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Let’s play ball
Categories: ViewpointsWhen my husband asked me to join him to watch 42, a movie about baseball legend Jackie Robinson, whom he had followed since the 1950s, I felt less than enthusiastic.
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsReference to age of the cosmos distracts from editorial’s main point
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How has your church changed since the 1960s and ’70s? Have there been major changes in the church structures and programs? Do congregational leaders feel hopeful or anxious about…
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Finding new paths through the wilderness
Categories: Feature ArticlesThere is a changing reality in many Mennonite churches today. Like other denominations, Mennonite congregations have long lost the gravitational pull they had in the early and mid-1900s, when community…
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Finding our way
Categories: EditorialKen Bechtel makes an astute observation in our lead feature when he says the church in postmodernity is more about “the experiential, spirituality, community, globalism, relativism and authenticity” than the…
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Speculation about Mandela’s fate seen as cultural taboo
Categories: Web FirstWill native son and national hero Nelson Mandela survive his latest bout with illness? That is the single question dominating headlines, speeches, Twitter and conversation throughout South Africa. It’s an…
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Soccer ban on Sikh turbans leads to backlash against Quebec
Categories: Web FirstQuebec’s decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is having national repercussions. Last week, the Canadian Soccer Association suspended the Quebec Soccer Federation for instituting the ban…
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Vancouver Peace Choir Builds Bridges
Categories: Web FirstEast Vancouver is one of the city’s most culturally diverse areas. Thus, it was entirely fitting that Tim Corlis brought his Vancouver Peace Choir there to give a very special concert.…
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Commentary: When the government lies, a covenant is broken
Categories: ViewpointsAfter denials and evasions, we learned that two successive administrations lied to the American public about unprecedented spying on ordinary citizens. The latest phase of this longtime spying effort began…
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Remembering Hagar
Every once in a while, I’m reminded of forgotten characters from the dusty corners of the biblical narrative, characters we tend not to read or think about much during worship.…
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Why John Calvin is shaking things up for Southern Baptists
Categories: Web FirstNearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide is emerging — this time over the teachings of 16th-century Reformer John Calvin —…
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You get what you need . . . in church
Categories: UncategorizedA discussion among us thirty-something Mennonites has been heating up online. It’s a discussion that cuts to the heart of nearly everything the church worries about us. The discussion question…
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Holy moments at the bottom of the world
Categories: UncategorizedZoe Matties describes the four months she spent taking groups on tours between Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Georgia and Antarctica with One Ocean Expeditions as “holy moments.” “It’s just this…
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On being ‘positively contaminated’
Categories: Artbeat“Imagine spitting into a Dixie cup. After doing so, how would you feel if you were asked to drink the contents of the cup?” This is the opening image used…
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Sharing a miracle
Categories: UncategorizedAmanda Falla believes that miracles appear to be uncommon because people don’t talk about them. But she cannot keep quiet about hers.
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Four national awards for Canadian Mennonite
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite received four awards at this year’s Canadian Church Press (CCP) ceremony held in Toronto last month at the conclusion of the association’s annual convention.
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Making a difference close to home
Categories: UncategorizedYou don’t need to travel the globe to find a place to serve. That’s what the young adults at Douglas Mennonite Church in Winnipeg came to realize when they decided…
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Talking to the regime
Categories: UncategorizedAfter Iranians replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a two-term president, in this month’s elections, much of the world will remember him as an enigmatic hardliner from a far-off place. They will remember…
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Eating mindfully
Categories: ViewpointsIt was an average supper for us. My partner made potato-leek soup and I put some buns on the table. We said grace and we ate. I liked the soup,…
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Belong, believe and behave
Categories: ViewpointsWhich of these is most important to be a follower of Jesus: belonging, behaviour or belief? This is not a trick question, so chew on this one for a while…
