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An uneasy neighbourhood
I have come to expect that the people I invite over to my house may feel uncomfortable doing so. This is not surprising as even until recently my street in…
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Kony 2012: Now that we have your attention
Categories: Web FirstNo sense just piling on. The Kony 2012 viral video has elevated awareness of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa to stratospheric heights. Over the past few…
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What are we working for?
One of the privileges of doing a Ph.D. is that you get plenty of time (I’m talking a decade) to think about the meaning of work. In our society, it…
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Report: Christians are half of world’s migrants
Categories: Web FirstChristians comprise half of the world’s 214 million migrants, those who have moved from their country of birth and are now living permanently in a different country, a new study…
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Mormons warned against baptizing Holocaust victims, celebrities
Categories: Web FirstAnne Frank, Simon Wiesenthal’s parents, Gandhi, Daniel Pearl, Elvis. Mormon leaders are fed up. On March 2, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ (LDS) governing First Presidency issued…
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Congolese explosion kills 200, destroys church
Categories: Web FirstA series of ammunition explosions in the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo on March 4 killed more than 200 people and destroyed a Roman Catholic Church.…
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Kathryn Sherer, longtime professor of music, dies
Categories: Web FirstKathryn Sherer, a pianist who instructed hundreds of students and together with her violinist husband performed around the world, died at home on Feb. 28 after a long illness. She…
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Reimer’s distinction between policing and just war questioned
Categories: Web First – OpinionIn this wonderfully crafted booklet, the last before his untimely death, Reimer gifts his readers with a succinct summary of a topic that has preoccupied much of Christian theology. The…
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A poem on occupation
Perhaps this is a little late for the Canadian context, as most (all?) of the occupy settlements in this country have been removed. But I thought I would share a…
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How to build interfaith relationships
Categories: UncategorizedAfter 9/11, many North Americans have viewed Islam with a sceptical eye, often encouraged by the media. In America, being Muslim often comes with a stigma, said Sheri Hartzler, executive…
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Nothing interesting ever seems to happen . . . until now
Categories: UncategorizedThe long grass in the field ahead of her hadn’t been mowed in months, maybe even years. Across the field was an old swing set, a boy swinging back and…
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A marriage is more than a wedding
Categories: UncategorizedMany weddings include diamond engagement rings, expensive wedding gowns, the bride being given away, extraordinarily expensive flowers and cakes, and spending way beyond one’s means in order to celebrate a…
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Family camp becomes family’s summer highlight
Categories: UncategorizedA week of Family Camp at Camp Squeah turned out to be a summer highlight for the Wiens family of Abbotsford, B.C. Maria Wiens, her husband Gerhard and children Jacob…
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Camp offers unique music experience
Categories: UncategorizedOntario Mennonite Music Camp is gearing up for its 29th year of music making. We’ve got a lot to offer! As always, we promise lots of music: piano, voice, winds,…
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A reason to celebrate…
Categories: UncategorizedAs we reach the 50th anniversary of Hidden Acres, it is abundantly clear that we have reason to celebrate! A camp still surviving would be reason enough, but a still-thriving,…
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Sagamace Bible Camp hopes to reopen this summer
Categories: UncategorizedNordheim Mennonite Church in the small community of Winnipegosis is Mennonite Church Manitoba’s most remote congregation. More than 275 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and far from other area church congregations,…
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Poet struggles with Mennonite identity
Categories: ArtbeatAncestral worship for Mennonite writers is a great temptation, Julia Spicher Kasdorf told a faculty forum at Conrad Grebel University College on Feb. 17 as part of the award-winning Mennonite…
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WISK women’s group bridges the age divide
Categories: UncategorizedCommittee meetings have a reputation for being necessary but tedious. But at Foothills Mennonite Church, Calgary, there is a standout exception to the rule in the Women Intergenerational from Seniors…
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On shaky ground
Categories: UncategorizedWhen the massive earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was one of the fortunate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to receive money for its relief work from the government…
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