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Killing her softly
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt’s Sunday morning, and you greet Sandy* and Bob* as they sit in the pew behind you. You smile and shake hands. What you see is a nice couple, good…
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Gift discernment?
Categories: Editorial“Gift discernment,” as practised in many of our congregations, is neither. This sometimes agonizing ritual of finding enough willing members to fill the slots needed to keep the faith community…
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Wide-Eyed and Mystified
Having reviewed two albums from talented American Christian groups I feel it is high time I move North of the border. Canada has a number of accomplished and excellent Christian…
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A Collision or (3+4=7)
The next album under review comes from one of the most popular Christian groups of the last decade. Though they recently played their last show together as a group, the…
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Is a sermon more than a speech?
I’ve listened to quite a few sermons in my lifetime, and have crafted and preached a dozen or so myself, too. They’re usually the part of worship that I most…
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Neighbours, friends join new members
Categories: Web FirstSunday, June 24, was a special Sunday for the St. Agatha (Ont.) Mennonite congregation. Our Church Membership Sunday welcomed persons through baptism, membership by confession of faith, affirmation of membership,…
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‘Love of God’ tops most-sung in song survey
Categories: Web First“The Love of God” is the song most sung in Canada and the US in the Hymnal: A Worship Book and their two supplements, Sing the Journey and Sing the…
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Young Voices is hiring
Categories: UncategorizedYoung Voices is looking for two young writers to fill vacancies on its blog. We want to hear from writers with thoughts about faith, art, finances, books, politics, school, the…
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Wiens: rising political star in Paraguay
Categories: Web FirstNews update: In what is being called a Saturday night coup, Paraguay’s Senate removed President Fernando Lugo for what they charged was his role in a deadly clash between police…
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Ecumenical leaders decry deadly battle over land in Paraguay
Categories: Web FirstThe leader of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) has condemned a deadly clash June 15 between army troops and farmers fighting eviction in Paraguay. “No violence of any…
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Landscapes of war, a people of peace
Categories: Web FirstThe War of 1812 is important to commemorate for many reasons. As the only defensive war fought on Canadian soil in the last two centuries, it was also the first…
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Suspicious hospitality: Feds reduce health coverage for refugees
Categories: Web FirstAccording to the UN, there are now 10.5 million refugees who have been forced to flee their countries due to conflict, natural disaster or persecution. About 25,000 of these people…
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Winners announced
Categories: Back PageChris and Selah have found a new home. The action figures based on Mennonite Church Canada’s Advent- and Lent-at-Home resources were awarded to Rebecca and Andrew Stoesz, aged eight and…
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Carrying on traditions
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite communities have developed a rich tradition of raising hundreds of thousands of dollars each year at community events like the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale. This event brings together…
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The path towards reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedTravelling to another country has a way of creating a new lens on life with a vivid new focus, but not in the way that I had expected. As I…
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Where are the manly mentors?
Categories: Uncategorized“That woman has really nice shoes,” said a man with whom I am acquainted. I was at a restaurant in Vancouver with four men. Three of them were talking about…
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Prophetic peacemaking in action
Categories: ArtbeatIt was January 1989 when J. R. Burkholder taught liberation theology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind. Interterm at AMBS is one course, usually studied over 13 weeks, compressed…
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Facing the mental health frontier
Categories: UncategorizedAll the fear, stigma and social prejudice that surrounds mental illness recently surfaced again in the media when a review board granted Vince Li temporary passes to take supervised walks…
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Native Ministry becomes Indigenous Relations
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Church Canada’s Native Ministry has changed its name to Indigenous Relations effective immediately.
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Indigenous day school survivors initiate class action lawsuit
Categories: UncategorizedOfficial government apologies and the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process do not include all prior students of government-funded, church-run schools for Indigenous Peoples, a handful of which have…
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