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Scottish professor coming to AMBS
Categories: Web FirstJamie Pitts, Ph.D., will become assistant professor of Anabaptist studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, beginning July 1. Pitts currently serves as social media coordinator for the Centre for Theology…
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Living Harmoniously
I’ll admit it – I am a huge choir nerd. I absolutely love choir concerts and choral music in general. I don’t know how I came to be this way.…
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Mennonite Relief Sale Raises $335,000
Categories: Web FirstIt was titled “Underground Railroad” and it went for $6,700 as the top quilt of the event, pushing the total raised to $335,000 for the 46th Mennonite Relief Sale held…
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Nursing the soul
Categories: UncategorizedIt takes a special kind of person to be a nurse. It takes someone who will stay up all night rocking and singing to a screaming child. Someone like Carly…
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Amnesty International flags persecution of religious minorities
Categories: Web FirstEditor’s Note: See the major feature “This Land is Us” in the June 11 edition of Canadian Mennonite. Ethnic and religious minorities have been the targets of killings, torture and…
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A plea for descriptive and inquisitive intervention
In my last post I was pushing towards more care in how we articulate possible notions of faithfulness tied up in practices intimately linked with having a social awareness and…
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Nursing the soul
Categories: UncategorizedIt takes a special kind of person to be a nurse. It takes someone who will stay up all night rocking and singing to a screaming child. Someone like Carly…
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Young adults pursue walk with God in other Christian traditions
Categories: UncategorizedSometimes when people change churches or denominations, it is because they are looking for a more contemporary form of worship. For Jonathan Dyck, it was the opposite—one of the things…
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Crossing barriers in your own culture
Categories: UncategorizedOn March 24, I travelled with a group of 16 from the Calgary airport to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. We spent the next two weeks on a learning…
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Stouffville to consider peace site and plaque
Categories: Web FirstA task force was asked by the town council here Tuesday, May 15, 2012, to look into a proposal by the area’s peace churches to select a site and erect…
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Never Again
Categories: UncategorizedCharlie Clark, who grew up in the United Church tradition, listened carefully to the stories of his beloved Grandpa Ritchie on his fruit orchard in Naramata, B.C. The stories came…
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Forced to make ‘hard choices’
Categories: ArtbeatA new book by Jerry Buckland a professor at Menno Simons College, a Canadian Mennonite University institution in downtown Winnipeg, reveals how Canada’s banking system excludes the poor.
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Sing a new song, and sing it well: A tribute to Bruno Epp
Categories: UncategorizedFor Bruno Epp, school was an exciting place to be. Before he was old enough to attend the one-room Plum Hollow school next to his family's farm near Lena, Manitoba,…
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Radio preacher witnessed to God’s love
Categories: UncategorizedIt was a life-long dream of Frank “Carl” Peter Zacharias to be on the radio, said his daughter, Lisa Zacharias, in the eulogy she gave at her father’s funeral on…
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From a mustard seed . . .
Categories: UncategorizedForty years ago, four women in the southern Manitoba community of Altona opened a thrift shop to raise funds for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It was the beginning of a…
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Dusty Bibles?
Categories: UncategorizedDusting off the Bible? Does that mean we aren’t using our Bibles, or is it an overstatement meant to capture our attention? Perhaps it implies looking at scripture with new…
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Needed: Life specialists
Categories: ViewpointsAccording to Moses Znaimer, founder and CEO of ZoomerMedia Limited, “Everybody wants to live long, but nobody wants to be ‘Old’.”
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A hundred years from now
Categories: ViewpointsWill it matter a hundred years from now? This is a question I have come to ask myself when I’m tied up in knots about a family or work situation.…
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Senior blessing
Categories: ViewpointsWith a Canadian average life expectancy of about 80.7 years, many of us are—or will be—classified as “seniors” for the last third of our lifespan. Researchers on aging now claim…
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