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Jesus poses a problem
Categories: ViewpointsHow do questions bring you closer to God? The Bible includes several hundred instances where Jesus poses a question to an individual, a small group of followers or a large…
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A most grievous sin
Categories: ViewpointsOne of the greatest days of Jesus’ ministry was marked by one of his greatest laments. He rides toward Jerusalem amid a worshipping throng waving palm branches and declaring Messianic…
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Ready to listen and learn
Categories: ViewpointsMy memories of the church I grew up in are good ones. I liked seeing my friends in Sunday school every week and enjoyed singing in the grown-up service. The…
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Sister Care comes to Canada
Categories: ViewpointsDuring my first year as a member of the Women of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (WMCEC) executive, I was fortunate to be invited to an information session about the possibility…
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1960s radio broadcast of a men’s quartet
Categories: ViewpointsThis photo is of a men’s quartet singing for a radio broadcast in a Vancouver Mennonite church basement circa the 1960s. Advances in mass communication such as radio were first…
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Church geeks serve PiE
Categories: UncategorizedBoth Jessica Reesor Rempel and Chris Brnjas are fond of puns, as perhaps only geeks are. Self-professed “church geeks,” they kicked off their new ministry, Pastors in Exile (PiE) at…
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Blanket exercise teaches about colonialism
Categories: UncategorizedAn interactive blanket exercise on Missions Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, shows members of Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C., a different way of looking at Canadian history. Indigenous representatives had…
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Celebrating the past, anticipating the future
Categories: UncategorizedBringing a long-standing and dearly loved institution to an end is not an easy thing to do. The members of Saskatchewan Women in Mission (SWM) have at least shown that…
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‘Never mind decolonization; learn to love yourself’
Categories: UncategorizedPeople who want to love their indigenous neighbours must first learn to love themselves, according to Dr. Patricia Vickers, a psychotherapist and Tsimshian theologian. Vickers spoke at an event organized…
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Walking together . . . rather than around each other
Categories: UncategorizedShe is a novelist and world traveller, speaks Mandarin and has a brown belt in karate. Shaimaa Kraba also wears a hijab and is a Sunni Muslim. At the third…
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‘Freud might have had fun’
Categories: ArtbeatLeona (Unger) Rogalsky was born into an Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC) family in southern Manitoba in the 1930s. During her childhood, her family spent some time in the Gospel Hall,…
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New book and film focus on conscientious objection
Categories: ArtbeatConrad Stoesz, Mennonite Heritage Centre (MHC) archivist, is passionate about pursuing peace and the history of conscientious objection to war. His long-held convictions inspired him to contribute a chapter to…
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Being Mennonite 101
Categories: UncategorizedIt could be that thousands of people have learned about Mennonites from Katie Steckly. Early last year, the 19-year-old, who grew up in Milverton, Ont., and is a member of…
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Solace in a subculture
Categories: UncategorizedIt takes Anna Chemar almost two hours to dress in her favourite style. The elaborate makeup alone requires 45 minutes. Carefully slipping into the clothes—bell-shaped skirt, blouse and corset—takes another…
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Selfies: This generation’s cigarette
Categories: Web FirstCellphones are this generation’s cigarette. That was one analysis provided by Jerry Holsopple and Linford Stutzman to students participating in an October Living and Learning Forum at Eastern Mennonite University.…
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Penner named new MDS director of Canadian operations
Ross Penner, of Winnipeg, recently accepted the role of director of Region V operations and will begin work at the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) office in Winnipeg on Nov. 9,…
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Winnipeg churches throw wedding party for Syrian refugee couple
Categories: Web FirstWhen Brian Darweesh and Reem Younes got married, they were living as refugees in Lebanon. They left their homes in Syria, fleeing violence and a threat on Darweesh’s life. At…
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Bethany Mennonite reaches half-century milestone
Categories: Web FirstThe way Bill Goertz remembers it, every time it seemed that the building plan for Bethany Mennonite Church was settled, Victor Dyck would come to yet another caffeine-fuelled Founders Committee…
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Parkview Home celebrates 50 years of service
Categories: Web FirstThe Parkview auditorium was filled on Sept. 27, 2015, as residents, past and present board members, and community supporters gathered to celebrate 50 years of service to the community by…
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Mennonites, medicine, and the body
I had the privilege of participating in a conference this past weekend (Oct. 23, 24, 2015) at the University of Winnipeg hosted by Royden Loewen, the chair of Mennonite Studies.…
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