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For kids too!
Categories: ViewpointsAs the mother of two boys aged 6 and 11, I am happy to see the wide variety of faith-shaping resources for parents of young children available from Mennonite Church…
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‘The truth was hard’
Categories: UncategorizedI was standing beside Neill Von Gunten, former co-director of Mennonite Church Canada Native Ministries, and trying to peer over heads to see into the “Churches Listening Area” at the…
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Anabaptist church leaders offer statement to residential school survivors
Categories: UncategorizedThe following statement was presented at the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Edmonton in March. We are leaders of a group of Canadian Christian churches known as Anabaptist…
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‘A foolish act of love’
Categories: UncategorizedBecause Jesus asked us to love our neighbours, a group of Christians from Winnipeg were willing to walk 550 kilometres to honour and remember their indigenous brothers and sisters who…
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A modest proposal for truth, reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is in the closing stretch of its five-year mandate. The most important truth being conveyed is the experience of former Indian Residential School (IRS)…
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Truth and reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedGathering crowd surges Finding space Residential School survivors And listeners This is my time You listen Throbbing drum beats Pulsing loudly Tonal language singing Prayers lifting Bowed shoulders quake Remembering…
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‘Four-directional thinking’ on indigenous-settler relations
Categories: UncategorizedIf a buffalo shouts or a salmon cries in a forest, does anybody hear? A packed room of 50 people at the Toronto School of Theology (TST) hung on every…
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Unlocking a mystery
Categories: ArtbeatIn 2010 Todd Burpo, a Wesleyan pastor from Nebraska, told the “astounding story” of his four-year-old son Colton’s “trip to heaven and back.” Heaven is for Real (Thomas Nelson Publishers)…
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Menno maids help families survive
Categories: UncategorizedSome of the earliest Mennonites to live in large cities in Canada were young women who went to work as domestics in upper-class homes. Before the 1920s, Mennonites were farmers…
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MCC from a Western Canada perspective
Categories: UncategorizedIn her history of the first 50 years of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada, Esther Epp-Tiessen repeatedly defends the decision to create a separate Canadian MCC, distinct from the older…
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Spring 2014 List of Books & Resources
Categories: UncategorizedTheology, Spirituality Discerning God’s Will Together: Biblical Interpretation in the Free Church Tradition. Ervin R. Stutzman. Cascadia Publishing House, 2013, 175 pages. Stutzman explores the practical implications of discernment in…
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Translation breathes new life into old history
Categories: Uncategorized“This book launch is 141 years late,” quipped historian Walter Klaassen. He was referring to the recent event celebrating the translation of his great-grandfather’s book, History of the Defenceless Anabaptist…
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Peace walk focuses on the impact of oil
Categories: Web FirstOn a sunny morning, to the sound of Canada geese and in view of the flowing Grand River, a group of adults and children (and one dog) took part in…
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American Mennonites attended past TRC event
Categories: Web FirstIn the fall of 2013 a Mennonite delegation of six Americans and Canadians went to Vancouver, B.C., for a Truth and Reconciliation event. They joined representatives of Indigenous and settler…
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Who is blind?
Categories: Web FirstJohn 9 tells a story of blindness and sight. With the exception of Jesus, all the characters in this story are blind in some way. Blind disciples: ignorance and prejudice…
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One thing lacking
Categories: Web FirstI had a great idea for starting this sermon—a PowerPoint presentation of artists’ depictions of this Bible story. I could imagine the paintings: a man in beautiful robes running and…
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UPCOMING: Pax Christi Chorale debuts new composition
Categories: Web FirstThe 2013/14 season of the Pax Christi Chorale will close with a premiere public performance of a new Easter piece by Stephanie Martin, “Now the Queen of Seasons.” This composition…
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Is support for Israel waning among evangelicals?
Categories: Web FirstAmerican evangelicals have played a significant role in U.S. support for Israel; by some measures they are even more supportive than American Jews. But in the spring issue of Middle…
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This Easter. . .
This Easter is going to be different. I probably sound hypocritical stating how uncomfortable I am talking about death in one post and then writing about that very topic in…
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Mary at the Foot of the Cross
As we experience another Holy Week leading up to Easter, I’m thinking of Mary, the mother of Jesus. I know, she’s not the first biblical figure who comes to mind…
