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Matt Epp supports Coffee for Peace effort with visit, concert
Categories: Web FirstInternational recording artist and world traveller Matt Epp is performing at a benefit concert to support a unique peacebuilding venture in the Philippines. In March 2015 Epp visited the Philippines…
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Peace books for toddlers
With Peace Sunday past, we approach the time of waiting for the Prince of Peace to be born, so I wanted to share a few children’s books on peace which…
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Mennonites in France pray for Muslims
Categories: Web FirstNone of Mennonite Mission Network’s five international workers was hurt in the November 13, 2015, bombings in Paris, although each one has been affected by them. The workers located in…
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CFB calls for Canada’s leadership in climate change and farming
Categories: Web FirstAs world leaders, including Canada’s new prime minister, meet in Paris November 30 to December 11, 2015, to conclude a major new climate change agreement, their main focus will be…
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Regehr named peace centre’s inaugural Research Fellow
Waterloo, Ont.—Seventy people gathered in the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement (CPA) on Oct. 29, 2015, to join Project Ploughshares, a CPA affiliate, in celebrating the…
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Mennonite shares insights on climate change with government leaders
Categories: Web FirstWillard Metzger will attend the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference, Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 2015, in Paris, France, on behalf of The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), where…
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Lancaster Mennonite Conference leaders vote to leave MC USA
With a vote of 82 percent, credentialled leaders in Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC) have voted to leave Mennonite Church USA. Approximately 80 percent of eligible credentialled leaders participated in the…
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Three church-related views on refugees
Categories: Web FirstThree high profile Mennonite-connected politicians expressed their views this week on how to handle the 25,000 Syrian refugees newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to resettle in Canada by…
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Living on the corner: In the wake of terror in Paris/Beirut/Baghdad
Once again, we have lived through a moment that will continue to define our century. The wake of the triad of terror that has happened in the last days in…
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Peace more than pacifism
Categories: EditorialEvery year at Remembrance Day and Peace Sunday, Canadian Mennonites are torn between honouring those who lost their lives through war and entering into a ritual that celebrates violence as…
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Incubating peace
Categories: Feature ArticlesInnovation is all the rage in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., the place I now call home. A day does not go by without stories about another high-tech start-up in the local paper,…
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Readers write: November 23, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsLeis family ‘victimized by tragedy Re: “Editors ‘lack . . . understanding on issues of clergy sexual abuse’ ” and “Readers disappointed in handling of the Vernon Leis matter” letters,…
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Readers write: November 23, 2015 issue
Categories: UncategorizedLeis family ‘victimized by tragedy Re: “Editors ‘lack . . . understanding on issues of clergy sexual abuse’ ” and “Readers disappointed in handling of the Vernon Leis matter” letters,…
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Ministry in diversity
Categories: Viewpoints“Lord, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I need to be, I am not what I am going to be, but, thank God Almighty,…
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It’s a miracle
Categories: ViewpointsDecember 24. Late morning. I am in the kitchen, making a pot of soup, savouring its scents and colours. Lovely Christmas music pours from the radio. I’m hoping this domestic…
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Sometimes you need to receive
Categories: ViewpointsSome time ago, during a morning walk, I found a wallet a few blocks from my house. I looked around, hoping the owner might still be close by, but there…
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Advent is life
Categories: ViewpointsThe weeks leading up to Christmas brought an overwhelming spirit of anticipation to our household when I was growing up. In fact, the intensity of waiting to open our gifts…
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‘These records are unique’
Categories: UncategorizedThe looping cursive script has turned brown, the yellowing pages are smudged with fingerprints and held together with aged pieces of tape. In the top left corner of the document,…
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‘We should do this again’
Categories: Uncategorized“We should do this again!” commented a Hmong young adult, a sentiment heard often after Kitchener First Mennonite Church’s Assembly Scattered weekend in early October 2015. Nearly 60 youth, children…
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Retreat sparks women’s spiritual gifts
Categories: UncategorizedWarmth was evident all around at the annual B.C. Women’s Ministry retreat. Held from Oct. 16 to 18, 2015, at Camp Squeah, there was warmth in the fire and fireplace…
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