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This Weekend: Ex-Mennonite/Near Mennonite FREE Conference
Hello fellow Mennonites, near Mennonites, and perhaps even ex-Mennonites. I just want to take a quick to highlight an event going on this weekend in Winnipeg — it sounds like…
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Can kids with Down syndrome have friends?
Categories: Web FirstNearly nine years ago, I lay in a hospital bed with a sleeping baby in my arms, engulfed by fear. Mine wasn’t the typical anxiety of new mothers. We had…
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UPCOMING: Olympic speed skater Cindy Klassen to take part in Ontario events
Categories: Web FirstCindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater, Olympic and world champion, is scheduled to participate in Mennonite-sponsored events in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. region. On Oct. 4, 2014, Klassen will join “Team MCC”…
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#Brag-worthy
Jesus said, “So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they…
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Embracing Dustness
I've been thinking a lot about what I've been studying in the last year, including a biography of Gandhi. It has left me with some interesting reflections on dust, truth…
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CMU Farmers Market TODAY
The CMU Farmers Market is TODAY folks! We've got 28 vendors lined up, a toonie lunch (farmer sausage on a bun) to offer, and a forecast of sunshiney goodness. Also,…
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Losing and gaining
September has been a whirlwind of change. It always is. One day we’re enjoying the lazy days of summer, when our mornings are spent park-hopping, lunches are always picnics, and…
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‘Where I live now’
Categories: UncategorizedKaren Allen is originally from Kempton Park, South Africa, near Johannesburg, but she currently lives in Winnipeg. Why on earth would she choose to live there, you ask? You aren’t…
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Mission: Impossible
Categories: UncategorizedAsk Winnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett what it was like shooting his most recent project in Kenya, and he responds with two words: “Very intense.” Plett, 29, travelled to the East…
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Growing up on MCC thrift stores
Categories: UncategorizedI have loved Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift stores since I was a kid. An essential part of my childhood revolved around a big, old “tickle trunk” filled with frilly…
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Sabbath II
Categories: EditorialIn a chapter on “Sabbath” in her book An Altar to the World, Barbara Brown Taylor confesses to “holy envy” of how the Jews practise the Sabbath, beginning with a…
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For discussion: Bearing the burden of memory pain
Categories: Feature Articles1. Henry Neufeld writes that, “[o]ur memories are prone to distortion.” Do you agree? Have you ever been faced with evidence that you remembered something inaccurately? Do your memories of…
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Bearing the burden of memory pain
Categories: Feature ArticlesWe all have some painful memories of things that happened to us. They are stored, encoded, and sometimes retrieved and reworked. There are strained relationships with our parents and siblings;…
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Readers write: September 29, 2014 issue
Categories: ViewpointsReader addresses what he believes are ‘inaccuracies’ Re: “From milk and honey to a land of rubble,” Aug. 18, page 4. There are a several inaccuracies in this article that…
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Bill’s dating advice for churches
Categories: ViewpointsIt’s disturbing that the “religious industrial complex” is cashing in on the desperation of many churches today. It’s common for struggling churches to look to more “successful” churches for the…
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Generosity is in the eye of the giver
Categories: Viewpoints“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light” (Matthew 6:22). Mrs. Potato Head understands the power…
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Purple hair
Categories: ViewpointsPerhaps it was inspiration from Jenny Joseph’s poem “Warning”: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.” When I first heard it decades ago, I didn’t imagine it…
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Sharing the faith
Categories: Viewpoints“Why don’t Mennonites believe in evangelism?” asked my breakfast partner. This was the question of the appointment. With small chat out of the way, the purpose of the invitation became…
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How do pastors keep the Sabbath?
Categories: Uncategorized“I would rather be out here thinking about God than in church thinking about paddling.” The slogan on Ric Driediger’s T-shirt bears witness to his preferred way of spending the…
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‘Each day was a joy’
Categories: UncategorizedAfter 27 years with Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), the last 12 as president and chief executive officer, Allan Sauder of Waterloo felt that he needed a professional development leave…
