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‘Install’ just may be the right word
Categories: Viewpoints“I’m not an appliance or computer program!” That’s a comment I’ve heard from ministers as we planned an installation service in their new congregation. “Can’t we find a better word…
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The economy and my new pair of shoes
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe other morning, after dreaming to the tune of the constant patter of rain on the tin roof of my house, I woke early to enjoy a morning stroll through…
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Blessed are the tree huggers
Categories: EditorialWhy has “creation care,” as we have come to euphemize an issue that distinguishes our faith-based concern for the environment, risen to the top of our conversation as modern-day Anabaptists?
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Al-Qaida magazine warns of more ‘lone wolf’ attacks
Categories: Web FirstThe online English-language al-Qaida magazine Inspire, which once printed instructions for building a pressure-cooker bomb, has published a special edition that attempts to take credit for motivating the Boston bombers…
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Blog of the day: Reader’s Picks
There have been more and more suggestions for good Menno blogs – and I really can’t decided between them all. So instead of choosing one this week, I’ll present you…
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Deleting Distraction
I caved and bought an iPhone earlier this month. It is shiny and efficient and useful. It’s also a whole lot of fun. Addictive fun. The first game I fell…
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Syrian civil war forces Sunni and Shiite Muslims to pick sides
Categories: Web FirstThe Syrian civil war is increasingly drawing in nations across the Middle East, a regionwide conflict that threatens to pit world powers against each other and Muslim against Muslim. On…
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Encounters with Islam: Part II
It is easy to imagine angry fundamentalist types in the Middle East. And they most certainly exist- thugs or bigots who grew beards. Faces that never smile. Yet your typical…
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Controlling My Complaints
I am a complainer. I almost always feel cold, hungry or tired—sometimes all three at once—and I am almost always vocal about it. Most of the time, unfortunately, I don’t…
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Encounters with Islam: Part I
Living in a Muslim country has been an amazing experience. The Islamic world had long-fascinated me as something so strange and different from my own context. I would often wonder,…
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Straddling boundaries
Categories: UncategorizedI was sitting in a theology class during my first year at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, when the question first dawned on me: Where does my professor go…
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Express yourself
Categories: UncategorizedSome readers may only know me as Canadian Mennonite’s Young Voices co-editor. Not many know a lot about me. I have a meaningful relationship with Netflix, I’m addicted to Twitter,…
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COMMENTARY: The revolution is upon us
Categories: ViewpointsReligious historians say that every 500 years, Christianity goes through a “massive transition,” as noted religion writer Phyllis Tickle puts it. Around 500 A.D., “barbarians” sought to subjugate Rome by…
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MCC sets new target for Syria crisis campaign
Categories: Back PageThe executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada says the situation in Syria is likely to worsen and more must be done for the people affected by the conflict.
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Professor studied Anabaptist history and present-day Anabaptists
Categories: UncategorizedLeland Harder, a scholar of both Anabaptist history and Anabaptists of the late 1900s, died at the age of 86 in North Newton, Kan. Harder was a pastor, seminary professor…
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Timeless treasures at Waterloo North
Categories: UncategorizedWhere could you go in your town to find a show of artifacts from three or four continents? Our 50 +/- group at Waterloo North Mennonite Church, Waterloo, did just…
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An unfinished agenda
Categories: UncategorizedThe title of Coming Home is an appropriate metaphor for this fascinating retelling of the last 60 years of Robert Kreider’s 93-year pilgrimage. We read about at least three “homes”:…
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The impact of one woman pastor’s ordination
Categories: ArtbeatBy telling the story of the ordination of Emma Sommers Richards, a new book from the Institute of Mennonite Studies aims to show that “all church members will share in…
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An unlikely friendship
Categories: UncategorizedAn unlikely but emerging friendship between Mzwandile Nkutha and Cobus van Wyngaard through the Anabaptist Network in South Africa (ANiSA) demonstrates in a small way what it looks like to…
