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Kelowna church sells property and moves
Categories: NewsMembers of Kelowna First Mennonite Church are selling their church building, but that doesn’t mean they are closing their doors. As of May, the small congregation is meeting in a…
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CPT receives International Peace Award
Categories: NewsCommunity Peacemaker Teams (CPT) was awarded the International Peace Award by the Community of Christ Church and the Shaw Family Foundation on April 22 during the church’s international conference. Honouring…
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Online church in 2023
Categories: NewsFrom households clustered around computer screens to sanctuaries filled with people, church services have taken a variety of forms since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic more than three years…
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Ottawa group uses unique fundraising method
Categories: NewsFor more than 20 years, a refugee support group at Ottawa Mennonite Church has used an unusual fundraising method that has allowed it to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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Readers write: May 5, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionReader finds assurance in the Holy Spirit’s presence Troy Watson has exposed us to the topic of the Holy Spirit among us as believers, in his April 7 column, “Many…
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‘Camp shapes people’
Categories: OpinionI am looking ahead to my last summer as associate program director of Mennonite Church Manitoba’s Camps with Meaning (CwM) program; my last summer spent travelling to and from Assiniboia…
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Pauingassi Trading Post
Categories: OpinionThis picture is of the Pauingassi Trading Post, located 276 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg and 16 km from the Manitoba and Ontario border. Mission worker Henry Neufeld brought a request…
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Talking more about power
Categories: OpinionIt was Easter Sunday, and after the sun came up over the horizon during our congregational sunrise service, we all tramped inside to share an amazing potluck breakfast spread. My…
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Darkness and light in worship
Categories: OpinionWhen Sarah Kathleen Johnson was an undergraduate student at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ont., she wrote a hymn text based on Psalm 139. More than a decade later,…
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Extending grace instead of labelling enemies
Categories: OpinionAccording to a recent Wall Street Journal-Norc poll, the smallest percentage of Americans (12 percent) said they were “very happy” since 1972. These “very happy” people share a number of…
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Revisiting intentionality
Categories: OpinionOnce upon a time, there was a belief in the Canadian Mennonite church that if it welcomed new people of colour, immigrants and refugees, these newcomers would eventually join and…
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A centuries-old offer of peace
Categories: EditorialDuring the Papal visit to Canada in the summer of 2022, observers and news-watchers likely caught glimpses of banners and heard chants to reject or repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery.…
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An assumption of grace
Categories: Feature ArticlesAfter the Vatican’s recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, I spent two hours speaking with three Indigenous people about the 500-year-old church doctrine that is as much the bedrock…
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Readers write: April 21, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionThe religion of peace The week the F-35 fighter jet was on the cover (Jan. 30), I had pulled an antique book of sermons off the shelf that my wife…
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Jesus and the 4 Cs
Categories: OpinionHave you ever heard of the 4 Cs? In education, the 4 Cs refer to 21st century learning skills including critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating and collaborating. In my role…
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Bernhard Schellenberg
Categories: OpinionIn 2023, the Mennonite Heritage Archives celebrates 90 years of service to the Mennonite community. It can trace its roots to the Conference of Mennonites in Canada’s annual sessions held…
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‘An old nose’
Categories: OpinionA recent weekend was exhausting, delightful, enlightening, hilarious, touching . . . and exhausting. The stars lined up in such a way that we kept our youngest grandchild, seven-year-old Jaxon,…
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Dandelions for the Gospel
Categories: OpinionA dandelion tattoo festoons my left forearm, a puffball ready to launch its wispy seeds. Asked to speak at one of our congregations one Sunday, I intended to start the…
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What more could I want?
Categories: Opinion“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). Despite regular self-reminders of my abundance, I want. Despite the ongoing conversations with my children about our relative wealth,…
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School’s out
Categories: NewsHundreds of students are preparing to graduate this month from post-secondary institutions supported by Mennonite Church Canada and its regional churches. Canadian Mennonite spoke with five students about their experiences…
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