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Readers want CM to remain a print publication
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite thanks everyone who took the time to fill out the reader survey distributed late in 2015. The responses were positive overall and showed that the magazine is generally…
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Bound to disagree, freed to love
Categories: UncategorizedConflict within, uncertainties without. Perhaps it was because of these that planners of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions chose “Bound together, freed to serve” as their theme for the…
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Alberta youth enjoy snow camps
Categories: UncategorizedDespite a warm winter, there was enough of the white stuff for youth from Mennonite churches across Alberta to call their annual winter retreats “snow camps.” On the weekends of…
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The Bible says what?
Categories: UncategorizedIn her opening address to this year’s Pastors Week event at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, held during the last week of January 2016, Jewel Gingerich Longenecker, the school’s dean of…
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Do young people care about the future of the church?
Categories: UncategorizedNever let it be said that young people don’t care about the future of the church. Late last year, Katrina Woelk, a sociology student at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and…
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A hope for home
Categories: UncategorizedFor the most part, Syrians forced from their homes dream not of going to Europe or Canada, but of going back home. “They are in love with their country,” say…
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Who is matching whose funds?
Categories: UncategorizedThe federal government sometimes “matches” donations made by Canadians for specific causes. Does this mean that if you give $100 to MCC for Syria, Ottawa gives another $100 to MCC,…
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A Red Sea kind of life
Categories: UncategorizedScott Eyre, residence director of Cedarwood Hall at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), sports photographer for the Royals, and soon-to-be-graduate, says the journey to the present day has included “a lot…
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Celebrating the resilience of Mennonite women
Categories: ArtbeatThere are courageous women around every corner, especially at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre in Saskatoon, where the 26 paintings of Ray Dirks’s Along the Road to Freedom exhibit are currently…
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Researching the past to understand the present
Categories: Uncategorized“Why couldn’t I have been more interested in Caribbean history?” That’s what historian Stefan Epp-Koop asked himself during a December 2007 visit to Winnipeg, as he trudged through a deep…
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Welcoming the vulnerable
Categories: UncategorizedFrom Feb. 18-20, I was part of a group of 30 students and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) staff from across Canada who met in Ottawa for the annual MCC Student…
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I feel it’s my country now
Categories: Web FirstThe greeting you get when visiting Yhya Al Kurdi’s apartment is full of excitement. Before you actually reach the door, Al Kurdi has opened it and stands at the end…
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Vietnam Mennonite Church ordains 26
Categories: Web FirstAfter six years of training and preparation, the Vietnam Mennonite Church (VMC), a Mennonite World Conference member, ordained 26 pastors in Ho Chi Minh City on 5 December 2015. Pastor…
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Prairie Meadow Place is ‘a wonderful place’ for seniors
Categories: Web FirstDorine Russell sits in a comfortable armchair in her new room at Prairie Meadow Place, a cup of coffee by her side. “This is a wonderful place,” she says. “I…
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Learning firsthand about hunger in Nicaragua
Categories: Web FirstKarla Fehr, a member of Blumenort Mennonite Church in Gretna, Man., was part of a food study tour group organized by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. They travelled to Nicaragua for…
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MSCU members vote in favour of name change
Kitchener, Ont.—Mennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU) will be changing its name to Kindred Credit Union after the change was approved at a special general meeting of members on Feb.…
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MCC responds to government’s re-tooled mission in Syria and Iraq
Prime Minister Trudeau recently announced Canada’s new policy to address the ongoing crises in Iraq and Syria. The announcement highlighted Canada’s new humanitarian, diplomatic, and military approaches in the region. As…
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Living with paradoxes
Categories: EditorialIn a blog post a year ago, The Mennonite’s Tim Nafziger references John Paul Lederach’s book The Moral Imagination, in which the author describes what he calls “paradoxical curiosity.” It’s…
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Encountering the vulnerable Jesus
Categories: Feature ArticlesLent is a 40-day season on the church calendar that brings the story of Jesus into the nitty-gritty of community life. It brings the story into everyone’s own particular time…
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Readers write: March 14, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsChurch leaders thanked for naming Vernon Leis I want to publicly say thank you to Mennonite church leaders for speaking up against sexual misconduct in the case against Vernon Leis,…
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