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Blankets for vets
Categories: UncategorizedRetired Canadian Forces Captain Wayne Johnston received a warm welcome at 50 Kent, the home of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario and other Mennonite agencies in Kitchener last month. Invited…
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When vets mourn what should Mennos do?
Categories: UncategorizedA new Sunday School peace curriculum in the U.S. pushes Mennonites in a direction very different than the predictable emphasis on the evils of war and the theological superiority of…
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‘Another cool move’
Categories: UncategorizedVernon Erb had a busy fall. Wet weather combined with a late planting season last spring meant the soybeans and corn were hard to get off the fields. “I guess…
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‘Bring the wall down’
Categories: Artbeat“Walls became an obsession when I went to Berlin in 2010,” artist Rhonda Harder Epp told the crowd at the opening of her Walls: Arbitrary Impediments art exhibition at King’s…
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Where is God at the gym?
Categories: UncategorizedI am not a huge fan of going to the gym. I know exercise is good for me, but so is eating vegetables, and I’m not really into that either.…
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‘Keeping it Riel’
Categories: UncategorizedIf an outsider were to walk into a Riel Gentlemen’s Choir practice, it would seem to be a combination of an alternative choral experiment, a boy’s club, a Manitoba fan…
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On theological writing
It’s interesting being a Mennonite and an academic. Sometimes I find my Anabaptist-Mennonite sensibilities grating against the norms of academia: my “priesthood of all believers” mentality against intellectual elitism, my…
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Christian community rallies to help displaced Nigerians
Categories: Web FirstMuslims and Christians are fleeing Maiduguri, a large city in northeastern Nigeria, looking for safer places after Boko Haram insurgents attacked the area over the weekend, and the Nigerian army…
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Youth invited to apply for MDS Summer Youth Program
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is accepting applications for its 2015 Summer Youth program (SYP), which features three unique service opportunity locations in the U.S. and Canada. The application deadline is…
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Psychiatrist researches mental illness among Amish
Categories: Web FirstA decades-long study of genetics and psychiatric illness–in which Dr. Abram Hostetter has played a prominent role–continues to yield new clues about the causes of bipolar disorder and guide the…
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Piece by piece
Categories: Web FirstBecause of safety concerns, full names are not used for some Syrian refugees in this article, and some names have been changed. The garden courtyard in the center of Ahmad…
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“You lost me”? Young adults in/and/of the church
Earlier this month, I was one of many who gathered in the new Marpeck Commons building at Canadian Mennonite University to hear from a panel of “young adults” on their…
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(Grafted Poetry) Remembering that it Happened: Holy Expectation
What is grafted poetry, you ask? It's an invention of my poetic play, and I offer you a definition; /ˈgraft·ed po·et·ry/: A style of writing where in a writer grafts in…
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(Guest Blog) Dickens! We Are Ferguson: Reimagining Racism in Canada
Today's guest blogger is Deanna Zantingh, a masters of Theology student who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Let her powerful insights and sharp intel be the sparks for a new…
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365 days later . . .
Categories: Uncategorized“It’s been a whole year already? Crazy!” That’s what a colleague wrote to me in an e-mail when I told her that Canadian Mennonite’s Year of Reading Biblically (YORB) had…
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MCC establishes first on-campus student club
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has never had a presence in student clubs on Canadian university campuses. Until recently, that is. On Jan. 15, an MCC-run student club was ratified on…
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MCC establishes first on-campus student club
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has never had a presence in student clubs on Canadian university campuses. Until recently, that is. On Jan. 15, an MCC-run student club was ratified on…
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Repairing the peace
Categories: EditorialBefore things “broke badly” for the actor Bryan Cranston, he was in a great family TV show called Malcolm in the Middle. If you’ve seen it, you will remember the…
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For discussion: Breaking the peace
Categories: Feature Articles1. What acts of servanthood have you seen carried out by church leaders? Do your church leaders take a turn working in the kitchen? What message do they send when…
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Breaking the peace
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat to do?” is our anxious impulse. “In the beginning,” God was revealed in creation before there was anyone to appreciate the self-disclosure this represented. It was long before any…
