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What’s so funny?
Categories: UncategorizedOrlando Braun has always been fascinated by filmmaking. He recalls being a child and making detective films with his father’s camcorder, but never thought he could one day make a…
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What’s so funny?
Categories: UncategorizedOrlando Braun has always been fascinated by filmmaking. He recalls being a child and making detective films with his father’s camcorder, but never thought he could one day make a…
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‘An even bigger vision’
Categories: UncategorizedIf you are a young adult considering going to the Global Youth Summit that will immediately precede the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly in July, Kristina Toews thinks you should…
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‘An even bigger vision’
Categories: UncategorizedIf you are a young adult considering going to the Global Youth Summit that will immediately precede the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly in July, Kristina Toews thinks you should…
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From Macau to Manitoba
Categories: UncategorizedWinnipeg graphic designer Matt Veith stepped out of his comfort zone last November and helped develop a business idea at Ramp Up Manitoba, an entrepreneurial festival. It paid off. He…
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From Macau to Manitoba
Categories: UncategorizedWinnipeg graphic designer Matt Veith stepped out of his comfort zone last November and helped develop a business idea at Ramp Up Manitoba, an entrepreneurial festival. It paid off. He…
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Pensions and recklessness
Categories: UncategorizedIn “Do Not Store up Treasures in Pensions” (Jan. 5, 2015 issue) I wrote about Mennonite Church (MC) Canada's “core option” pension plan and the complications of Socially Responsible Investment.…
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A difficult debate
Categories: EditorialSince the 1980s, the Mennonite church has been debating how it should relate to those who are same-sex attracted. It has been a long and difficult debate, and it isn’t…
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For discussion: A biblical and better way
Categories: Feature Articles1. How has our society’s attitude toward same-sex relationships changed in the past 20 or 30 years? Who or what has contributed to this shift? How much has the church…
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A biblical and better way
Categories: Feature ArticlesTheologically conservative Christians are widely perceived as hostile to gays. And it is largely our own fault. Many of us have actually been homophobic. Most of us tolerated gay bashers.…
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Looking back on a most incredible journey
Categories: ViewpointsA few years ago, when I prayed for a greater sense of social responsibility and deeper bonds with fellow Christians, I had no idea God would answer my prayer as…
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Changes for the church
Categories: ViewpointsIf there was one book in 2014 that had me despairing and cursing, but fired up to hope, it was Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything (Knopf Canada). Klein is a…
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Take on a demon
Categories: ViewpointsWhom are you battling? Can you picture them or it? Everyone is at war, some on numerous fronts. “Be kind,” wrote Philo of Alexandria. “Everyone you meet is fighting a…
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‘Walk alongside’
Categories: ViewpointsTwitter informed me this morning that Bethany College in Hepburn, Sask., is closing in 2015 after 87 years of teaching. Ron Toews, director of the Canadian Conference of MB Churches’…
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Readers write: January 19, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsMennonites share their faith through their lives
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Holy recklessness
Categories: UncategorizedI recall saying in my youth that “Christianity does not come equipped with standard airbags and anti-lock brakes,” features commonly advertised for cars at the time. I felt society’s fixation…
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Reclaiming Ethiopia
Categories: UncategorizedManitoba correspondent Evelyn Rempel Petkau journeyed to Ethiopia last fall as part of a Canadian Foodgrains Bank-sponsored learning tour and reports her findings of the NGO’s work with Mennonite Central…
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‘Sky pilot’ lands in Black Creek
Categories: UncategorizedIn the 1800s, church clergy were often called “sky pilots,” in part in reference to their heavenly themes from the pulpit. Aviator Gerry Binnema has recently become the new pastor…
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Normal people doing normal things
Categories: ArtbeatWhen filmmakers get around to showing their work to their family and community, it is usually a past project for them. Such was the case for Rosco Films, whose principals—Jon…
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‘What kind of fanatics worship such a God?’
Categories: ArtbeatNine months after Darren Aronofsky’s biblical spectacle, Noah, we get Ridley Scott’s biblical spectacle, Exodus: Gods and Kings. I wasn’t a big fan of Noah, but at least it was…
