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Planting opportunity, rebuilding lives
Categories: Web FirstPlanting opportunity, rebuilding lives In Cabaret, 39 kilometres outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince, breezes flutter the sheer fabric hanging in the doorway of Gladys Joseph’s new home. There’s room…
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Linguistic work in Burkina Faso receives international attention
Categories: Web FirstThe Sicite people, a small ethnic group in southwestern Burkina Faso, stepped onto the world’s linguistic stage when their language was awarded a coveted place in the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary…
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The next phase
We’re having a baby boy. We’re excited and scared and overwhelmed and underprepared. Mostly excited, but it’s taken me a little while to get here. I have two young girls.…
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Six resolutions
I’m a fan of new beginnings and fresh starts and the start of the New Year is the ultimate in possibilities and promise. Yes, I am a fan, a big…
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‘It felt like a big deal . . . it was so powerful’
Categories: UncategorizedCraig Friesen and Matthew Wiens rang in 2015 by joining their hands and committing their lives to one another in front of friends and family at a New Year’s Eve…
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Pensions: follow the money
Categories: UncategorizedIn “Do not store up treasures in pensions” Will Braun expresses unease with the fact that Mennonite Church Canada’s “core option” pension funds include investments in the fossil-fuel sector. Here…
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Top 10 online stories in 2014
Categories: Web FirstStories about music, the environment, justice, violence, the Mennonite-Anabaptist community, and sexuality got our readers’ attention this past year. Here’s a glimpse at what was popular among our online readers:…
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Healthcare leaders plan international summit for July 2015
Categories: Web FirstLeaders of Anabaptist/Mennonite healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals will hold a conjoint international meeting during an international leadership summit July 20-21, 2015. The summit will be sponsored by Mennonite World…
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Drawn to the story
Categories: UncategorizedDo you know any atheists who celebrate Easter? I do. As you read this, A Year of Reading Biblically—the challenge I and a number of Canadian Mennonite readers have undertaken…
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Celebrating generosity
Categories: UncategorizedFor the past two years, I have had the pleasure of being activities vice-president on the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Student Council. Along with all the elections, blood donor clinics…
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I resolve to . . .
Categories: EditorialThe dawn of a new year is always alluring to me because there is so much promise. You say goodbye to the year that was. If the previous year was…
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For discussion: An ‘experiment’ in sexuality gone wrong
Categories: Feature Articles1. What has changed since the 1970s and ’80s that conversations about sexual misconduct and sexual abuse are so much more prevalent these days? Does sexual violence happen more now,…
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With aching hearts
Categories: Feature ArticlesSome readers have called for a moratorium on reports about John Howard Yoder’s past misdeeds. We acknowledge that continued attention to this issue has caused pain to Yoder’s family, friends…
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Intimacy is not an invitation to abuse
Categories: UncategorizedEvery 17 minutes, a woman in Canada experiences sexual assault. Many times these women are assaulted by someone they know, sometimes even by someone they’re in a romantic relationship with.…
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An ‘experiment’ in sexuality gone wrong
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe following is excerpted from a longer article, “ ‘Defanging the beast’: Mennonite responses to John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse,” in Mennonite Quarterly Review No. 89 (January 2015), based on…
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Faith vs. belief (Pt. 3)
Categories: ViewpointsI recently came across this sermon illustration differentiating faith and belief. In Daniel 3, King Nebuchadnezzar makes a golden idol 30 metres tall and commands everyone to bow down and…
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Year-round generosity
Categories: ViewpointsThe Christmas holiday season brought a bombardment of consumerism. Retailers hoped you’d blow your shopping budget on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But the day after this festive frenzy is…
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My year of reading the Bible
Categories: ViewpointsAmong other things, 2014 was the year I read the Bible in its entirety. Inspired by Canadian Mennonite Young Voices co-editor Aaron Epp, and with some additional space in my…
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Starting strong
Categories: ViewpointsEarly in the new year many congregations hold their annual general meetings. This is often the time when various leadership positions and volunteer roles are confirmed. But how many congregations…
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Readers write: January 5, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsHow long will natives be patient with Mennonites?
