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How much do I know?
How much do I know? Not very much, I suspect. While I was getting my B.A. I often felt that I was only learning enough to know how much I…
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Faith on the job
Categories: UncategorizedAsk Dustin Bueckert if he thinks incorporating his faith into his day job is important, and he will tell you yes. “It keeps you credible,” says Bueckert, who owns and…
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Leading a sustainable life
Categories: Uncategorized“And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and…
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Flash mob for peace
Categories: Uncategorized“Freedom is coming. . . . Justice is coming, oh yes I know.” While many people in the area and across Canada congregated to watch cannons being fired and soldiers…
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Manitoba MDS workers cook up a storm
Categories: Uncategorized“Creative cooks to produce three substantial, from-scratch meals per day for groups of five to 35. Successful candidates must be able to travel and remain away from home for up…
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MCC story examined from various angles
Categories: ArtbeatMennonite Central Committee (MCC) recently conducted a re-visioning process called New Wine/New Wineskins: Reshaping MCC for the 21st Century, to review various aspects of the organization. The essays in this…
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Doing well then doing good
Categories: UncategorizedThere is a difference between doing well and doing good in business, Grant Unrau says. Doing good is something that Stun Collective, a strategic design company, strives to do on…
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Ministries set to expand
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Savings and Credit Union recently gave a half-million dollars towards the new $12 million building project of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario at the latter’s Kent Avenue location. “We…
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Credit union gives $1 million gift to Conrad Grebel
Categories: UncategorizedSusan Schultz Huxman, the newly installed president of Conrad Grebel University College, called it a “transformative gift, the largest single gift in Conrad Grebel’s history.” And it was especially fitting…
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MC B.C. relinquishes title to Olivet Church
Categories: UncategorizedOne chapter of the Mennonite Church British Columbia story came to a close on Nov. 5 when delegates voted at a special meeting to return the title for former member…
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Letters to my sister, Part 3
Categories: ViewpointsIn this final instalment of a three-part series of back-and-forth letters, Faith Elaine Linton and Joyce Gladwell wrap up their conversation on homosexuality. (See Part 1 and Part 2.) My…
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Observing Advent
Categories: ViewpointsAs an archivist, I’m curious about history and trends, and changes in the way Mennonites live and worship. At this time of year, my curiosity turns toward Advent. How has…
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The give and take of compromise
Categories: ViewpointsIt was a difficult family matter and it called for our best conflict-resolution skills. In the end, we reached a compromise, a good solution, and the best we could manage…
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Readers write
Categories: Viewpoints‘As Amos as possible’ Re: “I’m a human being,” Sept. 5, page 12. Troy Watson’s column reminded me of a story in Jewish lore. It went something like this: Amos…
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‘I’m the Mother Jesus now’
Categories: Feature ArticlesChristmas came early at our house in Winnipeg this year. Most likely because now that we’re retired, my husband and I again have the opportunity of looking at the world…
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A happy Christmas morning
Categories: Feature ArticlesMy great-grandparents emigrated from Ukraine to central Kansas in 1874 and eventually purchased a farm. Towards the end of October 1894, the harvest was done and the year’s crop of…
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Singing ‘Silent Night’ in German
Categories: Feature ArticlesSometimes a Christmas experience stands out in memory simply because it is so different from any other. When Joani Neufeldt, nee Goerzen, thinks of a memorable Christmas, it is one…
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Lighting candles, telling stories
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen recalling a significant Christmas memory, Claire Ewert Fisher goes back some 30 years. The executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan, Fisher and her first husband, Wally Ewert,…
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Christmas in Nazareth
Categories: Feature Articles“I felt a very intense homesickness and wanted to go home [to Manitoba] for Christmas. Christmas is a very important holiday to me.” It was Christmas 2010 and Hinke Loewen-Rudgers…
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Thirty years of A Christmas Carol
Categories: Feature ArticlesThirty years ago this Christmas, my wife Annemarie and I began a Christmas tradition we’ve continued year after year, with variations. Our first child was in utero the first time…
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