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Readers write
Categories: Viewpoints‘Freedom of speech is hard work’ I am writing to share my thoughts on the relationship Canadian Mennonite has developed with the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA).
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. Bruce Hiebert says we will make better ethical decisions if our brains are filled with biblical images. Do you find his arguments convincing? Have we been doing a good…
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Imagination, hope and peace
Categories: Feature ArticlesReading the Bible for ethics is no easy task. It means facing an obscure document held as vital by an older generation, but of increasing irrelevance to a changing world.…
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A hijacked faith?
Categories: EditorialIn her “Mennonites have a long history of environmental activism” letter to the editor on page 12, Joanne Moyer questions whether it was fair to hold Menno Simons to account…
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Intentional Communities: Words of Wisdom Pt.1
Last year I had the opportunity to interview numerous people living in intentional communities across Ontario. The following are words of experience and wisdom from people who strive to love…
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Procrastination with a Purpose
Procrastination happens for a reason. A quote I saw once suggested that often, it’s because I don’t give ourselves enough between projects to fully rest and enjoy the sense of…
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At halftime, a religious alternative to Beyonce
Categories: Web FirstSuper Bowl halftime shows often burn more vivid images into the American conscience than the most-watched football game of the year, and can claim millions more viewers. They can also…
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Redemptive Moments Pt. 2
In my last post, I wrote about feelings of inadequacy common, in my experience, among university students regarding the world’s “big issues”. I want to focus this post on another…
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Let’s talk about it
Categories: UncategorizedYouth growing up in many Mennonite churches could be forgiven for thinking that homosexual sex is the only kind of intercourse people have, because that’s the only kind many congregations…
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Forging a missional fire
Categories: UncategorizedAt one point Christianity was the centre of life in North America; now it has been pushed to the margins. But that’s an important place to be, according to Cam…
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‘Metaphors in cloth and clay’
Categories: Back Page‘Metaphors in cloth and clay,’ a new exhibit at the Mennonite Heritage Gallery, Winnipeg, combines the individual and collaborative work of Winnipeg artists Ingrid Lincoln and Gaëtanne Sylvester. It challenges…
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One woman’s journey into the pastorate
Categories: UncategorizedGuelph Mennonite Church, which Martha Smith Good was pastoring, had requested ordination for her, but the then Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec wanted to license her instead.
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A servant leader
Categories: UncategorizedJoseph S. Neufeld was born into a large Mennonite family and community in rural Alberta. Having many sisters and brothers, and growing up in the Dirty Thirties, he quickly developed…
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Exploring mind, body and soul connections
Categories: UncategorizedDetermination to exercise more, or to improve one’s spiritual life, are on many people’s lists as they begin a new year. Thirty people who met at Camp Squeah from Jan.…
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Chin church supports fellow Burmese believers
Categories: UncategorizedVictor Khambil, secretary for the Chin Christian Church, Kitchener, was front and centre at a peaceful protest at city hall on Jan. 19.
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Just a ‘peace’ of Jesus?
Categories: UncategorizedPeace. The final frontier. This is the hope of the Mennonite Church. Its mission: To witness in a strange new world. To seek renewed life, renewed community, and to boldly…
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Activist, peace trainer and role model
Categories: UncategorizedOuyporn Khuankaew travelled a long way to teach at the 2012 Canadian School for Peacebuilding at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) last summer, and she says the trip was well worth…
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Headed in the right direction
Categories: UncategorizedBethany Johnson is exactly where she wanted to be after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in 2012 with a degree in biology: well on her way to a career…
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Why reimagine seminaries?
Categories: UncategorizedThere are countless good schools that prepare all manner of public servants. We have great doctors and lawyers, business leaders and scientists—thanks be to God.
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