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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…
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Three meditations on Christmas mysteries
Categories: Feature ArticlesA gathering of strangers The Christmas stories include an odd assortment of strangers. The guest list for the party that would eventually become the familiar nativity scene omitted all of…
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Readers write: December 15, 2014 issue
Categories: ViewpointsFeature takes us ‘where we need to go’ Re: “What is truth?” feature, Oct. 27, page 4. I want to thank writer Dave Rogalsky and Canadian Mennonite very much for…
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An uneasy transition
Categories: ViewpointsThis is my seventh year living in Canada. My transition from Japan to Canada wasn’t easy, since I love my country and my family. I especially love the church where…
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Movember is the new Christmas
Categories: ViewpointsI have a goatee. I’ve had it for a while and, as my wife reminds me, my kids can’t even remember me without it. I can barely remember me without…
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A deeper view of bread
Categories: ViewpointsWhen I was a child, my mother used to bake buns every Saturday. It seemed to me that she would make hundreds of them. She baked so that on Sunday…
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RJC envisions a bigger, better school
Categories: Uncategorized“Do more. Be more.” These words sound a little like the mantra of a motivational speaker. They are, in fact, the name given to a new five-year strategic fundraising plan…
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CMU opens Marpeck Commons
Categories: UncategorizedFor the past year-and-a-half, residents of Winnipeg have watched as Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) built a pedestrian bridge linking its north and south campuses over a busy thoroughfare. On Nov.…
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More viewpoints: Smudging
Categories: UncategorizedTo celebrate its 50th anniversary Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Manitoba planned an event to be held on Nov. 15, 2014, at the Immanuel Pentecostal Church in Winnipeg, a venue MCC…
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MCC Manitoba stands with Buffalo Gals
Categories: UncategorizedThe landmark event was intended, in part, to promote reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. That goal will likely be achieved to a far greater extent than organizers ever imagined, but…
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Peace brings local community together
Categories: Uncategorized“Regardless of our perspectives on ‘just war’ and pacifism, as Christians we are all united in our desire for peace and justice in our community and around the world,” says…
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