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Making a Mennonite
Categories: UncategorizedI did not grow up attending a Mennonite church. Growing up two hours southeast of Winnipeg in Piney, Man., I attended International Christian Fellowship, a small congregation that includes an…
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Cohabitation focus of discussion event at CMU
Categories: UncategorizedWhat is the significance of youth pastors living with their partner outside of marriage? How do young people respond to this information? Sexuality, spirituality, marriage, cohabitation and the church community…
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Healing wounds through art: A YAMEN experience
Categories: Web FirstFor Keila Viana, seeing how art can heal wounds deepened her understanding of God and God’s love during her international service in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. “I believe that during this…
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Anabaptist movement flourishing in South Korea
Categories: Web FirstOn January 30, 2016, nearly 100 people gathered in downtown Seoul, Korea, to participate in the first Korean Anabaptist conference. The goal of the gathering, according to Bock Ki Kim,…
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Biker club Christians de-escalate conflict
Categories: Web FirstViolating the conventions of biker culture landed the United Kingdom Christian motorcycle club, God’s Squad, in hot water. With the help of its president Joseph (pseudonym), who is a member…
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Hugo Friesen and Ted Regehr receive MHSC Awards of Excellence
Categories: Web FirstMeeting at the new Mennonite Heritage Museum in Abbotsford, B.C., gave the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada the opportunity to see this new facility that tells the faith story of…
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Music camp nurtures faith and supportive community
Categories: Web FirstBack in 2009, when I was 12 years old, I remember being crammed into the back row of a standing-room-only crowd at the final concert of the annual Ontario Mennonite…
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On harmony
I’ll be honest right from the beginning: when it comes to music in worship, I’m a hymn-person. Always have been. Especially as a youth, when everyone assumed that because of…
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Philpott: blanket health coverage for refugees
OTTAWA – Health Minister Jane Philpott, along with Immigration Minister John McCallum, have announced blanket health-care coverage for newly arrived refugees, according to the Canadian Press. This essentially rips up…
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Hollywood feminism and the decline of cinema
Categories: Web FirstStar Wars (the original by George Lucas) arrived in Winnipeg in the early summer of 1977. I went to the first screening of the day (around noon) and was so…
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MCC joins Good Soil campaign
Mennonite Central Committee Canada (MCC) has joined with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) in a postcard campaign called Good Soil. This campaign urges the federal government to increase aid for…
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Ten years later
Categories: EditorialCome with us as we look into the future ten years from now (2026), if the recommendations of the Future Directions Task Force are followed in their present form. Regional…
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What is ‘good’ and ‘acceptable’?
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn a time when western society is rapidly altering its image of marriage and government institutions have legally recognized same-sex marriage, the church is pressed to decide: Shall we follow…
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Readers write: February 15, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsGiving and receiving are complicated transactions Re: “God loves a cheerful receiver,” Jan. 4, page 9. When I receive a gift accompanied by a script dictating my response, I feel…
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We are not in control
Categories: ViewpointsSummers in central Saskatchewan are short. Okay, they’re too short. And so when the snow finally melts, the ice disappears and the risk of frost is nearly non-existent, we clear…
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What keeps you up at night?
Categories: ViewpointsWhat keeps you up at night? Your kids? Your bank account? Church problems? Your fears? Your enemies? Your self-justifications? Your habits? Your faults? Other people’s faults? Your hopes and goals?…
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Blessed in the journey
Categories: ViewpointsIn 1980, Grantham Mennonite Brethren Church in St. Catharines, Ont., sponsored me to come to Canada. I had been living in a refugee camp in Nongkhai, Thailand, for a year…
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Where the ‘good news’ is
Categories: ViewpointsAre you wondering where the good news is? It is in surprising and unexpected places. Before we get to that, I need to give some information up front. I have…
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Mennonite refugees arrive in Waterloo
Categories: ViewpointsA camera captures the moment on July 19, 1924, when Mennonite immigrants from Russia met their “Swiss” Mennonite cousins in Ontario. The so-called Swiss Mennonites were the first Mennonites to…
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Future Directions: Myths and message
Categories: UncategorizedBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing…
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