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Goshen College students to sing for peace in hymn marathon
Categories: Web FirstWith the goal of uniting in harmony to bring peace to a troubled world, Goshen College’s Hymn Club will bring together students and community members to sing continuously through every…
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An open letter to my beloved church
Categories: Web FirstI am profoundly reluctant to write this letter because I know there are those it will wound deeply. But I have also come to the conviction that I can no…
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Canadian legislation would ban ‘barbaric cultural practices’
Categories: Web FirstCanada is weighing legislation that would ban arranged marriages of minors and make polygamy grounds for deportation. The “Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act,” introduced on November 5 by…
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Swords into ploughshares
“So they took up arms, these and a million other Canadians – men and women – who put on the uniform and beat their ploughshares into swords.” – Prime Minister…
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Thai Anabaptists hear stories of radical forgiveness
Categories: Web FirstPrior to Lek (not his real name) believing in Jesus, ten of his fifteen children died. After he became a Christian, his children stopped dying. People in his village noticed!…
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Mennonite seminary releases statement on violence against Islamic State
Categories: Web FirstWhile “deeply shaken” by the terror caused by IS (Islamic State) militias in Iraq and Syria, “we believe that the situation does not render pacifist convictions obsolete,” declared the faculty…
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A ‘small protest’ they call home
Categories: UncategorizedNewlyweds Jared and Rachel Regier are building a new home in Saskatoon . . . and it’s no bigger than a garage. The couple, who attend Nutana Park Mennonite Church,…
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On a radical journey
Categories: UncategorizedAs a student at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener, Ont., I was taught to care about the well-being of others. When I graduated in 2009, I originally planned to pursue social…
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More than mindless fun and death
Categories: UncategorizedVideo games are fun. They can be seen as an escape from reality, but often provide an opportunity to overcome challenges. Many of them are violent. However, for every violent…
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When faith and politics intersect
Categories: EditorialAmong other shifting sands in the Mennonite world is how we view our relationship to the state, moving from a stance of a nonviolent witness but not participation, to one…
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For discussion: ‘Seeking the welfare of the city’
Categories: Feature Articles1. How long ago did Mennonites in your community begin holding public office? Was there a time when local/municipal offices were deemed appropriate for Mennonites, but not provincial or federal…
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‘Seeking the welfare of the city’
Categories: Feature Articles“In the New Testament,” said Arnold Neufeldt-Fast, who ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont., on Oct. 27, “the state is understood as part…
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Readers write: November 10, 2014 issue
Categories: ViewpointsIf lesbians can’t be ordained is there still a place for ordination? Re: “MC U.S.A. will not recognize pastors in same-sex unions,” Sept. 15, page 19. The controversy as it…
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Writing on the walls of my little room
Categories: ViewpointsMy mother sternly warned me against doing such a thing, and I’m sure I echoed her feelings to my children and grandchildren as they grew up. Yet, as the years…
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Local worship
Categories: ViewpointsFor most of my life, I’ve driven to church. Growing up in Regina, the Alliance church I attended was a 15-minute drive away. In Winnipeg, while living at Canadian Mennonite…
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Why we need to follow the leader
Categories: ViewpointsDo you remember playing Follow the Leader? Do you recall the squabbles over who got to lead? Most everyone wanted to set the pace and be the example at some…
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The only ways forward
Categories: ViewpointsI had the privilege of spending the first week of October on a learning tour in the United Kingdom with eight young adult leaders from Mennonite Church Eastern Canada. The…
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Faith groups lament for the killed and wounded
Categories: UncategorizedWe share in the grief and shock our nation is feeling. We honour Corporal Nathan Cirillo and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, who were killed. Our prayers for comfort and healing…
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Response to a sad day in Ottawa
Categories: UncategorizedLike many Canadians, I find myself in a place of sadness following the senseless violence in our capital city on Oct. 22, two days after a similar incident in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu,…
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Canada sidesteps UN Arms Trade Treaty
Categories: UncategorizedCanada is not among the nations to ratify the new United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that seeks to better regulate the $85-billion global arms industry and thus prevent weapons from…
