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Drug cartel teams with Mexican Mennonites to move pot to Colorado
Categories: Web FirstA federal grand jury has indicted seven people, most members of a Mexican Mennonite community working with a drug cartel, accused of moving tons of pot to Colorado Springs and…
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Eating less, moving more
Categories: Uncategorized“To love our neighbours as we love ourselves means also to love ourselves as we love our neighbours. It means to treat ourselves with as much kindness and understanding as…
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The least of these . . . even more so
Categories: UncategorizedIn Dieudonne’s small apartment in Altona, Man., there is a colourful menagerie of crocheted animals: elephants, frogs and cats. He sells them for $15 each because crocheting is one of…
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Is ‘Just War’ doctrine another victim of the Syrian conflict?
Categories: ViewpointsEven as the world’s powers grasped for a last-minute resolution to the crisis in Syria, it remained an open question whether any amount of diplomacy could prevent the conflict from…
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Fifty Shades of Grace offers counterpoint to best-selling novel
Categories: ArtbeatA smoke-filled hookah bar in Syria. A tense meeting with Israeli soldiers on a “Jesus Walk” in Nazareth. A classroom in the deep south of the U.S. in the 1970s.…
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War Requiem to cap off peace conference
Categories: ArtbeatAt a time when the world is once again gearing up for war, its horrors will be dramatized and brought home in Waterloo Region through an annual three-day international peace…
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Born at the border
Categories: UncategorizedOmar Alawasaje’s story of being invited by his Canadian sponsors to “go camping,” and his immediate and reactive response of “No!” led to general laughter in the group gathered at…
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B.C. church takes VBS to Guatemala
Categories: UncategorizedAn ongoing discipleship and partnership program with a Guatemalan congregation led a team of 12 from Cedar Valley Mennonite Church in Mission, B.C., to travel to the Central American country…
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A golden weekend for Grebel’s 50th
Categories: UncategorizedConrad Grebel University College celebrated an anniversary last month that many in the Mennonite world thought would never happen.
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Music festival brings Mennos together
Categories: UncategorizedIt was the perfect way to spend a summer afternoon on the Prairies. Saskatchewan Mennonites gathered in a park near Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Aug. 18 to…
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Miracles of love and care
Categories: ViewpointsNo matter what language you speak, romantic love is one of the greatest gifts to give or receive. When it’s new, it’s fireworks, warm fuzzies, pure electricity! As you mature,…
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How a bicycle can be a sacrament
Categories: ViewpointsI have what may appear to be an irrational aversion to cars. When you are desperate to find hope for the future, it’s easy to turn to something near at…
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Our unchecked blind spot
Categories: ViewpointsThe average Canadian child is among the most blessed, nurtured—and entitled—in the world. Imagine if such a child announced it has decided to leave the family because it just isn’t…
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Building on existing energy
Categories: ViewpointsWith only 15 congregations, Mennonite Church Alberta is a small area church. What I find significant is that only 10 of our churches are of traditional European origin. We need…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. What have been your experiences with the Roman Catholic Church? Do Mennonites today still have the same suspicions about Catholic theology that Will Braun says he grew up with?…
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Holy contradictions
Categories: Feature ArticlesDespite gaping holes in the biblical basis for its elaborate hierarchy, and despite relatively widespread pedophilia among its priests, the Roman Catholic Church holds on to roughly twice as many…
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A magazine is born
Categories: EditorialThe year was 1953. Mennonites scattered across Canada were a disparate group, having come to this land of freedom in several migrations from Europe, the first of which was of…
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Looming surge in vacant United Church buildings
Categories: Web FirstThe United Church Observer, an award-winning independent monthly magazine published for the country’s largest Protestant denomination, is revealing the results of “Imagine: Your Church in 2025.” The national survey asked…
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Persecuted Coptic Christians still hopeful
Categories: Web FirstFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams took Britain’s Christian community to task last month when he said that Western Christians need to “grow up” and stop claiming they are persecuted…
