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Meeting our neighbours
Categories: UncategorizedTwo neighbouring Winnipeg congregations, one Mennonite and the other Lutheran, decided to share their Sunday lunches and learn more about each other. In the process, they discovered that they had…
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Keeping the faith
Categories: ViewpointsIn the summer of 2010, my family and I experienced a history lesson that made us really think about what it means to be Mennonite. With my wife, Geraldine Balzer,…
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Saying nice things
Categories: Viewpoints“Will you say nice things about me at my funeral like you did at Jay’s?” my mother-in-law asked as she and I were driving alone in a car shortly after…
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Cool tool . . . but is it a motivation to give?
Categories: ViewpointsTools. Gadgets. Thing-a-ma-jigs. Whatsits. No matter what you call them, they are designed to help us do things more easily. Recently, I found an interesting tool from the Canada Revenue…
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Readers write: March 5, 2012
Categories: ViewpointsGoing beyond generalizations Re: “Yet another outspoken white man,” Nov. 14, 2011, page 10. Aiden Enns’s conundrum of tending to “favour the words of whites and males” is an intriguing…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. Do you know people like Sue and Bill in the story? Does your congregation provide Sunday school classes that appeal more to Sue or to Bill? Do you see…
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Essentials of the postmodern church
Categories: Feature ArticlesBe honest in everything. Be open about our ignorance. Be open to questions and discussion about anything. Care for the other (locally and globally), without hope of…
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Christianity no longer dominates western society
Categories: Feature ArticlesShould Christians in North America and Europe understand the Bible in fresh ways in an era when Christianity no longer dominates western civilization? Yes, says a British professor, Lloyd Pietersen,…
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Just what is ‘postmodern’?
Categories: Feature Articles“Staying for Sunday School, Bill?” “I’m staying, Sue, but not for Sunday school. I’m going to hang out with the ‘coffee drinkers’ in the kitchen. We have some really good…
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Martyrs Mirror as totem
Categories: EditorialMennonite poet and writer Julia Spicher Kasdorf wonders why Martyrs Mirror, the “big unreadable book,” as she calls it, is making a comeback in her generation of young Mennonites. …
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Keeping the “Commun’ity in Communion
This past weekend I attended the MCM Leadership Seminar with other pastor’s in our province. Willard Metzger was our speaker and in his opening session he recapped some Anabaptist history…
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Editor connects with more than 100 young voices in Saskatchewan
Categories: UncategorizedAfter more than six months of reporting on events and issues pertaining to young adults, Canadian Mennonite made a pledge to connect with young voices from all over Canada in…
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On sex and strangers
I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been giving a lot of thought to questions about sexuality since the Mennonite Church Canada Assembly last summer, where it was decided…
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Depression: Let’s Talk
“Clinical depression is not just unhappiness, it’s a mood disorder, but more than half of us still believe it is a weakness not a sickness.” – Michael Landsberg in Darkness…
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On emptiness
In the house that I am living in we have been trying to find times where we can worship together. When this group of people came together we were looking…
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Going all the way
Categories: UncategorizedLove, sex, and baptism are seemingly unrelated topics, but according to Irma Fast Dueck, they each involve a deep commitment. Roughly sixty youth, youth pastors, and youth sponsors gathered on…
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Facebook can help church stay connected
Categories: UncategorizedWhen a church member suffered a medical emergency in Winnipeg, Man. where his heart stopped for a full 45 minutes, many members of Level Ground Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C.,…
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Indigenous youth report to the United Nations
Categories: UncategorizedSix indigenous youth from across Canada travelled to Geneva, Switzerland this month telling the United Nations that Canada needs to end inequalities experienced by aboriginal children. The UN Committee on…
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Mennonites can dance
Categories: ArtbeatAt the age of 17, dancer Peter Quanz of Wilmot Mennonite Church was already living in Winnipeg on his own. Before heading to Winnipeg, he commuted to an arts high…
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Nazareth service experience awesome!
Categories: UncategorizedKayla Thiessen bubbles with enthusiasm when she talks about her short-term service experience through Mennonite Church Canada in Nazareth. The University of Manitoba graphic design student, who attends Steinbach (Man.)…
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