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COMMENTARY: Learning to love complexity
Categories: ViewpointsTumult in Egypt reminds me how complicated the world can be, especially for a culture like our own that is shaped by good guy vs. bad guy dramas. Who are…
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Ex-president Morsi
Categories: Web FirstOn the first anniversary of his inauguration as Egypt’s first ever elected president Mohamed Morsi found himself facing demonstrations, unprecedented in size, demanding his dismissal. At times it felt as…
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Canadian-owned mine must be closed, says archbishop
Categories: Web FirstThe Archbishop of San Salvador is calling for international support in shutting down a Canadian-owned gold mine just across the border in Guatemala. Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas told his…
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‘Mimicking maternal gestures’
Categories: UncategorizedAs a Ph.D. student studying Mennonite history, Susie Fisher Stoesz finds it hard sometimes to explain to her family what exactly she does when she goes to her office at…
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Grebel student donations help Somali refugee graduate
Categories: UncategorizedSaida Sheikh, a Somali young woman who fled to a refugee camp in northwest Kenya when she was just nine years old, is one of two initial graduates of a…
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More than just a fan
Categories: UncategorizedOn any given summer day, you will find 22-year-old David Leitch at Investors Group Field receiving passes from the Winnipeg Blue Bomber quarterbacks, joking around with coaches or even giving…
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A new low for Hollywood
Categories: ArtbeatLate in this summer’s first blockbuster film, Man of Steel, Superman declares, “I’m as American as it gets!” Truer words were never spoken. But when the overt underlying message of…
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Diverse voices speak out
Categories: ArtbeatIn recognition of National Aboriginal Day in Canada, on June 21, 2013, Herald Press released Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice and Life Together, a new book…
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Henry Engbrecht awarded honorary doctorate
Categories: Uncategorized“It was an amazing time when I think back,” says Henry Engbrecht. “How could I be so lucky to grow up in that experience?”
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A different perspective on Alberta’s Oil Patch
Categories: UncategorizedOil sands or tar sands? The economy or the environment? The issues are divisive. How can the Mennonite church helpfully engage them constructively?
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Running on fumes
Categories: Uncategorized“An excellent car, but little fuel.” This is how treasurer Ernst Bergen described the situation currently facing Mennonite World Conference (MWC) when the Executive Committee met in Akron in late…
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Old Order Mennonite community in turmoil
Categories: UncategorizedA group of Old Order Mennonite families who moved from southern Ontario to rural Manitoba just over six years ago, to escape the encroachments of society, have run headlong into…
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New wave of homesteaders embody the Spirit
Categories: ViewpointsThe best part of growing up in a close-knit church community is the sense that people who are not your relatives become your extended family. At Sherbrooke Mennonite Church in…
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Don’t go or don’t eat?
Categories: ViewpointsThe end of our kids’ sporting seasons brings about the obligatory team party. As a parent, such events feel a bit like a high school reunion. Most of us are…
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A faith in jeopardy?
Categories: ViewpointsRecent Canadian statistics reveal that as many as half of first nations children and about a third of immigrant children live below the poverty line. How is it possible that…
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsMetzger’s servant leadership should be applauded, not criticized
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Ministry in a very different world
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn 2009, when Dave and Margaret Penner first went to work among Low German-speaking Mennonites in Mexico, they encountered a “vacuum.”
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The trouble with labels
Categories: EditorialIn an increasingly polarized culture, we seem to be plagued more and more with labels that define us. Driven by an obsession to organize our society, we put each other…
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My Most ‘Precious Gift’
A couple of months ago I read a post that had been shared around among some of my Facebook friends. It told the story of a bride-to-be, just moments before…
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Becoming mothers of God
You might have noticed that my blog posts have been somewhat sporadic over the past months. I do have a reason: my husband and I just had our first child…
