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Buffalo shout, Mennonites discuss
Categories: UncategorizedThey met in the library at Rosthern Mennonite Church, a good place for a book discussion group to meet. It wasn’t a typical book discussion group, but then they weren’t…
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Remembering Mandela
Categories: UncategorizedNelson Mandela passed away a year ago last December, at the age of 95. Although we knew this time was coming, it does not alleviate the sorrow experienced by South…
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Do not store up treasures in pensions
Categories: UncategorizedI like the Bible verse that says, “Do not store up treasures on earth,” but I also like the thought of a few treasures on the side for the sake…
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Chiara House officially opens
Categories: Uncategorized“When one of our members suffered from untreated mental illnesses and committed suicide quite publicly five years ago, we realized how critical it is to provide community supports and affordable…
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‘Stores are closed. There is shooting’
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) is appealing for donations to significantly scale up its humanitarian assistance in eastern Ukraine. Continued violence and armed conflicts have forced hundreds of thousands of people…
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Carpe diem
Categories: UncategorizedIn his “Remembering Jack” soliloquy at Jack Dueck’s memorial service, the famous Mennonite novelist and writer, Rudy Wiebe, termed his friend, “a very large and complex human being,” and rendered…
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Join the fight
Categories: ArtbeatDirected by Francis Lawrence. Screenwriters: Peter Craig and Danny Strong. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. A Color Force/Lionsgate release, 2014. Rated PG-13. “Stop the senseless violence. This isn’t the…
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Making space for the stranger
We are accustomed to reading the narrative of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) as something of an ethereal event, a moment of encounter with the divine realm during which Mary’s feet…
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Making Space for the Stranger
We are accustomed to reading the narrative of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) as something of an ethereal event, a moment of encounter with the divine realm during which Mary’s feet…
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MWC urges prayer for suffering church in Nigeria
Categories: Web FirstFor the second time in four months Mennonite World Conference issued an urgent appeal for prayer, this time for the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria…
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MWC seeks vocalists for international ensemble
Categories: Web FirstMennonite World Conference is seeking gifted vocalists to join the International Vocal Ensemble for the Pennsylvania 2015 Assembly. This ensemble will lead congregational singing during the Assembly. The singing and…
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Prayer Network launched for PA 2015
Categories: Web FirstMennonite World Conference is establishing a prayer network, recognizing the importance of prayer as preparations are made for PA 2015, the global Assembly being planned for July 21-26, 2015, in…
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‘We’re out of everything’
Categories: Web FirstIt’s not just you. The news was been particularly bad last year. Islamic State is gaining ground, while videos of beheadings and other violence circulate online. In the same region,…
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Advent as “God’s time’
Time. We never seem to have enough of it, and yet it dominates us, ruling our days and how we view and spend our hours, even our very lives. Time…
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Rocking in ‘Color’
Categories: UncategorizedAs a youth group leader at Trinity Baptist Church in Kelowna, B.C., I know how difficult it can be to capture young people’s imaginations. But when the Color, a Christian…
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Different ways of doing church
Categories: UncategorizedEarly this past October, I sat with a cup of peppermint tea in a church in the small town of Cobridge, England. The church had four walls, long windows and…
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Inviting the whole family to the table
Categories: UncategorizedIt’s been 25 years since a Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly has been held in North America, but next year Mennonites from all over the world will congregate in Harrisburg,…
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The power of words
Categories: Editorial“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was toward God.” I remember vividly the moment in an introductory Greek class that this sentence surprised me. We were asked…
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For discussion:Three meditations on Christmas mysteries
Categories: Feature Articles1. What strangers have you encountered this Christmas season? Who are the wise and contemplative thinkers who help us to see where heaven is reaching down to earth? How do…
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How ‘The Commitment’ came to be
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt all began in January 2014. My husband Gary and I started to research conventional nativity art and arrived at a new vision. We decided to focus attention on the…
