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Peacebuilding as ‘God’s vocation’
Categories: UncategorizedPerspectives of peacebuilders, shedding light on how peace can be achieved in communities, societies and nations, were featured at a plenary session of the 10th assembly of the World Council…
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Another Canadian ‘TiM’
Categories: UncategorizedTiM has been launched in Western Canada—and this isn’t another story about a coffee franchise. Transitioning into Ministry (TiM) is Mennonite Church Canada’s new two-year online coaching program that connects…
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How the Grinch saved Christmas
Categories: ViewpointsNext to biblical nativity stories, How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss is one of my favourite seasonal tales. We read it as a family every Christmas Eve. While…
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Guadalupe: A story to heal a hemisphere
Categories: ViewpointsEvery Advent I recall December 2003 when I found myself swept along in the tide of pilgrims advancing toward one of the world’s most visited holy sites. The crowds were…
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Hope for a doubting disciple
Categories: ViewpointsWe just got back from a church lunch. Sitting at our table was our young family, a couple in their early 30s and three people in their senior years: a…
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The question the church needs to answer
Categories: ViewpointsEvery other Saturday evening the discipleship group our family participates in meets. Various ages, including a boatload of energetic children, gather to enjoy life together, be encouraged, and seek ways…
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Avoiding meaninglessness
Categories: ViewpointsWhat is the nature of the church today and the nature of the church to come? Will it continue to be important to organize our churches into denominational bodies or…
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Readers write: Dec. 16, 2013 issue
Categories: ViewpointsReader finds issue ‘disturbing’ Three items in the Oct. 28 “peacemaking” issue disturbed me: • I deplore that Dennis Gruending’s corrective of the Sept. 16 “Holy Contradiction” feature was made…
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For discussion: Discipleship as Citizenship
Categories: Feature Articles1. Do your Christian values make you feel like a resident alien in Canada? How strong are your ties of loyalty to Canada? How strong is your allegiance to your…
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Remembering and honouring ‘soldiers’ of Christ
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn Philippians 2:25-30, the Apostle Paul advises the violently besieged Christian community in Philippi to grant special “honours” to a “fellow-soldier” who has “risked his life” in service of Christ.…
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Discipleship as citizenship
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn the first 300 years of the Christian church, before church and state became fused, preachers and leaders regularly used the language of “citizenship” to describe the Christian community and…
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The angels’ song
Categories: Editorial“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to [all] on whom his favour rests” (Luke 2:14) will be read and re-read in our places of worship this…
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Storytelling used to teach peace
Categories: Web First“Peace Saturday,” a time of storytelling at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Nov. 9, 2013, featured four presenters with diverse points of view on the theme. Don Regier…
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Leamington businessman killed in Brazil
Categories: Web FirstA Leamington man has been killed in an attempted car-jacking on a highway in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian media reports say Dean Tiessen was travelling with a friend, Paul Carver,…
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Mennonites asked for Mandela’s release
Categories: Web FirstAs the world remembers Nelson Mandela today, Walter Bergen, an organic farmer from Chilliwack, BC, recalls a moment in July, 1986, when the Conference of Mennonites in Canada stepped forward…
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Christians lend a hand to West Bank farmers
Categories: Web FirstSitting in the shadow of a row of leafy grapevines, 26-year-old Zac Waller grabbed his guitar and started playing a hymn. The soulful sounds tripped down the hillside adjacent to…
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Francis creates commission to deal with sexual abuse
Categories: Web FirstPope Francis is creating a special commission to deal with the clergy sexual abuse crisis on a global scale, a step that comes amid growing criticism that Francis had not…
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The chalice that helped make possible the Iran nuclear deal
Categories: Web FirstMany paths led to the international agreement to temporarily curb Iran's nuclear program: secret meetings in Oman, formal negotiations in Geneva, and a quiet encounter in New York involving two…
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Prayers for a Peace Leader
In reading Nelson Mandela biography, as well as a book by Richard Stengel called 'Mandela's Way', I was inspired to write the prayer of a peace leader. This prayer is…
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Prosperity gospel televangelist dead at 79
Categories: Web FirstPaul Crouch, the religious broadcaster who co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network and was known for his prosperity gospel messages and lavish lifestyle, died Saturday (Nov. 30). He was 79. His death…
