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The limitless power of limits
Categories: ViewpointsThe church in the North American context is facing limits she must accept, for God has placed them in her path for the sake of his glory and the integrity…
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Two everyday heroes of the faith
Categories: ViewpointsWhat’s at the heart of the matter? What is basic and essential to our questions of faith and life? Such questions were asked of Jesus in attempts to trap him.…
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Care for creation and environmental justice
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen Bob Lovelace, a chief of the Ardoch Algonquin of Northeastern Ontario, wrote about his people’s struggle over uranium exploration on their land, he did so from a Canadian maximum…
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Bringing in the ‘peaceable kingdom’
Categories: EditorialThere may be good reason why we, the Mennonites, are not joining the United Church of Canada, the Anglican bishops and 28 Presbyterian churches in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland in…
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Africa most devout region in world
Categories: Web FirstAfrica has topped the list of most devout regions of the world, with 89 percent calling themselves religious, according to a worldwide poll called “The Global Index of Religiosity and…
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Patterns of Empire
While living in the United States, I thought a lot about J. Nelson Kraybill’s “Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation” and I’ve referred to…
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Al Geiser remembered at service
Categories: Web FirstGray skies sputtered rain into the muggy Ohio afternoon as friends and family gathered for the memorial service for Alfred Geiser on Aug. 5. The organist played "When Peace Like…
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Removing Mountains
Mountaintop removal. Tar sands. Mass destruction of earth and creation for sake of getting at the coal and oil underground. While there are inevitably complexities for each community facing companies…
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Colombia: 5 million internally displaced persons
Categories: Web FirstWhile governments and corporations may paint a rosy picture of Colombia, some facts are worth bearing in mind. Colombia’s continual internal armed conflict perpetuates serious human rights abuses by guerillas, paramilitaries,…
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The Dark Knight Rises? or A Dark Night Falls?
Categories: ArtbeatShe has the best of lines; she has the worst of lines. I am referring to the dialogue of Catwoman in this summer’s mega-blockbuster film, The Dark Knight Rises, based…
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Imaging Christ, together: reflections on Assembly
Since I no longer live in one of the Mennonite “centres” like Winnipeg and Waterloo, I find myself sometimes feeling cut off from the larger Mennonite church. Earlier this month,…
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MCC aid reaches Syrian refugees in Jordan
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee (MCC) continues to address needs of refugees fleeing from increasing violence in Syria. Caritas Jordan, an MCC partner, is distributing comforters, relief kits, school kits and hygiene…
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Record Year for Niverville Wheat Project
Categories: Web FirstWith a record donation to Canadian Foodgrains Bank, members of the Niverville and District growing project have reason to celebrate. On July 24, the project harvested 78.2 bushels an acre…
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Billy Graham enters Chick-fil-A controversy
Categories: Web FirstBilly Graham, usually silent since he retired to his cabin in the beautiful North Carolina mountains, has come out roaring this week. Days ago he decried America’s spiritual decline. Now…
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An affective fellowship
A statement made by Mennonite Church Manitoba’s Executive Director Ken Warkentin concluding a recent Canadian Mennonite piece “We’re Sorry” caught me off guard. In it he took, what I understood…
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Longing for peace in Niagara
Categories: Web FirstThe historic District of Niagara included what is roughly the whole of the Niagara Peninsula. It began at Hamilton and stretched along Lake Ontario toward the Niagara River, bordering the…
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A Church with global limbs
Categories: UncategorizedIn her book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman describes an autobiography that eighth-grader May Lee completed for school. Lee, a Hmong girl living in California’s…
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Young War Resisters face uncertain future
Categories: UncategorizedGrowing up in a pro-military culture like Mesquite, Texas, meant that Kimberly Rivera never thought she would leave the army. “I was pro-war, pro-life, pro-death penalty,” said the 30-year-old. “I…
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59 cents for refugee health care
Categories: UncategorizedA Guatemalan man named Byron took a political stand against the injustice in his country. As a result, his family was murdered before his eyes. Byron managed to escape to…
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