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Temporary Housing for Flood Victims
Categories: Web FirstEditor’s Note: With our Alberta correspondent, Donita Wiebe-Neufeld, on sabbatical, we asked Rita Janzen to give a first person account as an update to after-flood conditions in High River. This is…
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Immigration flap over conscientious objection resolved peacefully
Categories: Web FirstA woman who has lived legally in this country (US) for more than 30 years was granted her request to become a naturalized United States citizen Thursday (June 20) after…
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GUEST COMMENTARY Apologies are too late when the damage is already done
Categories: ViewpointsAfter almost 40 years, Exodus International is closing its doors. It was the oldest Christian services group of its kind and a market leader in reparative/ex-gay/sexual orientation change therapy. It…
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Ryan Anderson’s uphill fight to change young minds on gay marriage
Categories: Web FirstRyan Anderson has planted himself on arguably the most unpopular stance for his generation: opposing gay marriage. At 31, Anderson has become one of the leading voices in the“millennial” generation…
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Ex-gay group Exodus International shuts down, president apologizes
Categories: Web FirstExodus International, a group that bills itself as “the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality,” announced late Wednesday (June 19) that it’s shutting its doors. Exodus’s…
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Arab Spring Adds to Global Restrictions on Religion
Categories: Web FirstA new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the already high level of restrictions on religion in the Middle East and North Africa – whether resulting from government policies or…
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Lutherans and Catholics bury the hatchet for Reformation’s 500th
Categories: Web FirstLutherans and Catholics have pledged to celebrate together the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, with both sides agreeing to set aside centuries of hostility and prejudice. The…
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Cancer Doesn’t Grow Faith
Two weeks ago, I attended the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event in Steinbach. As I watched my dad complete the Survivor’s Walk two and a half years after…
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Blue saris and shaved heads
Categories: UncategorizedLong, voluminous hair has long been regarded as an archetypal feminine trait. Anna-Marie Janzen, 25, currently has long curly blonde hair, but she won’t have it for much longer. On…
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Confessions of a gay Mennonite
Categories: UncategorizedIn addition to being smart, funny, politically conservative and an entrepreneur, Jude (a pseudonym) is also same-sex-oriented, a secret he has kept from his parents and most of his community.…
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Dispelling the myths of ‘microwave ministry’
Categories: UncategorizedIn North American society, where most people have been blessed with an abundance of resources, many see short-term missions as a way to use what we have to help others.…
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Christians say ‘I’m sorry’
Categories: Back PageFor the second year in a row, a group of Christians gathered in Winnipeg to say “I’m sorry.” They joined the crowds on the sidelines of the annual Gay Pride…
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‘Portrait’ of peacemakers
Categories: ArtbeatMore than a thousand people saw the movie Peace Makers at the Theodorskirch during the first Night of Faith Festival that took place in Basel on May 17.
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Three remembered for strong relationships
Categories: UncategorizedThree former staff members of Mennonite Pioneer Missions and Native Ministry, the predecessor organizations of Mennonite Church Canada Indigenous Relations, passed away in April and May of this year. Ronald…
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Ontario indigenous woman awarded Sattler Peace Prize
Categories: UncategorizedJudy da Silva, a member of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was this year’s recipient of the Michael Sattler Peace Prize from the German Mennonite Peace Committee.
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Foodgrains Bank launches Syria crisis appeal
Categories: Uncategorized“Every night I go to bed thinking about what I will feed my family in the morning,” says a Syrian woman who fled with her family to a refugee settlement…
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Walking humbly
Categories: UncategorizedOur youth group from Petitcodiac Mennonite Church in New Brunswick had the opportunity to travel to Silver Lake Mennonite Camp, Hepworth, Ont., on the May long weekend for the 2013…
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What is Spirit baptism?
Categories: ViewpointsTo baptize originally meant “to immerse” or “place into.” Usually. (Etymology can be complicated and controversial stuff.) Some of the oldest “baptism” references we have in the Greek language outside…
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There comes a time in every parent’s life
Categories: ViewpointsWatching my friend struggle with her three-year-old, I smiled sympathetically. Her daughter, like many three-year-olds, was willful, perhaps exceptionally so, full of spirit and determination, and eager to explore the…
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If I had a million dollars
Categories: ViewpointsMany of us dream about how we might spend a large, unexpected windfall. Some imagine travelling to exotic locales, or owning a new vehicle or dream home. Some dream about…
