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Do you know you know God?
Categories: ViewpointsHow do you know if you know someone? To answer that, consider what it’s like to shop for a birthday present with little kids. They see a gift not through…
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My environmentalism is my spiritual ethic
Categories: ViewpointsA couple weeks ago I participated in an e-mail conversation with two friends about justifying the choice to have children in the wake of the earth’s environmental crisis. I know.…
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Ways we warm each other’s hearts
Categories: ViewpointsOn July 4, following the Mennonite Women Canada annual business meeting in Winnipeg, more than 80 women gathered for a program of choral music and inspirational talks by three Manitoba…
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Changes coming to MC Manitoba
Categories: UncategorizedMuch time and energy at the Mennonite Church Manitoba office was directed this summer to helping host the MC Canada general assembly and Native Assembly 2014. With these two significant…
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‘People can do this’
Categories: UncategorizedFriends would apologize for throwing things out when they visited. People posted nasty notes on the CBC and CTV websites in response to “the challenge.” But Matthew and Stacey Vandermeer…
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Small town + small church = big influence
Categories: UncategorizedChurch of the Way in Granisle, British Columbia, may be small, but as the only church in town its witness in the community is large. Located on Babine Lake in…
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‘An energizing event’
Categories: UncategorizedIt only took a few seconds for Ron Janzen to catch his breath as he dismounted his bicycle and entered the Carman Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Thrift Shop to greet…
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A good Mennonite?
Categories: Uncategorized“I’m not a very good Mennonite,” says Ruth Klahsen as she sells her Monforte cheeses at the New Hamburg (Ont.) Mennonite Relief Sale, where all sales go to support Mennonite…
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Finding a sense of place
Categories: ArtbeatChurches should be rooted in neighbourhoods or parishes. That’s the claim of the authors, who represent Pentecostal, Anabaptist and Reformed traditions. Our lives and churches are fragmented, and many Sunday…
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Why a John Howard Yoder Digital Library?
Categories: Web FirstThe recent announcement of the completion of the John Howard Yoder Digital Library, a collaborative project undertaken by the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Library, the Mennonite Church USA Archives, and…
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Learning to be good neighbours in Nigeria
Categories: Web FirstMore than 250 Bible school leaders met for “life-changing” seminars on building relationships with Muslims during the Africa Association of Bible Schools (AABS) annual two-day conference in Port Harcourt, Nigeria,…
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Boko Haram takes aim at churches in northeast Nigeria
Categories: Web FirstFive months after Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in Nigeria’s Borno State, the Islamic extremist group has begun occupying churches in the country’s northeastern region, church officials there…
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MLK’s daughter seeks nonviolent Ferguson response
Categories: Web FirstThe youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leaned toward the 30 students facing her inside the library at Riverview Gardens High School on Aug. 26. Many of…
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Marching for justice
In his famous address at 1984 Mennonite World Conference, in Strasbourg, France, Ron Sider described shalom as “being in right relationship with God, neighbor and the earth.” Shalom, he said,…
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On bedtime prayers
I’ve recently started the practice of praying with my one-year-old son before bed. We’ve had mealtime prayers going for a while now, usually in the form of a song, and…
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Uncomfortably evangelized
Categories: UncategorizedI used to think I’d be flattered if evangelists targeted me. When someone tried to convert me to their belief system, I would surely see it as a selfless act…
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More viewpoints: Differently gifted
Categories: Web FirstIn “Differently gifted,” Will Braun discusses the high emotional stakes related to the closure of facilities for people with intellectual disabilities. Here are more items he collected. The Freedom Tour…
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Differently gifted
Categories: Feature Articles"I don't want to remember it,” Hugo Unruh says of the grim spring day in 1972. He and his wife at the time, pulled into the 40-hectare complex an hour…
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Good Work
Categories: Feature ArticlesBeige cement walls intersect with light green shag carpet. The smell of sugar and over-brewed yet weak coffee mingles with bits of conversation and the clink of spoons on ceramic…
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Creating child-friendly worship
Categories: ViewpointsAs your advocate for children in the life of the church, I continually encourage others to offer child-friendly worship services. Assembly 2014 worship planners offered a fine example of doing…
