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Egyptian Cinema
This post first appeared on Isaac and Wanda’s blog, Life in Egypt We are currently on holiday after a wonderful MCC retreat in Barcelona, Spain! It has been a wonderful…
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Asking the same questions
As some of you will know from a previous post of mine, I enjoy Mennonite literature a great deal, so I was delighted to be able to attend a lecture…
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A Touch More
My roommate Julia and I like to hold hands. Walking to the bus stop, walking to class, walking to a theatre, mall, or grocery store, we are almost always holding…
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Keeping the Sabbath
I am a wonderful time-waster. My skills at procrastinating are top notch. So when exam season again reared it’s so very ugly head this month, I managed to do just…
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A Family Reunion
This post first appeared on Isaac and Wanda’s blog Life in Egypt Less than a week ago we bid farewell to my parents Tim and Johanna. They came to Egypt…
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The church as landlord
Categories: UncategorizedIn an age when many Mennonite churches worry about losing young people, David Epp has a solution: the church should become their landlord. At Rosthern Mennonite Church’s semi-annual meeting late…
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When churches plug in
Categories: UncategorizedThe blue hymnal is nestled in the pew rack, its binding loose from having its spine cracked and pages flipped too many times to count. Now, as technology drives the…
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In the House of Friendship
Categories: UncategorizedCasa de la Amistad—House of Friendship—is a welcome change for about 140 Bolivian children aged 4 to 18. They are happy to participate in a program that offers them two…
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Spring 2013 List of Books & Resources
Categories: UncategorizedTheology/Spirituality Citizenship: Paul on Peace and Politics. Gordon Mark Zerbe. Canadian Mennonite University Press, 2012, 276 pages.
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New Anabaptist Sunday school curriculum coming fall 2014
Categories: UncategorizedDevelopment of a new Sunday school curriculum called Shine is underway by publishers MennoMedia and Brethren Press. Writers are beginning this month on the first quarter of Shine: Living in…
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Learning from the indigenous among us
Categories: UncategorizedMore information does not mean we will make the right choices, but less information insures an impoverished understanding. As the initial wave of media attention over Idle No More wanes,…
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Romance novels by and for evangelicals
Categories: UncategorizedAmish romance novels are big business, with the top authors selling millions of copies. From the 1990s to 2004, one or two Amish novels were published each year. By 2008,…
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Journalist honoured by Muslim community
Categories: UncategorizedBrenda Suderman, a member of Home Street Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, was one of two Winnipeg Free Press journalists to be honoured by the Islamic Social Services Association with its Ihsan…
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‘Where oil flows beneath our feet’
Categories: UncategorizedA cross in the ditch is a common marker for tragic events, so on Holy Saturday, March 30, a wooden cross is planted in the snowy ditch just outside the…
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A time of mystery and disorientation
Categories: UncategorizedWhile Mennonites in Canada enjoy an era of economic abundance, less and less of that wealth is trickling down to the area and national churches.
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Today’s church in the ‘Age of Spirit’
Categories: ViewpointsFor me, the Holy Spirit is the central character and protagonist of the New Testament, especially after Jesus’ death and resurrection. As John the Baptist was the forerunner—one who goes…
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What are you reading?
Categories: Viewpoints“What are you reading?” I’ll ask my mother, a friend or colleague. Partly I’m trolling for good titles, and partly I’m inviting them to tell me about their lives, what…
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Not as a I do
Categories: ViewpointsWe can be sure that the children and youth around us are observing our money habits, sometimes in surprising detail. On a shopping trip with my then young children, one…
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Our own best resource
Categories: ViewpointsWith its 225 congregations, Mennonite Church Canada has more “franchises” across the country than Future Shop and Best Buy combined, making us our own best resource.
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