Living your faith
My life is about to change in what I hope is a drastic way. I am about to move into a house with five other people. This in and of…
Beauty: a peace issue
What would you say if I told you that beauty is a peace issue? It seems bizarre, I know, but I’ll try to explain how I got to this point.…
Publishing building sold in Scottdale, Pa.
Categories: Web FirstThe former longtime Mennonite publishing building in Scottdale, Pa., will re-open as a church facility. MennoMedia, the newly merged church agency based in Harrisonburg, Va., sold the landmark building to…
Mennonite World Conference begins conversation with 7th Day Adventists
Categories: Web FirstRepresentatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Mennonite World Conference held the first of several theological conversations June 28 to July 1, 2011 at the world headquarters…
Lemonade for international aid
Categories: UncategorizedMany people can identify with being hungry, but cannot understand what it is like to be among tens of thousands who are on the verge of death because of hunger,…
Emerging adulthood . . . or ‘screwed generation’?
Categories: UncategorizedFrom The New York Times to the Mennonite Brethren Herald, emerging adulthood has become a topic worthy of many printed pages and even more blog posts. As increasing numbers of…
Two religious giants die within one week
Categories: Web FirstTwo religious giants died within one week of each other recently. One was liberal theologian and mentor Gordon Kaufman, 86, a Mennonite who rose through the academic ranks at Harvard…
Capturing history through song
Categories: UncategorizedLike rings on a tree, or carbon layers in ice, Elise Epp hopes that when people look back on her music it will mark the events of her generation. “Saying…
A celebration of food and faith
Categories: ArtbeatRecently I stood in line-ups for two different kinds of “Mennonite” foods. In one line I waited, along with many others, for my order from the annual Laotian Mennonite spring…
Building a go-kart . . . and a friendship
Categories: UncategorizedAlfred Driedger and Andrew Dyck share a love of fixing things, and the fact that they are separated by 60 years or so only makes repair work more interesting. This…
MCC expands response for East Africa drought
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has surpassed its initial target of raising $1 million for the East Africa drought and is now expanding its response to the continuing crisis in Kenya,…
Canadian Christians invited to Fast for Change
Categories: UncategorizedOn Oct. 16, James Kornelsen wants people to fast—for change. “Fasting is a way to change yourself, change your relationship to God, and change the world,” says Kornelsen, who coordinates…
Canadian Foodgrains Bank commits $7.8 million to East Africa drought response
Categories: UncategorizedTwo new projects supported by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada and the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee—Canadian Foodgrains Bank member agencies—have been added to the Foodgrains Bank response to the…
Beyond Ourselves: Partners in China
Categories: UncategorizedAs a young seminary graduate in 1995, Timothy Zhang became pastor of the Anjing church. With few material resources, a common reality in rural church settings where most families are…
A hard look at hunger
Categories: ViewpointsOnce again, famine plagues the headlines and swollen bellies afflict the airwaves. The Horn of Africa is hungry. Babies are dying. Statistics are swirling. And the rest of the global…
An earthy wisdom
Categories: ViewpointsAbout 80 percent of Canadians are city-dwellers. Despite the expanse of our nation, slightly more than a third of us dwell in only three metropolitan areas: Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.…
Two gifts for our youth
Categories: ViewpointsWhenever a congregation gathers to look ahead and contemplate its future, you can be sure that questions about the youth will be raised: Where are they? How can we keep…
Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsHomosexuality: Not what God intended Re: “Sexual inclusivity motion to be presented at national assembly,” May 30, page 15. I realize that the matter of sexual inclusivity within the Mennonite…
Heeding the call
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs one amateur Mennonite historian likes to point out, the only real Mennonite name is Menno Simons. From there on down through history, the rest of the family names are…
A new Mennonite archetype
Categories: EditorialI have never met César García, but I am impressed with his story as told by Meetinghouse freelancer Kathy Heinrichs Wiest on page 4. García is the general secretary-elect of…
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