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The priority problem
Categories: ViewpointsFewer Christians are reading their Bibles today. Not exactly a news flash. The real question is, why are so many of us no longer reading our Bibles? I think there…
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Elder wisdom
Categories: Viewpoints“Mom, does my hair look okay at the back?” asked the pastor just before she exited the washroom to enter the hall where she would officiate at a wedding.
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Navigating change
Categories: ViewpointsOn Jan. 11, I joined an Idle No More event initiated by Mennonites in Winnipeg on the same day aboriginal chiefs met with the prime minister. One driver who was…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. Tom Yoder Neufeld says that teaching and learning are acts of faith, especially when it comes to sacred texts such as the Bible (page 6). What learning or teaching…
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In conversation with Tom Yoder Neufeld
Categories: Feature ArticlesRWM: For much, if not all, of your adult life, you have served as a chaplain, pastor or professor. What—or who—were the influences in your growing-up years that led you…
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Why do we meet?
Categories: Editorial“And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.”
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Rewriting History
I’ve been borrowing books from the Mennonite Church Canada Resource Centre and highly recommend their “recommended titles.” Recently, I finished Emma LaRocque’s “When the Other is Me.” According to one summary online, in…
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Obama’s use of Scripture echoes Lincoln, King
Categories: Web FirstPresident Obama will publicly take the oath of office with Bibles once owned by his political heroes, Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. One Bible was well…
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Advocating for the Orphan: The Interview
Earlier this month we published ‘Advocating for the Orphan’ The following is more of the extended interview. Enjoy! 1. Basic Bio information – Names/ages of family, church, occupation, location, etc…
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Engaging the Next Generation
At a seminar on cooperative organizations in Saskatchewan, Harold Chapman, a 93-year-old professor, historian, and writer, told us the history from the inside of his involvement in cooperative organizations as…
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Advocating for the orphan
Categories: UncategorizedChantel Klassen and her husband Jared have declared themselves passionate about advocating for the orphan. These twenty-somethings from Warman, Sask., see loving the orphan as an inseparable part of their…
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#IdleNoMore concerns Mennonites too
Categories: UncategorizedThe Idle No More movement is not just an “Indian thing.” Thousands of people in Canada and around the world—including Mennonites—have rallied to stand in solidarity with this grassroots political…
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Portrait of a thriving young-adult group
Categories: UncategorizedIn an age where young-adult church attendance is often declining, many churches want to build a vibrant group for this demographic. Springfield Heights Mennonite Church seems to have found a…
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Ted Swartz documents life after loss of creative partner
Categories: ArtbeatPlaywright and actor Ted Swartz has scripted his most personal work yet, this time in autobiographical form.
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Long-time youth advocate retires
Categories: UncategorizedDessert was artistically displayed against a candlelit backdrop at Wildwood Mennonite Church as a few dozen people gathered late last year to celebrate Anna Rehan’s long and fruitful ministry as…
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Listening to the participants
Categories: Uncategorized“I hope this is the beginning of something.”
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Zehr Institute named after ‘grandfather of restorative justice’
Categories: UncategorizedHoward Zehr, widely known as the “grandfather of restorative justice,” will step aside from his teaching role at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) after the spring 2013 semester and begin co-leading…
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A kingdom of God management primer
Categories: UncategorizedRecently, I gave a presentation on the tension between answering God’s call and the demands of the world. I explained how hard it is, because most North American consumers seem…
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Practise, practise, practise
Categories: UncategorizedI love the piano in our living room. The small Wurlitzer fits nicely into the proportions of the room and often provides a good platform for seasonal decorations and whatever…
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