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Being a Faithful Church process introduces online forum
Categories: UncategorizedThe Being a Faithful Church (BFC) Task Force is initiating opportunities for ongoing dialogue using Internet technology. The first online forum discussion is planned for Nov. 23 at noon Eastern…
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Church seeks to help Yoder sex abuse survivors
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Church Canada is discerning how best to respond to Canadian survivors of sexual abuse by theologian John Howard Yoder. Survivors of Yoder’s sexual abuse in the United States, which…
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Praising God through dance
Categories: ViewpointsYou’ve probably heard the joke: What is a Mennonite dilemma? Free dance lessons! I was born in Saskatchewan in 1949 and the only dancing I ever encountered was square-dancing on…
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10 things I really like about my church
Categories: Viewpoints1. We eat together a lot No surprise here. We are Mennonites. One of the tragedies of summer ending around here is that our summer worship schedule, which involved an…
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Eight points for a great sermon
Categories: ViewpointsBefore I list my recipe for a great sermon, I offer some context. I’m self-conscious about my social standing. I just bought a second house, a rental property in a…
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The wonder of scandalous grace
Categories: ViewpointsOn Thanksgiving Sunday our church celebrated the joy of baptism. It was a wonderful and diverse community event as we heard transforming stories of the young and middle-aged who had…
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A child shall lead them
Categories: ViewpointsI’ve heard it said, “The trouble with Christians in the western world is not that they don’t care about the poor. The trouble is that they don’t know the poor.”…
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Readers write: Nov. 11, 2013 issue
Categories: ViewpointsCatholics also display the love of Christ Re: “Holy contradictions,” Sept. 16, page 4. As Christians, we are often very prone to tip-toeing around difficult subjects. I appreciate the boldness…
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Reading list on atonement
Categories: Feature ArticlesAtonement, Justice and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church by Darrin Snyder Belousek. Eerdmans, 2012. Instead of Atonement: The Bible’s Salvation Story and our…
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Atonement metaphors/theories
Categories: Feature ArticlesChristus Victor/Ransom When humanity sinned in Genesis 3, they fell under the control of Satan. Due to personal sin, no human being was able to pay the ransom to free…
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Atonement
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn the 1990s, when the Mennonite church in Ontario was deciding whether to add Hymnal: A Worship Book to its pews, a dear (now departed) saint approached me, saying, “I…
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Glue and rough drafts
Categories: Editorial“Canadian Mennonite is the glue that holds Mennonite Church Canada together,” Larry Cornies, a journalism professor and former chair of this publication’s board of directors, told our staff and regional…
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MCC taps memories of Teachers Abroad Program
Categories: Web FirstForty years have passed since former Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker Nancy Heisey first stood in front of a classroom in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the…
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VIEWPOINT: Growing up Muslim in America, and dreaming of Halloween
Categories: ViewpointsGrowing up, we didn’t celebrate Halloween. While many Americans might have fond memories of strategic trick-or-treating and silly costumes on Halloween, my own memories involve going to great lengths to…
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Is it really possible to be salt and light? Part 2
This past summer, the worship theme at my church, Toronto United Mennonite, was about how the church is or can be salt and light, as per Jesus’ teaching in Matthew…
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Ellen Davis unearths an agrarian view of the Bible
Categories: Web FirstWith her gray hair tied neatly in a bun and her wire-rimmed glasses perched thoughtfully on her nose, Ellen Davis looks the part of a distinguished Bible scholar. Her…
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Discovering Cambodia
Before a couple years ago, I couldn’t pinpoint Cambodia on a map. I mean, generally I knew it was in Asia somewhere near Vietnam and Thailand. Really I didn’t have…
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Is it really possible to be salt and light? Part 1
This past summer, the worship theme at my church, Toronto United Mennonite, was about how the church is or can be salt and light, as per Jesus’ teaching in Matthew…
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The girl who had the accident
Categories: UncategorizedThe accident that came to shape Lisa’s life happened three months after her first birthday. She was run over by a car. “The front and back wheel went over my…
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Walking in pilgrim footsteps
Categories: UncategorizedThis past spring, I walked the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometre pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galacia in northwestern Spain. Tradition has it that the…
