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Lebold dinner funds new pastoral training program
Categories: UncategorizedA new focus was announced this year at the Ralph and Eileen Lebold Endowment fundraising dinner, because last year it reached its goal of $1 million to fund pastoral training…
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New peace award at Grebel to empower women
Categories: UncategorizedConrad Grebel University College is offering a $10,000 scholarship to a female Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPACS) student, thanks to a partnership with Ziauddin Yousafzai, the Global Peace…
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Ride for Refuge to support ministry in Thailand
Categories: UncategorizedNortheast Thailand is the poorest region in the country. Democracy is uneven, and peaceful protests can land protesters in barred cells overnight. Since a military coup in 2014, poor and…
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Jamie Arpin-Ricci a man of surprising contrasts
Categories: UncategorizedHe pastors Little Flowers Community, a small Mennonite congregation in Winnipeg’s west end neighbourhood that chose to belong to the larger church body through Mennonite Church Manitoba/Mennonite Church Canada. He…
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Church growth is the wrong narrative
Categories: Artbeat“Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way,” is how Stanley Hauerwas describes this book, noting that, “God is making us leaner and…
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A different way of thinking
Categories: UncategorizedImagine these words as pictures with no direct meaning. That’s part of what it’s like to have dyslexia. “Dyslexia is a different way of thinking,” says Mattea Nickel, 19. She…
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Baking cookies for clean water
Categories: UncategorizedTyreese Hildebrandt is a 10-year-old who dreams of helping people to have clean drinking water. A while back, Hildebrandt read a book that touched him deeply. Ryan and Jimmy and…
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Women’s retreat a time for worship and laughter
Categories: Back PageAbout 60 women between the ages of 20 and 80 gathered for a Mennonite Church Alberta women’s retreat at Sylvan Lake on May 22-24, 2015. They joined together to worship,…
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Individual vs. person
Sometimes I think the church struggles with the tension between its individual members and its task of being a communal body. In a socio-economic context such as ours, where individual…
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Saskatchewan Valley Auction celebrates 35 years
Categories: Web FirstIt was raining hard, but nobody was unhappy as they pulled into Walter and Peggy Wiebe’s farmyard near Osler, Sask. on June 20, 2015, for the 35th annual Saskatchewan Valley…
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Golf tournament raises $53,500 for charity
Good course conditions prevailed for the 13th annual charity golf tournament organized by the Leamington Mennonite Home, June 20, 2015, at Erie Shores Golf and Country Club. In this year’s…
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Website launched for Quebec Mennonite history
La Société d'Histoire mennonite du Québec is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: www.histoiremennonite.quebec. A significant part of the society’s work has been writing articles for the…
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Abigail, the peacemaker
This week I was reminded of a biblical figure who is often overlooked: Abigail (or, as my Bible disappointingly calls her, “the wife of Nabal”!). Her story is found in…
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What do we take away from the TRC?
Categories: EditorialThe ripples from the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing and report held in Ottawa early this month after five years of hearings across Canada are far-reaching and damning. Almost…
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Asking passively, seeking aggressively
Categories: Feature Articles“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?” (Matthew 7:9-10). I have…
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Readers write: June 22, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsIntegrity doesn’t hinge on the name ‘Mennonite’ Re: “ ‘Mennonite’ name should stay” letter, March 30, page 10. My friend Albert Isaac used the former Niagara Credit Union as an…
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A graduation blessing
Categories: Viewpoints’Tis the season of graduations. Society recognizes graduation as an important transition in the lives of young people and so we ritualize the event with special ceremonies. At a typical…
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Is that driving you to lust?
Categories: ViewpointsLooking out the café window on a warm spring day, I watched as a short, rotund man pulled off his shirt and bared his quite large tummy to the friendly…
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Communication is key
Categories: ViewpointsA will is your last communication with your family. Many of us are uncomfortable planning for our death, but the chaos, confusion and potential for conflict in families where there…
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Moving thinward (Pt. 5)
Categories: ViewpointsThe brilliant Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, “The world is in truth a holy place.” He was echoing the words of the prophet Isaiah who wrote, “the whole…
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