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Mennonites eager to help refugees, slowed by red tape
Categories: Web FirstNot long after a heart-wrenching photo of a refugee toddler lying lifeless on a Turkish beach hit the news, phones at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada began ringing off their…
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Show inclusion, compassion for refugees
Right now, it would be judicious of the Conservative government to relax its tight restrictions on refugee sponsorship and annual quotas in order to gain favour during the federal election…
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Mennonite-owned business closed when asked to unionize
DEVLIN, Ont. — Leon Gingrich, president of Gingrich Woodcraft Inc. and a member of the Mine Centre (Ont.) Mennonite Church, informed his 25 employees he is closing the business after…
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What do you think?
Categories: EditorialIt’s been 14 years since Canadian Mennonite conducted an independent readership survey. In the next edition (Sept. 28), print and digital readers will find a list of questions that invite…
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Christian reflections on balance and the Middle East
Categories: Feature ArticlesNot long ago I returned from a trip to the Middle East, where I led a group of ten students from Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute (MBCI) in Winnipeg through many…
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Readers write: September 14, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsMWC should celebrate mission conference in 2027 The 2015 Mennonite World Conference assembly was indeed a significant event for our movement. In response to the question posed in one of…
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How do you pray?
Categories: Viewpoints“There are no atheists in foxholes.” So goes the maxim with roots in the Second World War. Caught in a pinch, surrounded by stress and fear, most human beings turn…
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Staying put
Categories: ViewpointsMy family and I moved from Vancouver to Regina in July and are slowly searching for a faith community. So far we’ve attended two churches close to where we live,…
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Anna Thiessen, Winnipeg missionary
Categories: ViewpointsMissionary to the city of Winnipeg, Anna Thiessen, is seated with some girls she worked with in 1919. Rural life has been an important part of Mennonite life and self-understanding.…
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Gathering footprints of faith at Mennonite World Conference assembly
Categories: ViewpointsI can hardly find words to describe the experience of worshipping, singing, eating and fellowshipping with about 7,500 others at Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly, held in Harrisburg, Pa., this…
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Conrad Grebel partners with Tabor Manor in chaplaincy internship
Categories: UncategorizedMichelle Koop grew up going to Vineland (Ont.) United Mennonite Church, next to the Vineland Mennonite Home. She worked at the Home and helped care for the father of Ed…
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South Korean CO freed after 15 months
Categories: UncategorizedConscientious objector (CO) Sang-Min Lee, a member of Grace and Peace Mennonite Church in Seoul, South Korea, is free. He was released from prison on July 30, after serving 15…
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Mennonites in Panama oppose clear-cutting, request prayer
Categories: UncategorizedWith the future of the Wounaan indigenous people of Panama being chopped down before their eyes, the largely Mennonite leadership of the group is asking the global Mennonite community to…
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More on the Wounaan people
Categories: UncategorizedThe Wounaan indigenous people of Panama, renowned carvers of cocobolo wood, are fighting the incursion of outsider loggers into their territory. About 600 of the roughly 15,000 Wounaan in Panama…
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Mennonites have yet to reckon with their role in ‘sixties scoop’
Categories: UncategorizedMarcel French’s tanned complexion and dark hair easily identify him as Anishinabe. Which is why he likes to drop a Low German word or expression into his speech and watch…
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Sunday dinners with the homeless
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee B.C.’s offices and thrift shop may be closed on Sunday, but two Sunday afternoons a month there is plenty of activity in the back parking lot of…
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New director hopes to increase restorative justice
Categories: UncategorizedParkland Restorative Justice has a new executive director. The agency, which is supported by Mennonite Church Saskatchewan (MC Sask), hired Heather Driedger to fill the position recently vacated by Ryan…
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Ontario Mennonite Music Camp explores ‘pride and prejudice’
Categories: ArtbeatWhen Linnea Thacker suggested to her co-director of Ontario Mennonite Music Camp, Elizabeth Rogalsky Lepock, that they perform a shortened version of My Fair Lady as the musical at the…
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Beholding the grey area
Categories: UncategorizedThe Tent of Nations is a family farm situated in the Palestinian hills near Bethlehem in the West Bank, owned by the Palestinian-Christian Nassar family since 1916. The farm overlooks…
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Seniors and youth find common ground at Friendship Manor
Categories: UncategorizedFor Beverley Winter, the Friendship Manor community includes teenagers from the Altona Mennonite Church (AMC) youth group. Winter looks forward to monthly Sunday morning breakfasts with the youth group, a…
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