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Stewarding agricultural diversity across cultures
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) made headlines this fall when it was revealed that workers at its CMU Farm had successfully grown an ancient variety of squash from seeds shared with…
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Will Trudeau boost Mennonite causes?
Categories: UncategorizedWhen a provincial election brought a wave of optimism to Manitoba—or at least parts of it—in 1999, a colleague said, “Yep, the reign of God should descend upon us any…
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Welcoming the stranger
Categories: Uncategorized“You maybe can’t save all the lives, but you can save some.” With these words, Doha Kharsa encouraged her audience to sponsor refugees. Kharsa, herself a Syrian refugee who arrived…
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Leadership changing at MCC Saskatchewan
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan is entering a season of transition. Claire Ewert Fisher has resigned as executive director, a position she has held for the past seven years. In…
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A God bigger than this mess
Categories: UncategorizedAs part of our occasional Faith Journeys series, we share Henry Paetkau’s experience with readers. As Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s area church minister, he originally presented this story as a…
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Miller had major impact on the church
Categories: ArtbeatThe story of Orie O. Miller is also the story of how Mennonites in the 20th century moved from being isolationist and the “quiet in the land,” to being a…
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Coffee for Peace wins UN award
Categories: UncategorizedCoffee for Peace won a certificate of achievement from the United Nations Development Programme. It was one of six winners in the UN’s IIX N-Peace Innovation Challenge for “sustainable, scalable,…
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Challenged, changed, rewarded
Categories: UncategorizedMy partner Suzanne Braun and I spent three years as Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) service workers in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho from 2011-14. As the connecting peoples coordinator and…
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Creating collective psalms of praise
Recently at my church here in central Winnipeg, we have been navigating a sermon series on the Psalms. My small group, some ten or so very diverse people at various…
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Metzger invited to attend UN climate change conference
Willard Metzger’s passion for climate justice and his respected participation in Canadian ecumenical bodies has garnered him an invitation to attend the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference, Nov. 30…
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Pax reunion celebrates MCC service experiences
Categories: Web FirstStories of how their life journeys were shaped by voluntary service filled the room at a reunion of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) service workers who were part of the Pax…
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Peacebuilding thrives amidst Burundi unrest
Categories: Web FirstAs political unrest brings increased violence in Burundi, partners of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) continue building on two decades of peacebuilding to encourage peace. The current political unrest began in…
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Being part of the global church
Categories: Web FirstCongregating junior youth in small-town Saskatchewan may seem like a counter-intuitive way for them to discover their part in the global church body, but that’s what the purpose of this…
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MWC releases worship resources for World Fellowship Sunday
Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has prepared materials to help congregations around the world plan worship for World Fellowship Sunday. It will be next celebrated on Jan. 24, 2016. On that…
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Canadian religious leaders issue statement on euthanasia and assisted suicide
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada have released a joint statement on euthanasia and assisted suicide, at an Oct. 29, 2015 news conference on Parliament…
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An end to all kinds of wars
As we celebrated Peace Sunday at my church this week, a friend of mine got up during the time of sharing and prayer. He told us that November has been…
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Philpott named new Health Minister
Categories: Web FirstJane Philpott, a member of the Community Mennonite Church in Stouffville, Ont., and the chief of family medicine at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, was named today to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal…
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The long view
Categories: EditorialThe year was 1963. D.W. Friesen and Sons of Altona, Man., publishers of 10-year-old The Canadian Mennonite were struggling to keep the first English-language, inter-Mennonite publication financially afloat. The conferences…
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Top five reasons why the customer isn’t always right
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt seems like every second time I open my computer these days I come across the latest instance of what is becoming a very familiar—and obnoxious—brand of writing: the “five…
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Readers write: November 9, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsMC Eastern Canada ‘did what was proper and called for’ Re: “Seeking redemption and peace” guest editorial by Joyce Gladwell, Sept. 28, page 2. I am disappointed that you would…
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