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The gene pool cards
Categories: Viewpoints“In your 50s, you find out what ‘cards’ you got in the gene pool,” I’ve heard it said. In the past year, this truism took on personal meaning. Unusual chest…
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Everything we need
Categories: Viewpoints“Pay now . . . or really pay later.” This recent Winnipeg Free Press headline pointed to the close relationship between investing in education and healthcare for the very young,…
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Readers write: Jan. 6, 2014 issue
Categories: ViewpointsDaughter of Pembina Place resident disputes ‘quality of care’ comment Re: “Bethania Group dismisses CEO,” Oct. 14, 2013, page 23. I read with interest the article outlining steps Bethania and…
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For discussion: ‘Sounding the Scriptures’
Categories: Feature Articles1. In what setting have you heard someone “sound the Scripture,” telling a Bible story without reading it? How is re-telling a story different from reading it or repeating it…
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‘Sounding the Scriptures’
Categories: Feature ArticlesManaging editor Ross W. Muir was introduced to biblical storytelling when John Epp, a member of the Network of Biblical Storytellers Canada and Toronto United Mennonite Church, visited First Mennonite Church…
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Priority issues for 2014
Categories: EditorialWhat will the issues be for Canadians in 2014, my American friend asked me over the Christmas break. A good but difficult question, I said to myself—a query worth sharing…
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A Prayer in Spoken Word for Joy Advent: Isaiah 35
Pt. I – Anticipation Behold! This is the season of waiting. We mirror And remember the shadows and hints of prophetic words That were actualized in the birth and life…
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Icons and Incarnation
We Mennonites hail from a rather iconoclastic tradition, but Christmas seems to be a partial exception to this. You see, this is a time of year when many of us…
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COMMENTARY: The Christmas Wars are over, and Christmas won
Categories: Web FirstIf there is indeed a "War on Christmas," those on the anti-Christmas side of the war have lost — big time. The television pundits, conservative politicians and talk-radio loudmouths who…
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Mennonites “do” Advent
Categories: Web FirstTraditionally Mennonite worship did not acknowledge the nuances of the church year. Today more congregations and individuals are seeing the seasons of the church calendar as a time to reflect…
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South Africa mourns Mandela, a man of many names
Categories: Web FirstSouth Africa lost the “Father of the nation” and the world lost an icon when Nelson Mandela passed away Dec. 5, 2013. There is a hush in the air and…
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Mandela as Messiah
Categories: Web FirstThe world seemed very different when I awoke last Friday morning and heard the news: “Mandela is dead.” I first heard about it in an e-mail from a friend in…
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“Buy Nothing” Christmas
Well, we’re already up to Third Advent, meaning Christmas is right around the corner. As the shops near my apartment have gotten busier and busier, I’ve been thinking about the…
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Ontario Mennonite community loses influential genealogist
Categories: Web FirstLorraine Roth, a well-known Mennonite genealogist, passed away early on Wed. Dec. 11, 2013, at the age of 83. She grew up near Shakespeare, Ont., and spent her last years…
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CPT extends offer of peace
Categories: Uncategorized“Jesus is not a pansy or a pacifist.” That’s what Mark Driscoll, pastor of the Mars Hill multi-venue mega-church conglomerate, said in its The Resurgence magazine recently. The article went…
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Daily guide for A Year of Reading Biblically: Part I
Categories: UncategorizedYoung Voices co-editor Aaron Epp is reading through in Bible in 2014. This is his plan. Read more about this project at A Year of Reading Biblically and join him…
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A Year of Reading Biblically starts now
Categories: UncategorizedWhy read the Bible? I posed that question on Facebook last month. More than 20 friends, including Christians, agnostics and atheists, responded. Some responses were snarky, most were serious and…
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Challenging facile conclusions
Categories: ArtbeatLogan Mehl-Laituri, a veteran of the war in Iraq, has written a new book, For God and Country (In That Order): Faith and Service for Ordinary Radicals, the first book…
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From opera to open spaces
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Terry and Monique Mierau moved to rural Manitoba in 2011 with their three young children, they had, for the most part, stopped singing. The former opera singers, professionally trained…
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Heinz closure shocks community
Categories: UncategorizedAfter being an integral part of the town of Leamington for more than a century, the HJ Heinz Corporation will shut its processing plant next June, putting 740 employees out…
