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Readers write: Nov. 25, 2013 issue
Categories: ViewpointsBefore progressing, we need to know our starting point Re: "What’s ahead" editorial, Oct. 14, page 2. Dick Benner is right to suggest that our "anchor" is the Corinthian passage…
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Still believe in peace?
Categories: EditorialIt’s Remembrance Day as I write this. To say that Canadian Mennonites are conflicted on this day is an understatement. How do we respond in a culture that, even in…
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Imagine!
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn Charles Dickens' well-known story, A Christmas Carol, anyone who dares enter the inner sanctum of Ebenezer Scrooge's office with so much as a suggestion of Christmas is greeted with…
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For discussion: Imagine!
Categories: Feature Articles1. Do you know anyone with a “Bah! Humbug! ” attitude towards Christmas? What makes you want to say “Bah! Humbug! ”? Where do you draw the line on sentimentalism?…
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Photo story: Indigenous leaders visit England
Categories: Web FirstTo mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (Oct. 7), a delegation of indigenous leaders travelled to London, England, in October 2013. The group was organized by…
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Filipino Climate Negotiator Issues Challenges to World
Categories: Web First“We refuse to accept that running away from storms, evacuating our families, suffering the devastation and misery, counting our dead, becomes a way of life. We simply refuse to.” So…
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Mennonites respond to Typhoon Haiyan
Categories: Web FirstIn the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, disaster relief efforts are underway to help with cleanup and reconstruction. Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada) is advising donors to make…
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Young adults learn through cross-cultural experience
Categories: Web FirstAmong the many memories that Shammah Nakawesi of Uganda brings home from her one-year service assignment in Indonesia is her new understanding of loving God and others. “Even in the…
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Kristallnacht anniversary with interfaith service
Categories: Web FirstAt an emotional worship service, considered one of the largest gatherings of Christians and Jews, some 1,600 British men and women filed into Westminster Abbey Sunday (Nov. 10) to mark…
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On raising a son
A few weeks ago, my little family (my husband, my baby son, and I) celebrated parent/child dedication along with our church community. Though it’s obviously a different sort of event…
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Mennonites take to social media to share peace
Categories: Web FirstFor the last 20 years people have shared the message of peace by pinning red buttons reading, “To remember is to work for peace” to their shirts, coats, backpacks and…
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“Pastoral letter” from friends in the UK
Categories: Web FirstIn this post I share a “pastoral letter” from Anabaptists in the United Kingdom who are praying for us. Alan Kreider notes this in introductory comments to the letter: The…
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The goal of dialogue
Categories: UncategorizedWhen I grew up in a conservative, non-denominational church, the issue of homosexuality was never discussed, but it was regarded as “sin.” It was not until a friend came out…
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Music therapists help clients realize their potential
Categories: UncategorizedThe choirs, bands and performers at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) produce some of the most beautiful music around, but a few graduates are using music to help people achieve non-musical…
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My faithful God and bleeding brain
Categories: UncategorizedI remember coming home the day my brain started bleeding. I had worked the morning shift that Friday and was pulling into my driveway when the spots in my eyes…
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A choir that creates community
Categories: UncategorizedA choir truly is a community-building venture. Something happens to people when they sing together. They bond, becoming part of something bigger than themselves. Menno Singers, a part of the…
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Gasping for air . . . and for God
Categories: Artbeat“Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission,” says Matt Kowalski as he dances circles around the space shuttle Explorer, which is in orbit around the Earth. His words…
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Making a splash in the glittering world
Categories: ArtbeatBorn into a plain-dressing, plain-speaking Mennonite farm family in Lancaster County, Pa., Shirley Hershey Showalter was named after Shirley Temple, a movie star she was forbidden to watch. She writes…
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A bloody satisfying hassle
Categories: UncategorizedAll I knew about pig butchering before I did it myself was the Low German saying that translates as, “good weather for slaughtering pigs,” which somehow surfaces from my subconscious…
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A three-course meal of words
Categories: UncategorizedThe pleasure and fellowship that comes with food and eating seems increasingly flavoured with controversy and confusion. Controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pesticide usage and farming practices has left…
