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Spreading the Word in South Korea
Categories: UncategorizedNorth American churches forget how special Anabaptism is, say Erwin and Marian Wiens, recently returned from Korea. The Wienses are no strangers to South Korea. Ten years ago, they served…
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Chiara House
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Andrew, a new Christian in Little Flowers Community Church, tragically took his life, it shook the church to its core. Pastor Jamie Arpin-Ricci said it was the death of…
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Shedding Sola Scriptura
Categories: ViewpointsI grew up in a church where everything was painted “Sola Scriptura.” I’m not referring to some chic Greco-Roman inspired hue from Benjamin Moore, but a Latin phrase meaning “Scripture…
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Impulsive generosity
Categories: ViewpointsIn his book Money, Sex and Power, Richard Foster tells this story: “A doctor once asked a very wealthy patient, ‘What on earth are you going to do with all…
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September sanity
Categories: ViewpointsOn a deliciously warm summer afternoon in the middle of August, I greeted my neighbour who is a teacher. We exchanged a few pleasantries and then I began to ask…
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Calling and praying for our church leaders
Categories: ViewpointsWhen Mennonite Church Canada’s Assembly 2012 drew to a close, so did my four-year term as Moderator of Mennonite Church Canada.
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. What anniversary celebrations has your congregation participated in? How are these celebrations similar to or different from the one held in the Democratic Republic of Congo this summer? What…
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Congolese Soccer and Song
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen a Belgian school inspector needed to recruit singers for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels, he entrusted the task to two missionary women, one of whom was Lodema Short.…
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Congolese Mennonites celebrate 100 years of God’s faithfulness
Categories: Feature ArticlesFifty-some young musicians walked nearly 100 miles carrying their drums, luggage and a few babies to attend the centennial celebration of Communauté Mennonite au Congo—CMCO (Mennonite Community in Congo), July…
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Rejoice with the Congolese
Categories: EditorialIt is much too easy in these days of self-examination as Anabaptist Christians in the 21st century to punish ourselves for colossal blunders when “spreading the gospel” here and around…
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Swords and ploughshares
Categories: Uncategorized“To live in the Holy Land, you must be crazy, or you must believe in miracles,” farmer Daoud Nassar tells our group assembled in a cave just outside of Bethlehem.…
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Marching to Zion
Categories: UncategorizedThe streets are packed. Hordes of people move at once, criss-crossing over the smooth stone streets and deftly navigating down many stairs. Vendors shouting in Arabic call from all sides,…
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Kiss of the Fur Queen
Categories: Web First – Opinion“Mush!” the hunter cried into the wind, through the rising vapour of a northern Manitoba February, so crisp, so dry, the snow creaked underfoot, the caribou hunter Abraham Okinasis drove…
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Faith groups in Pakistan seek release of girl accused of blasphemy
Categories: Web FirstA bail hearing is set for today, Aug. 28, in Islamabad in the case of a girl charged with blasphemy for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, Islam’s holy scriptures.…
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Officers describe bizarre Amish beard-cutting
Categories: Web FirstLaw officers testified Wednesday (Sept. 5, 2012) about the chaotic and bizarre scene they discovered the night of Oct. 4, 2011, when they arrived at the Holmes County, Ohio, home…
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Akido and The Jesus Way
Akido is sometimes described as a nonviolent martial art. At the Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute in Hiroshima, Japan, I had the privilege of learning a bit from a Japanese Mennonite…
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Ethiopian Evangelical Church mourns prime minister
Categories: Web FirstThe leader of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church has urged citizens to observe peace, love and tolerance as the country mourns the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. The Rev. Wakseyoum…
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Does megachurch ‘high’ explain their success?
Categories: Web FirstMaybe religion really is the opiate of the masses – just not the way Karl Marx imagined. A University of Washington study posits that worship services at megachurches can trigger…
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Uncovering Mammon: Fracking in Mennonite Country
Categories: ViewpointsRecently I was visiting the homeland of my childhood, Wayne County, in Northeast Ohio. Here, corn is king, God and family are first and most have been farming for generations.…
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