Faith was their greatest weapon
Categories: ArtbeatBased on John Kiser’s 2003 book The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria, Xavier Beauvois’ 2010 movie, Of Gods and Men, was called “best perhaps the best…
Paetkau leaves Grebel in Good Shape
Categories: UncategorizedHenry Paetkau strides out of his office to resounding applause. After all, during his 8.5 years as president of Conrad Grebel University College, resident students have increased by 50 percent,…
MCC requests funds for East Africa drought response
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Central Committee (MCC) is appealing for donations in response to a critical drought and food crisis in East Africa, which has affected about 11 million people. MCC is responding…
Community ministry has church bustling with activity
Categories: UncategorizedVisiting Jubilee Mennonite Church on a Thursday evening one discovers upwards of 30 neighbourhood youths excitedly milling about waiting to be shepherded into vehicles for an evening at Birds Hill…
Entrusted with kingdom currency
Categories: ViewpointsRecently I met with an elderly gentleman who had just celebrated his 92nd birthday. In a humorous fashion he noted that he was losing his hearing, losing his eyesight and…
The ethics of flirting
Categories: ViewpointsThe guy on the bus was flirting boldly. First he locked a laser stare on the young woman in front of him. Then he shot her a wide smile. When…
When the people gather
Categories: ViewpointsThe gathering of God’s People is critically important for faith from an Anabaptist perspective. For Anabaptists, the community of faith is a unique and critical environment for experiencing the presence…
Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsLove people enough to see them change Re: “Sexual inclusivity motion to be presented at national assembly,” May 30, page 15. If there are those LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered,…
Quilt art depicts Mennonite-Aboriginal interaction
Categories: Feature ArticlesA fibre art depiction of the interaction between early Mennonite settlers and Aboriginal people in the Grand River valley was on display at the Mennonite Church Canada assembly July 4-8.…
“This is not the end!”
Categories: Feature Articles“We are the church!” cheered Willard Metzger, general secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, inviting progressively younger age groups to join with him in an ever-louder cheer. “Being the church is…
Is the end near?
Categories: Feature ArticlesTim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, together with Tyndale House Publishers, have unleashed a behemoth industry on the world, Christian and otherwise. The original twelve volumes of the Left Behind…
Assembly’s afterglow
Categories: EditorialMaybe it was the downright gorgeous summer weather before the heat wave swept into central and southeastern Canada. Maybe it was the powerfully inspired music led by Paul Dueck and…
Zacharias named interim camping director
Categories: Web FirstJustin Zacharias has been appointed Director of Camping Ministries for Mennonite Church Manitoba, as a half time, interim position that focuses on the development of a long range camping strategy…
On gender and genderlessness
There were two days last May when the same baby made the cover of my local newspaper, The Toronto Star (May 21st and 25th, 2011). The story was a provocative…
El Shaddai’s Story II
Part 2… The story progresses.
Yearning for Home
“By embracing what they had most wanted to avoid they gained what their hearts yearned for” – Yearning for Home The title captured my attention first. Wandering through the…
‘Just Peace’ chair launched at Amsterdam University
Categories: Web FirstThe academic Congress on Just Peace, held June 23 and 24 at the Free University of Amsterdam, marked the official launch of the university’s new Chair of Peace Theology and…
Former peace instructor dies in accident
Categories: Web FirstDekha Ibrahim Abdi, a former student and instructor in the Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) Summer Peacebuilding Institute, died Thursday, July 14, in Nairobi, Kenya, from injuries sustained in an automobile…
A transfer
I am fairly certain we were not supposed to see it, and I am even less sure I’m supposed to talk about it. But I feel it is a story…
MCC names directors of joint international program
Categories: Web FirstAs part of Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) restructuring process, program directors for MCC Canada and MCC U.S. have been named to jointly administer MCC’s international program. Willie Reimer, of Winnipeg,…
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