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Celebrating embodied incarnation
Categories: UncategorizedWho delivered the baby and laid him at Mary’s breast, skin upon skin? Was it the Innkeeper’s wife? Who cut the cord tethering him to the womb, birthing a new…
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Secret songs
Categories: UncategorizedIt doesn’t seem right that more people aren’t familiar with singer-songwriter Paul Bergman. Over the past 12 years, Bergman has quietly released five albums. Steeped in the tradition of songwriting…
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Six-year-olds receive Bibles at Hope Mennonite
Categories: Back PageSeven six-year-olds—Niko Van Geest DeGroot, Calum Goetzke, Matea Thiessen Unger, Frieda Nuss Hildebrand, Vito Stoesz, Nicholas Rempel Nighswander and Isabelle Heinrichs—received Bible story books in a church service focussed on…
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Jesus the refugee
Last year I wrote about Advent as a time of pregnant waiting, and of the way that Mary exemplifies mothering as the embodied practice of hospitality, fulfilling the biblical call…
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Anabaptist schools, Scripture and spiritual awakening
Categories: Web FirstIn late September 2015, many of us were enthralled by a rare celestial display: a super moon in total eclipse, also known as a blood moon because of its reddish…
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MDS project directors deeply rooted in service
Categories: Web FirstWhen Peter Thiessen was a teenager, one of his neighbors, a farmer, was injured so badly he couldn’t do the harvest. “It was Halloween night,” recalled Peter, “and my father…
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Welcoming refugees in Germany
Categories: Web First“Above all, we want the refugees to receive what they need in the name of Jesus, for his glory and fame. They need him more than they need clean bedsheets,…
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Updated edition of The Naked Anabaptist released
Categories: Web FirstFive years ago, Stuart Murray’s book The Naked Anabaptist made waves with its look at the central beliefs of Anabaptism and their relevance for Christians today. Now Herald Press has…
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EMU peace director challenges Falwell’s anti-Muslim statements
In a letter challenging Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va., in his recent call to his students to carry concealed weapons so they can “end those Muslims…
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Waterloo community gives generously to refugee efforts
Interest in supporting Syrian refugees is high in the Waterloo, Ont., region, reports the local newspaper. According to the Waterloo Region Record, local refugee advocates call the community’s response “astonishing.” So…
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Mary and Maryam
These are times of uncertainty and hatred, when our political and social discourses are marred by xenophobic, Islamophobic, and just plain racist rhetoric. (Remember the niqab debate during our Canadian…
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Guitar auction on eBay to support Coffee for Peace
In a unique fundraising effort taking place in time for Christmas, a brand new Epiphone DR-100N guitar autographed by more than a dozen well-known Canadian musicians at the 2014 Juno…
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Conference to focus on Amish communities
“Continuity and Change: 50 Years of Amish Society” will be the topic of an upcoming conference organized by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pieties Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College.…
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WCC calls for climate justice and care of creation at COP21
Categories: Web First“We believe that you will serve the world by showing the best of human creativity and capacity,” said Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the World Council…
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A labyrinth of Advent blessing
Categories: Web FirstAt Waterloo North Mennonite Church, the 2014 Advent season began on Nov. 24 with a special labyrinth of blessing for the congregation’s children and youth. A labyrinth of freshly cut…
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More transparency please
Categories: EditorialSexual misconduct cases by our pastors are difficult to process. These stories, numbering three in the last two years in congregations across Canada, are even harder to report in our…
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The shepherd
Categories: Feature ArticlesI still think of myself as a shepherd. Every day, actually every night, I’m out there. I look for the lost, the wanderers and the weary, and I bring them…
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Christmas: A time for giving
Categories: Feature ArticlesBarb and Orrie Gingrich of Holyrood, Ont., have quite a crowd of grandchildren. It was 2008 when Barb began to think of all the gifts being exchanged at her place…
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Readers write: December 14, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsDemographics play a big role in the future of MCC Re: “The future of MCC,” Aug. 31, page 11. I appreciated Will Braun’s attempt to ask this question. Mennonite Central…
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My mechanic, my teacher
Categories: ViewpointsIt may sound a little odd, but I really like my mechanic. I like him because I am very inadequate in my mechanical knowledge and I am grateful for anyone…
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