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Coming home
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn my first year at Canadian Mennonite University, my first year away from home, I kept a running countdown to the Christmas holidays on the whiteboard stuck to my dorm…
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A father’s perspective on Advent
Categories: Feature ArticlesOur childhood returns to us through our children—especially in the season of Advent.
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What Advent means to me
Categories: Feature ArticlesAdvent means memories, traditions, plans, lists, emotions and thoughts. In my youth in western Canada, growing up in a Mennonite Brethren (MB) community, Advent was a season. It was not…
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Advent hymns and texts are disturbing.
Categories: Feature Articles“O come, O come Emmanuel,” a stock dirge of Advent, comes from a house of pain that once was, still is, and shall be again. The hymn is haunting. (HWB…
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Practice the peace we proclaim
Categories: EditorialWhile I appreciate the widespread support for Canadian Mennonite when we broke the story in our last edition regarding Canada Revenue Agency reminding us about “political partisanship” cited in two…
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At the Table
Pastor Ishiya met us at Fudoin station and we drove the ten minutes up the hills, through the back streets, until we arrived at a traditional Japanese house – Hiroshima…
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Arts & Worship: Dynamic Expressions (#2)
worship is about honest expression Part of having a dynamic faith involves a cultivating a habit of looking for God in every place. It means looking for God in how…
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The Peacebuilding Busker
Let me introduce you to today’s spotlight peacebuilder . Every night he heads out to the streets of Osborne Village in Winnipeg, Manitoba, takes out his guitar, lights a candle,…
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No offence!
Categories: UncategorizedWhat offends you? When should Christians be offended by what they see in the world around them, and how should they respond? Those questions were recently addressed in a Huffington…
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Christianity on the margins
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite University took 12 students on a study tour to the United Kingdom this summer led by Professor Irma Fast Dueck. The students explored the theme of Christianity on…
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Mennonites and human rights
Categories: UncategorizedSheep, shepherds and wolves—that’s the metaphor Virgil O. Wiebe uses to describe how Mennonites have traditionally related to human rights. Wiebe, a professor from the Faculty of Law at the…
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Reconciling our vision of holiness with the reality of sin
Categories: ArtbeatIf the grim historical associations with words like “purity” and “cleansing” are any indication, then Sider is right to suggest that the church has had trouble reconciling the messiness of…
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First female Mennonite missionary went down with the Titanic
Categories: UncategorizedThis year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Throughout this commemorative year there has been much in-depth coverage of the Titanic but a little-known part of…
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New assignment in Burkina Faso
Categories: UncategorizedNancy Frey and Bruce Yoder are building a new home in Burkina Faso with their children Jeremiah and Deborah. In the capital city of Ouagadougou, the Frey Yoders connect with…
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Canadian Mennonite warned of political activities
Categories: UncategorizedA federal government agency has warned Canadian Mennonite about publishing material that could rally its readers to oppose specific politicians and political parties. A letter to the magazine from Canada…
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The paths and ditches of Biblical interpretation
Categories: UncategorizedPath #2: Context makes a difference By Rudy Baergen, Co-chair, Being a Faithful Church Task Force “Context makes a difference in how Scripture is interpreted, understood, and applied for faith and…
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MCC’s big building rationale not compelling
Categories: ViewpointsDuring a July interview, Rick Cober Bauman—head of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario—spoke with much enthusiasm about the $12-million Menno complex now under construction in Kitchener, Ont. At the end…
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Facing the sins of the social gospel
Categories: ViewpointsI’m fumbling for a third way to define sin. I recently led a Sunday-morning discussion in our church on the topic of the social gospel. In that discussion, I found…
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Deliberate and Deliberate
Categories: ViewpointsI’ve been part of countless conversations where people deliberate over the state of the church. Among church veterans this usually revolves around what the church has lost or is no…
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Where are the Followers?
Categories: ViewpointsEver since being part of the North American Mennonite Church, I’ve appreciated the cyclical if not constant emphasis on leadership development. Self-development for personal satisfaction, new and increased competency for…
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