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‘Confessing the peace of Jesus in a terroristic world’
Categories: UncategorizedAugust 2014 As a team we teach about Christian/Muslim relations in North America and around the world. When the response time comes we can always expect questions about Islamist terrorism.…
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‘Confessing the peace of Jesus in a terroristic world’
Categories: UncategorizedAugust 2014 As a team we teach about Christian/Muslim relations in North America and around the world. When the response time comes we can always expect questions about Islamist terrorism.…
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Responding to terrorism: a Christ-centred approach
Categories: Uncategorized“Are Muslims trying to take over America?” “Who are the ‘true Muslims’—the peaceful ones or the violent ones?” “How should Christians respond to jihadi Muslims?” “Isn’t force the only effective…
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Counting conversations, not conversions
Categories: UncategorizedClerical collars and hijabs, men and women, black and white, the diversity in the crowd of more than 200 was clearly visible. Just as obvious, however, was the palpable presence…
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Reading the Bible with Jesus . . . and Bryan
Categories: UncategorizedBryan Moyer Suderman (SmallTallMusic.com) sees his music work over the past 11 years as an outgrowth of his desire to have Scripture alive in the church. He has been active…
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Niska beadwork stitches relationships together
Categories: ArtbeatThe Niska Artisans cooperative, operating for the past seven years in Timmins, Ont., launched a beadwork display at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario complex at 50 Kent Avenue in…
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RJC welcomes new personnel and shuttle service
Categories: UncategorizedIn addition to new students, Rosthern Junior College began its 2014-15 school year with two new deans. Lisa Isaak, a 2006 graduate of the school, with a psychology degree from…
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Generational Shift at Conrad Grebel University College
Categories: UncategorizedIf anyone has been keeping track, Conrad Grebel University College is going through a generational shift in faculty and staff. This spring saw the retirements of James Pankratz as academic…
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Be the hands and feet of Jesus for a week
Categories: UncategorizedWhat good can a stranger with no construction skills do in a disaster zone in a week? Quite a bit, it turns out. While in high school I had the…
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MWC responds to appeal from Middle East churches
Categories: Web FirstIn response to urgent appeals from the Supreme Council of the Evangelical Community in Syria and Lebanon and from the Middle East Council of Churches, Mennonite World Conference issued a call for…
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Mennonite Church Canada releases BFC video with seminary professor
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada has added a new resource to the list of documents for study and discussion in the Being a Faithful Church (BFC) process. The BFC Task Force asked…
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Spring rolls and wedding cake
Categories: UncategorizedPeter Nguyen and Kim Bui received an anniversary gift on August 10 that they never got at their wedding 40 years ago: a church ceremony with a marriage licence. The…
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Reflection
It's been quite a while since I have posted here. This September is the least busy that I have been in a long time, and I intend to take some…
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Hearing the music of the open road
Categories: UncategorizedOn their 20-day cycling trip from Bemidji, Minn., to Waterloo, Ont., earlier this year, Jami Reimer and Thomas Krause heard the chorus of bullfrogs, birds and rushing water. These melodies…
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Engagement, debate and building relationships
Categories: UncategorizedThis past May, I was part of a group of 10 students from Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., that travelled to Iran to…
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Where are we headed?
Categories: EditorialIt is almost a cliché to say that the church is in the middle of mind-numbing changes, nearing a revolutionary scale. Anglican Bishop Mark Dyer calls the situation a “giant…
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For discussion: Are we one?
Categories: Feature Articles1. What is the relationship of the various Christian denominations in your community? Are there formal contacts between congregations? In what settings do the denominations work together? 2. What does…
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Are we one?
Categories: Feature ArticlesJesus’ Farewell Discourse, as recorded in John 14 to 17, is full of images of who Jesus is. These four chapters present Jesus as a shepherd; a gate; and the…
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Readers write: September 15, 2014 issue
Categories: ViewpointsChurch needs to learn to ask the ‘right questions’ I wasn’t at Assembly 2014, so I enjoyed reading the summaries in the July 28 edition (pages 4 to 17) and…
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Camp is only the beginning
Categories: ViewpointsIs it camp that needs its staff or is it the staff that need camp? Time and time again I have heard teens tell their faith story by beginning with,…
