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Christopher Hitchens, atheist to the end, dies at age 62
Categories: Web FirstBoth opponents and advocates of religious faith are mourning the death of author, polemicist, and atheist Christopher Hitchens, who died Dec. 15 after a long battle with esophageal cancer. Though…
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In Canada, Jewish, Muslim comedians joke about Christmas
Categories: Web FirstChristmas can be a lonely time for non-Christians in North America. Jews have Hanukkah — and traditionally go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day. Muslims, well, can always go to…
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Majority of faculty at Mennonite colleges, high schools are Mennonites
Categories: UncategorizedMost Canadian Mennonite colleges, universities and high schools have a majority of Mennonite or Mennonite Brethren professors or teachers, whether or not they have policies regarding the number of faculty…
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Why I am a Mennonite
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Daniel Eggert was growing up in Edmonton’s First Mennonite Church, there were 12 other people his age in Sunday school. From that group, only he and one other person…
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Where are the Christians?
Categories: UncategorizedFear will control our lives if we let it. And fear is the name of the game in Israel-Palestine. In November I joined a team of people from North America…
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The attraction of walking
Categories: ArtbeatIn 1985, around 2,500 people walked the Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage route in northern Spain. Ten years later, the number jumped tenfold. The year that I did it,…
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A lifetime of joyful service
Categories: UncategorizedIn 1979, Don Baergen was an orderly in a seniors home when a fellow church member tapped him on the shoulder. Would he consider a half-time salary/half-time volunteer position at…
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Metzger’s address on climate justice warmly received
Categories: UncategorizedWhether the scientists are right or wrong about climate change is no longer the issue, Willard Metzger, Mennonite Church Canada’s executive director (formerly general secretary), told about a dozen senators…
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Midwives of a new era
Categories: UncategorizedJohn Borthwick is calling on church leaders to see themselves as midwives and chaplains. One of three presenters at the Oct. 22 think tank workshop, “Leading the church in a…
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No transformation without God
Categories: ViewpointsRecently, our small group embarked on a series entitled “Exploring spirituality through powerlessness.” The intent of this group is to take a look at a 12-step program—designed originally to be…
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The church is like plastic wrap
Categories: ViewpointsEver been pulled like plastic wrap over a warm roast pan? I was cleaning up after a great meal prepared by my beautiful wife. The roast pan had some leftovers,…
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Five thoughts on queers and messy church
Categories: Viewpoints1. The church is wounding people deeply based on sexual orientation. This is not what God wants. We must do better. 2. As a university student in 1993, I attended…
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsLetters in response to sexuality issues Re: “There is hope for those who want to leave the gay lifestyle” letter, Oct. 17, pg. 7. Yes, there is hope for gay…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. What experience have you had with the King James Version? Historically, how was it used in your congregation? How familiar do the words of the KJV sound to you?…
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Creation history of the King James Version
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe King James Version was not the first attempt at an English translation of the Bible. John Wycliffe, together with others, had already published a complete English Bible by 1382,…
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A Bible meant to be read with your ears
Categories: Feature ArticlesHave you heard the Bible recently? Not read it, but listened to it—heard the words of Scripture, not just seen them on the page. We don’t hear the Word of…
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What about proof-texting?
Categories: EditorialAn Ontario pastor raised the question of not defining proof-texting and challenged my guideline of wanting only “new information” when calling for a “reasoned discussion” on sexuality, in his letter…
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On Dylan
I did not like Bob Dylan the first time I heard him. Or the second. Or the third. What I heard when I listened to Dylan was simplistic chord structures,…
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Irony and challenge in Durban
Categories: Web FirstFor Mennonite Church Canada Executive Director Willard Metzger, the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa was an eye-opening experience that began with a twist of irony.…
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Another tree planting in Luther Garden signals unity
Categories: Web FirstOn a cold, blustery day in the German town of Wittenberg, Bishop Yuri Novgorodov of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan patted down the dark soil at the base of…
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