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Anabaptist Educators Speak Up!
Now that I’ve finished my master’s in Education and a certificate in Peacebuilding from a Mennonite university, I suppose I should know something about Anabaptist education. In truth, though, from…
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Finding a place in the wider church
Categories: UncategorizedLaura Epp is passionate about the Mennonite church. The 22-year-old is the secretary of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s Ministries Commission.She has attended the annual MC Saskatchewan delegate sessions for the last…
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Spreading the gospel of peace globally
Categories: UncategorizedIt has been said that life is a highway. Sometimes that highway leads you out of the country, across oceans and completely out of your comfort zone. This is the…
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A time to re-imagine the seminary?
Categories: UncategorizedThe seminary is important. For years the standard has been, “If ministry is in your future, then so should seminary.” But I’m not sure if I will be going to…
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What would Jesus eat?
Categories: UncategorizedLike most North Americans, I grew up in a household where no meal was complete without a serving of meat, although I didn’t really know where the meat that I…
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A green heritage
Categories: UncategorizedJane Snyder chose the local Seven Shores Urban Market and Café in Uptown Waterloo to meet. Within walking distance of her home, and featuring local produce and fair trade coffee,…
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Something new under the sun
Categories: UncategorizedThere’s nothing new under the sun, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, but in Waterloo Region, Ont., there are lots of new things under the sun: solar projects, that is!
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More superheroes . . . or a Saviour?
Categories: ArtbeatWhen an army of nasty aliens in giant reptilian ships threatens to take over the Earth and enslave all of its inhabitants, one superhero is not enough to stand in…
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The heart of a servant
Categories: UncategorizedDale Schiele sees value and worth in that segment of society that most people would rather shun. At age 60, he’ll be retiring from a 30-year career as director of…
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‘You have blessed us’
Categories: UncategorizedAfter spending seven years and $8 million responding along the Gulf Coast to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has formally closed its last project in the region.…
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Manigotagan Community Fellowship thriving
Categories: UncategorizedManigotagan Community Fellowship is thriving nine years after budget restraints led to the cutting of Mennonite Church Canada’s Native Ministry program.
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Migrant church grows new roots
Categories: UncategorizedJenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.
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Migrant church grows new roots
Categories: UncategorizedJenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.
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Church is . . .
Categories: ViewpointsEvery Sunday evening our church hosts a community dinner. The peculiar mix of human diversity and dysfunction is beautiful. They are, in a word, authentic. What you see is what…
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Reflections at the close of a ministry
Categories: ViewpointsTwelve years ago, on beginning as conference minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, I described a painting of a small boat on a large body of water with these words…
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‘This land is us’
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor five years I lived and worked in the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, with an organization supporting marginalized families living with HIV/AIDS. Although the agonizing combination of poverty…
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Dusty Bibles?
Categories: EditorialDusting off our Bibles for assembly? If indeed they are dusty, something has gone wrong for the people of the Book.
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Kraybill president-elect of MWC
Categories: Web FirstIt took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill president-elect of Mennonite World Conference at…
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Anabaptist Vision revisited globally
Categories: Web FirstIn three presentations at the Mennonite World Conference General Council meetings May 20-27, theologians and historians revisited the Anabaptist vision in a global context and sought input from meeting participants.…
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