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Where are Mennonites at the TRC?
Categories: Uncategorized“The stories are horrific. You can’t listen to them without a sick feeling of disbelief rising in your stomach. It’s easy to tell yourself that, because you were not personally…
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Walking the talk on reconciliation
Categories: UncategorizedHow can Canada’s churches move past their residential school history into a positive relationship with Indigenous Peoples? That was one question asked during The Meeting Place conference in Toronto, hosted…
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U.S. pastor elected as next MWC president
Categories: UncategorizedIt took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill as president-elect of Mennonite World Conference…
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‘The gift we hold together’
Categories: UncategorizedIn three presentations at the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) General Council meetings last month, theologians and historians revisited the Anabaptist vision in a global context and sought input from meeting…
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A long way home
Categories: Feature ArticlesWalking along the bank of the Limmat River, Thioro Bananzoro ponders the challenges Anabaptists have turned into opportunities over the last five centuries.
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‘Should I live with my boyfriend?’
Categories: ViewpointsNo one ever asks me if I think it’s a good idea for them to begin living with their boyfriend (or girlfriend). If they did, I would say, “No! That’s…
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Speaking of inheritance
Categories: ViewpointsWills and estate planning are hot topics of conversation, and while it may seem like we hear about them a lot these days, it is certainly not new news, either…
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I am a multi-lane bridge
Categories: ViewpointsIn the fall of 2010, congregations in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick expressed yearning for a stronger multi-lane bridge of connection with the wider church—namely Mennonite Church Canada and MC…
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsMennonites need to engage politicians ‘creatively and critically’
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How does your congregation go about making important decisions? Do you use discernment language? How do you listen for the voice of God when you are wrestling with an…
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Tips to get discernment right
Categories: Feature ArticlesTrust that God is with us throughout the discernment process no matter the decision. Figure out what the issue is. This is really important! We can spend a lot of…
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Try a little discernment
Categories: Feature ArticlesDiscernment is a common topic in our congregations these days. We discern a pastoral call, a building program, theology and biblical texts.
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Discernment front and centre
Categories: Editorial“Discernment,” a word in vogue right now among church leaders and theologians, can seem abstract, almost pedantic, and elusive as an operative term for the person in the pew. We…
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Wink challenged ‘powers’ and taught nonviolence
Categories: Web FirstNew Testament theologian Walter Wink, noted for relating the biblical phrase “principalities and powers” to the dominating sociopolitical structures of the modern era, died May 10, leaving a legacy of…
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Stouffville counters with peace at 1812 parade
Categories: Web FirstSome 60 Mennonites, Quakers and Brethren in Christ members, including seniors and children, gathered for a peace church testimony Saturday, June 16, during Stouffville’s commemoration of the War of 1812,…
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Selling hospitality
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the ideas of service and hospitality play out in our society – namely, in the so-called “service” or “hospitality industry” of restaurants, hotels, etc.…
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AMBS appoints two faculty members to focus on Christian formation
Categories: Web FirstRachel Miller Jacobs and Andy Brubacher Kaethler have been appointed to faculty positions at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, each to focus on different aspects of Christian faith formation in our…
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Huebner named to business faculty at CMU
Categories: Web FirstJeff Huebner, of Calgary, has been appointed by the Board of Governors to the faculty of the Redekop School of Business at Canadian Mennonite University. Huebner comes to CMU from…
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Is Canada’s ethical climate changing?
Categories: UncategorizedAs the battle over the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline plays out, key questions about the moral make-up of Canada will be answered: questions about the balance between economic growth and…
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The Wounded Heart of God
“The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin” by Andrew Sung Park is not light bedtime reading. Yet, I think this is…
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