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Lassana Kanneh is healing
Categories: Web FirstIn 1999, along with more than 20,000 Liberian children, 11-year-old Lassana became a soldier. He was kidnapped and forced to use drugs and alcohol, destroy property, and kill in the…
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Canadian Christians call for action on climate change
Categories: Web FirstCanadian Christians concerned about climate change are calling for government action in response to the impact of global warming on the country’s coastlines and vast Artic region. In early July…
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Bike to GROW tops $100K entering Ontario
Categories: Web FirstAs they biked across the Manitoba border into northern Ontario, Mary Fehr and Sarah French had extra power pushing their pedals. Past MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) interns Fehr and…
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Metzger elected VP of Canadian Council of Churches
Willard Metzger, executive director of Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada) was recently elected as vice president of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC). He has represented the MC Canada on…
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They can’t keep up
Categories: Web FirstThe fastest growing Mennonite Church in the world can’t keep up with its need for leadership training and Bibles. The Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Ethiopia, a member of Mennonite…
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Commitment to faith puts farmers at risk
Categories: Web FirstIn the village of Sidi, Burkina Faso, a group of Mennonite Christians risk losing access to the land they farm and to their place within the village community, because of…
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Engaging women’s voices
Categories: Web FirstSeveral women in post-graduate theological studies at Toronto School of Theology (TST) challenged the 20 women and men who gathered on a Saturday in early May with new ways of…
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Nepali churches respond to quake victims
Categories: Web FirstA group of Nepali Anabaptist fellowships is reaching out to communities affected by the April and May 2015 earthquakes in Nepal, with a goal of assisting 2,000 families. The group…
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Reconsidering sacred symbols
Categories: ViewpointsI have had a recurring dream that began after a trip to Italy. During my time there I visited at least 50 churches and was struck with the fact that…
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Humility over hubris
Categories: EditorialA modern-day wannabe prophet calling himself a “marginal Mennonite” audaciously predicts that this year’s Mennonite World Conference gathering will see a “mass exodus” from that body and maybe the end…
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The Sermon on the Mount: living it out in mind and heart
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was down in Mississippi, at a small African-American church. My parents were volunteering there with a ministry that had many different programs going. They had a farm, a clinic,…
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Readers write: July 6, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsIf Christ is not the head, the church suffers dementia My wife has Alzheimer’s disease and is presently in long-term care. While visiting her I have observed other residents suffering…
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You must die
Categories: ViewpointsOn our deck there sits a small pot. It has been sitting in much the same spot for over a year. My youngest son is a budding gardener, and in…
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Winds of change
Categories: ViewpointsIn a couple weeks, my family and I will move to my hometown, Regina, where I’ll start school next fall. Maybe it’s because I’m in a time of transition in…
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Oka: 25 years later
Categories: ViewpointsIt’s been 25 years since the military faced off against Mohawk Warriors in the pine forest between the village of Oka and the community of Kanehsatake, 53 kilometres west of…
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More on Oka
Categories: ViewpointsIn the summer of 1990 the Canadian military faced off against Mohawk Warriors between the village of Oka and the community of Kanehsatake, 53 kilometres west of Montreal, Que. This…
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Hope is a gift friends can give each other
Categories: ViewpointsWhat do Martha Stewart and Yvonne Johnson have in common? They both spent time in prison. Stewart, wealthy and famous, served five months for manipulating stocks, while Johnson was charged…
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Mennonite World Conference, 1962
Categories: UncategorizedIn 1962, Canada hosted the Mennonite World Conference for the first time. Twelve thousand delegates attended; 6,000 of these were billeted in local homes. Historian T.D. Regehr notes in Mennonites…
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Hutterites thank John J. Friesen for teaching courses
Categories: UncategorizedA new artwork honouring a professor from Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and commissioned by the Hutterian Brethren Education Committee was unveiled in CMU’s new library on June 3. It honoured…
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The Gathering Church celebrates ten years
Categories: UncategorizedTwo in three church plants don’t make it past the five-year mark. That doesn’t mean they haven’t been successful, but long life is not part of most church plants. The…
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