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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…
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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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