Ont., ran what they called “Winter…
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Susan Schultz Huxman called to EMU
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) of Harrisonburg, Va., announced on April 13 that Susan Schultz Huxman is their candidate of choice for EMU’s ninth president. The Presidential Search Committee, which includes…
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Bethlehem experiences
‘How you experience holy is different than you expect it to be.’ -Rev. Carrie Ballenger Smith After a year of travel, seeking faith and justice on four continents, there are…
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Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday, The place for bleakness, twisted mourning, black. I like this day, today, How it holds permission to wallow and be in the dark, To wander in the twisted…
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How strong is our DNA?
Categories: Editorial“Those of us who discovered Anabaptism experienced this encounter, as I did, as a homecoming,” wrote Stuart Murray in his now-famous book in our circles, The Naked Anabaptist (2010). “Here…
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Marriage in embodied mystery
Categories: Feature ArticlesMarriage has always been, and continues to be, a perplexing reality for Christians. From the Apostle Paul’s confusing advice to the more recent agonizing over divorce, Christian marriage has been…
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Readers write: April 11, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsJesus ‘affirms’ male-female marital unions Re: “What is ‘good’ and ‘acceptable’?” feature, Feb. 15, page 4. We are greatly encouraged by Darrin W. Snyder Belousek’s scholarly article on marriage. Using…
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Exciting times for our church
Categories: ViewpointsIt is said that change is inevitable. As true as that might be, it doesn’t have to leave us powerless, for we always have a choice of how we decide…
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Optimism in an age of ‘isms’
Categories: ViewpointsIn 2015, for the first time in nearly two centuries of publication, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary chose a suffix as its word of the year. That word was “ism.” To name its…
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Mennonite plays
Categories: ViewpointsDianne Bailey, Mary Bechtel and Beth Good play Mennonite pioneer women in the 1970 production of Trail of the Conestoga. Several ambitious drama projects were undertaken by Ontario Mennonites during…
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Remembering Jesus’ Good Friday journey
Categories: UncategorizedIt’s a Holy Week tradition by now in Abbotsford. On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, a local bookstore/coffee shop is packed with an audience enthusiastic to hear blues music telling…
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MC Alberta defers approval of Future Directions report
Categories: Uncategorized“Take heart, it is I. Do not be afraid.” Chuck Neufeld’s confident voice set the tone for the 2016 Mennonite Church Alberta delegate assembly as he sang the theme words…
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When the church listens
Categories: UncategorizedA new half-hour documentary gives voice to lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) people in Mennonite Church Canada congregations. Listening Church, which weaves together interviews with 22 LGBTQ people from across the geographic…
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Dancing towards reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedJules Koostachin began her journey to dance in a jingle dress as an act of intergenerational healing, thinking that she would complete it in a year. Filmmaker James Buffin decided…
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Unpacking seven myths about youth sports
Categories: UncategorizedWe just dipped our toe into the world of youth sports by signing our seven-year-old son, Sam, up for a T-ball team. Last summer he discovered a love for baseball…
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