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New Christian music festival focuses on justice
Categories: ArtbeatOrganizers of Canada’s newest festival of music, faith and social justice hope that the Skylight Festival will invigorate a generation of socially conscious Christians. The first Skylight Festival will take…
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Lessons learned at L’Abri
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Tasha Janzen thinks back to her time in Switzerland last year, learning the importance of life balance is one of the biggest things that sticks out for her. The…
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Home Depot and a dog named Flash
Categories: UncategorizedHome Depot and a golden lab: these two things are important parts of Megen Olfert’s life. Olfert, 31, of Saskatoon, has paraplegic high spastic cerebral palsy. The condition keeps her…
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Spreading the word about GROW
Categories: UncategorizedMary Fehr just learned to ride a bike a few years ago, when she was 17. Now she and Sarah French are cycling thousands of kilometres across Canada—from Victoria, B.C.,…
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Making peace with the snow
Categories: Back PageIn an effort to do something creative with the snow from this past winter, these three snow words were made in front of Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. However, these…
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Ally or accomplice: What does the Lord require of us?
There is a popular language arising in the church when it comes to justice work, that of “being an ally.” It means to align yourself with whoever your “other” is,…
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By tractor, truck, foot—supplies reach rural Nepal
Categories: Web FirstUsing tractors and people power to haul supplies where trucks could not go, Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) partner organizations finished an initial distribution of emergency supplies to Nepal earthquake survivors…
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Theology for toddlers
Here’s an unusual question: Do the children in your life read theology books? It might seem odd to combine a big, academic word like theology (the study of God, or…
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New executive director for Anabaptist Disabilities Network
Kathleen Nofziger Yeakey of Goshen, Ind. has joined the Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) as executive director, to complement the work of Christine Guth, who continues as program director. Nofziger Yeakey,…
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Bergen retires from MC Canada
After 11 years of serving with Mennonite Church Canada as Executive Minister, Christian Formation, Dave Bergen is retiring at the end of August 2015. “This is the culmination of several…
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Mennonite Archival Image Database now online
Visualizing the past just became a little easier, especially if the past you want to encounter has anything to do with Mennonites. The Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID) is now available…
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Christ as Christa
Earlier this year I was invited to give a lecture on feminist Christology to a class of undergraduate students. Now feminist Christology is something very dear to me, even though…
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MDS recognized for Hurricane Sandy response
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) was recently awarded the 2015 “Member of the year” by the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, a U.S.-based coalition of 120 non-profit disaster response organizations.…
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Fund established for survivors of Yoder abuse
The Discernment Group working to care for victims of John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse and to advocate against sexual abuse in the Mennonite church has established a Care and Prevention…
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Readers write: May 25, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsHistory of Niagara Township Credit Union clarified by a founder’s son Re: “‘Mennonite’ name should stay” letter, March 30, page 10. Albert Isaac’s comments about the Niagara Township Credit Union…
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Record number of guests attend Grebel’s convocation
Categories: Web First“Convocation is a time to celebrate!” With this announcement, President Susan Schultz Huxman welcomed a record number of guests sharing the day with 165 graduating students. The 2015 Conrad Grebel…
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Canadian Mennonite University celebrates class of 2015
Categories: Web FirstWhen Joseph Kiranto moved from Kenya to study at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), he wasn’t sure what he wanted to major in. Each class he attended piqued his interest. “Before…
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Communities come together when the earth breaks apart
Categories: Web FirstKatrina Labun is an MCC SALT participant serving in Kathmandu, Nepal. She shares about her experience following the April 25, 2015, earthquake. I was with my host family in…
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Mennonite Christians are unique
Categories: Feature ArticlesJust as there are Lutheran, Baptist and Anglican Christians, so there are Mennonite Christians. The name “Mennonite” is most appropriately used as an adjective rather than a noun. We are…
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MWC: a respite in a troubled world
Categories: EditorialThe Anabaptist/Mennonite worldwide communion has come a long way since the first Mennonite World Conference some 90 years ago. Organized by Christian Neff, a German Mennonite pastor, only 100 persons…
