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Mennonites celebrate their global church
Categories: NewsB.C. Mennonites enjoyed a global experience on March 25 while gathering for Renewal 2023, a Mennonite World Conference (MWC) event with the theme of “Jesus Christ, our hope.” The event,…
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Windsor churches support downtown drug clinic
Categories: NewsRielly McLaren has seen first hand the effects of the opioid crisis in his community and his congregation. The pastor of Windsor Mennonite Fellowship, a small urban church near the…
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Are we too progressive for our own good?
Categories: Past EventsThis is a recording of a webinar that Canadian Mennonite hosted on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Titled “Are we too progressive for our own good?” the webinar is hosted by…
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A story of war, immigration and connection
Categories: NewsLike a garden maze with various starting points, the story of how I became connected to the Mennonite community is the sum of several individual stories that all led to…
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No shortcut to Easter
Categories: EditorialIt’s not easy to come up with fresh, new material for Easter, so we dug up something nearly 500 years old instead. We’re putting the “Menno” in Canadian Mennonite, literally—the…
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The spiritual resurrection
Categories: Feature ArticlesReading words written nearly 500 years ago and translated nearly 70 years ago takes some effort, especially when the message is that death precedes resurrection. We trust the Spirit will…
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Easter reflections
Categories: Feature ArticlesWe asked 10 people for their most meaningful Easter memory, or an image that best captures the essence of Easter, or what Easter makes them wonder. Holy Week turtle soup…
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Readers write: March 24, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionAlvin Baroro On page 6 of the Feb. 13 issue is a picture mentioning two people’s names and identifying another as “an Indigenous coffee grower.” Please do better than that…
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What is a Mennonite?
Categories: OpinionLast month I was sleeping in my hotel in Vietnam when loud karaoke music started playing outside. The music was so loud that I thought my window was open, so…
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Gilbert Snider
Categories: OpinionGilbert Snider stokes his wood-fed, maple-syrup evaporator in rural Waterloo County in 1954. The photographer, David L. Hunsberger, took many photos of working life in Ontario’s Waterloo Region. How much…
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Gentleness behind bars
Categories: OpinionOn Thursday mornings, I drive an hour north to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, a federal institution in Prince Albert. I am escorted through the belly of the beast to the chapel…
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Chickadee as sacrament
Categories: OpinionNormally I hearken closely to the words of Jesus. But although he advises that we consider the sparrows of the field, I’d rather pay attention to chickadees. Being commonplace seems…
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Within a shadow of doubt
Categories: OpinionI have so inextricably linked Psalm 22 to the words of Jesus on the cross that I don’t think I have ever really read the Psalm in its own light…
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Ten insights from CM’s latest online event
Categories: Opinion“Are we too progressive for our own good?” That was the title of an online panel discussion Canadian Mennonite hosted on March 8. More than 70 people tuned in to…
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Transitions abound at MC Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions
Categories: NewsDavid Boshart, president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind., encouraged Mennonite Church Saskatchewan participants at this year’s annual delegate sessions (ADS) to hold on to a hopeful perspective,…
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Vietnam church strong, dynamic
Categories: NewsWith 100,000 members, the Mennonite church in Vietnam is going strong, reports Nhien Pham. The retired pastor, who came to Canada from Vietnam in 1976, returned to his home country…
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MC Manitoba re-imagines church together at annual gathering
Categories: NewsThe buzz of conversation and singing was a welcome sound as people filled Douglas Mennonite Church in Winnipeg for Mennonite Church Manitoba’s first in-person gathering in three years. This year’s…
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Journey from pastor to politician
Categories: NewsCaleb Ratzlaff has always had an interest in theology and politics. After spending time in seminary, he ultimately decided to complete a master’s degree in political philosophy at the Institute…
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On a journey with Jesus
Categories: NewsWhen Colin McCartney of Connect City, a church-planting ministry in Toronto, came to Leamington last month, members of five local congregations in Essex County were taken on a journey from…
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CMU student finds her place as composer
Categories: NewsWith choral singing back in full swing, its community-building capacity is even more obvious to composer and Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student Anna Schwartz. After writing the song “Answers” at…
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