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From Our Leaders
Categories: ViewpointsThe Mennonite Church Canada assembly this summer in Waterloo, Ont., and delegates’ engagement with the Being a Faithful Church process have provided me with many reasons to be grateful: Clearly,…
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsMagazine makes for good ‘devotional’ reading In your June 13 editorial, “Conversing in the ‘big tent,’” you say that Canadian Mennonite is primarily about reporting and dialogue, and not a…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. Professional hockey is known for fighting and violence. Should this deter Mennonites from being avid hockey fans? Is hard hitting and fighting an essential part of the game? Is…
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New logo a distraction to talking about peace and violence
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt is nothing new to say that Winnipeg and southern Manitoba boasts an abnormally high concentration of Mennonites, although I suppose the Mennonites don’t boast. And given our historical and…
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Should Mennos cheer for fighter Jets?
Categories: Feature ArticlesCanadian hockey fans have a reason to celebrate. Fifteen years after the last NHL game was played in Winnipeg, Man., the league is coming back to the city. With other…
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Hearing young voices
Categories: EditorialAs a person old enough to be their grandparent, I have to be careful with my words about young people. Having grandchildren of my own, I have learned, sometimes the…
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Dead Sea Scrolls online after high-tech photo process
Categories: Web FirstThe Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the world’s oldest known biblical manuscripts, are now available online through a cooperative effort between the Israel Museum, where they are housed, and Google.…
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Anglican bishop allowed to remain in Jerusalem
Categories: Web FirstThe Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem and his family are celebrating after getting permission to remain in the city after months of legal and diplomat appeals. Rev. Suheil Dawani, Bishop of…
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‘Harvest of letters’ sought by Foodgrains
Categories: Web FirstIt’s harvest time! Across Canada, farmers are bringing in crops to raise money for Canadian Foodgrains Bank—money that will be used to provide food for people in the developing world…
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‘Fighting with the Lions’
Categories: Web FirstThe magnitude of what has just happened has scarcely sunk in among us,” said pastor Samuel Tripainao, after the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Chile (IEMCH) was accepted into membership of…
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Why Christians Need to Support Palestinian Statehood
Categories: Web FirstIn the next 24 hours, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be at the United Nations to request an official recognition of Palestine as an independent state with full statehood status…
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Young voter urges vote for NDP in Manitoba
Categories: Web FirstKelsey Hutton already knows who she is voting for when Manitobans head to the polls for this month’s provincial election: the NDP. For the past three weeks, Hutton has been…
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The gap in Mennonite literature
Since the 1960s, Mennonite novels and poetry have graced the Canadian literary scene. Writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Miriam Toews, Sarah Klassen, and Patrick Friesen, to name just a few,…
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El Shaddai’s Story IV
El Shaddai’s land is coming, and the people are moving that way. They enter the land, El Shaddai making it absolutely clear that it wasn’t through their power but through…
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Are youth pastors the problem?
Nothing, in my mind, can be healthier for a youth group than a church that cares about them and wants to know them. The first part is the easier one.…
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Is Food a Human Right?
Categories: Web FirstIs food a human right? Is the famine in east Africa just a symptom of something bigger? Does buying locally actually promote peace? How does a discussion on food relate…
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Do young adults want their own Christian community?
Categories: UncategorizedAna Loewen knows what it’s like to feel disillusioned with the church. As a teenager, a negative experience in the church she grew up in led her to seriously question…
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Random acts of kindness along the road
Categories: UncategorizedEarly last August when five young men pulled their RV into Brightwood Ranch in rural Alberta, they exchanged the adventure of ziplines and horseback riding for the opportunity to help…
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Jack Layton inspires young people to vote for change
Categories: Uncategorized“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”…
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Not just ‘frosting on the cake’
Categories: ArtbeatWhat does it mean for a faith-based organization to make faith and spirituality an integral part of its board meetings and planning? That’s the subject of Setting the Agenda: Meditations…
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