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Categories: Feature Articles1. What has been your congregation’s experience with divorce? Does the church respond differently to divorce than it did in the 1970s? Has divorce lost its stigma? Are those who…
Divorce ministry resources
Categories: Feature ArticlesBecoming a National Church by Adolf Ens. CMU Press, Winnipeg, Man., 2004. Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt. Three Rivers Press, New York,…
Who gets the church … when a couple divorces?
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen a couple divorces, lawyers help decide how jointly held possessions are divided. There are many things, however, such as church attendance, that the couple are left to negotiate on…
Conversing in the ‘big tent’
Categories: Editorial“If we step back and review the letters to the editor in this magazine over the past several years, we generally find debates in the church and religion framed in…
A call for global everything specialists
I hate feeling at the mercy of other specialists. I am not thinking so much about my occasional visit to the doctor’s office. I am thinking particularly of the specialists…
Forty-seven tractors raise $34,000 for museum/mental health
Categories: Web FirstForty-seven tractors chugged their way through the Manitoba villages of Blumenort, Mitchel, Kleefeld, and then south and east of Steinbach ending up back at the Mennonite Heritage Village to raise…
German church gathering ends on note of reconciliation
Categories: Web FirstThe biennial faith gathering called the Kirchentag ended on June 5 after five days of theological and political discussions, concerts and a sense of reconciliation in a city devastated during…
Trusting for the Little Things
Sometimes it’s not the big things that shake me as much as the little things. The daily worries of house, car, money, food, clothes, family and community relationships. These are…
Brunk reflects on 22 years as seminary dean
Categories: Web FirstWhen George R. Brunk III joined the Eastern Mennonite Seminary faculty in 1974, little did he imagine that three short years later he would be named dean. But, in 1977,…
Canadian Mennonite 1st choice for national/local news
Categories: Web FirstDespite a small survey sample—only 215 out of more than 14,000 subscribers took the time to send back the two-page questionnaire in our Feb. 21 issue—it is clear that readers…
Secret Rouge Play
My wife and I had a baby recently. That is the biggest reason I haven’t been on this site to blog lately. Now that it’s been a month since his…
Larry Miller appointed to Global Christian Forum
Categories: Web FirstThe Global Christian Forum (GCF) has appointed Larry Miller to become its first full-time Secretary when he completes nearly 22 years as the General Secretary of the Mennonite World Conference…
The Narrative of Holy Violence
I agree that narrative is a major part of human reality. As Paul Loewen said here, the stories we tell make up our worlds. This can be “our” story which…
European institutions ‘more open than ever’ to church co-operation
Categories: Web FirstA senior ecumenist has welcomed growing co-operation between leaders of European institutions and churches, and predicted a growing advisory role for religious communities. “I think we’re seeing a greater openness…
Peace message closes Decade to Overcome Violence celebration
Categories: Web FirstParticipants at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC)—held in Jamaica last month to celebrate the end of the Decade to Overcome Violence—released a message expressing their unified experience of a…
At the corner of comedy and tragedy
About ten years back I was the caretaker of an apartment block that a church had renovated to provide low-rent stable apartments in Winnipeg’s West End. The visionary and work-horse…
Young and old, heart to heart
Categories: UncategorizedIn many traditional cultures, elders are older people who are revered as keepers of wisdom. In North America’s current youth-glorifying post-everything-online culture, older people are sometimes viewed as those who…
‘This is home’
Categories: UncategorizedAs Canada’s population ages at an ever-faster pace, Toronto’s St. Clair O’Connor Community may hold the key to keeping seniors independent longer, and teaching young people to respect their elders.…
Mennonite musicians ‘rule’ in Winnipeg
Categories: ArtbeatWriters with Mennonite roots, like David Bergen, Miriam Toews and Di Brandt, have long dominated southern Manitoba’s literary scene. Now, the community’s music scene is experiencing a similar sort of…
The smell of contentment
Categories: Uncategorized“There are some things I don’t understand,” opines Bruce Weber about his nephew, Tavis Weber. “The guy goes to school in music for four years and then he goes and…
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