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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?
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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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