‘Leading in a connected world’
Categories: UncategorizedA broad range of ideas and opinions on the effects and uses of communications technology served as the focus of the 2011 Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) spring convention for…
‘With sadness and lament’
Categories: UncategorizedIn order to manage as yearly donations are decreasing, Mennonite Church Canada announced publicly on April 12 that, regrettably, it must reduce expenditures by terminating or altering positions and programs.…
The light that we have
Categories: ViewpointsMost regular readers of Canadian Mennonite now know that Mennonite Church Canada is adopting a smaller structure to reduce ministry expenditures by a half-million dollars. The question of “why” persists.…
The truth about marriage
Categories: ViewpointsI’ve imagined a column with this title for some time. While it sounds more than a little presumptuous, it is a topic to which I’ve given a great deal of…
Missing the mark
Categories: ViewpointsAs parents, many of us go to great lengths to ensure that our children and youths get the best of everything. We sign them up for hockey camps, music and…
Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsCall on whatever God you worship for comfort when grieving I was interested in “A heart for grieving people,” March 7, page 22, which featured Hank Friesen in his role…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How are conflicts in the faith community different from those in other organizations? Do you think such conflicts show a lack of a caring community? What is the most…
‘The ministry of war’
Categories: Feature ArticlesPastor Epp (a pseudonym), finding himself in conflict with his church board, became increasingly depressed. Sharing his emotional ill health with the board, they arrived at a compromise about the…
‘Habits of repair’
Categories: EditorialNot in my lifetime did I imagine that neuroscience and the Anabaptist construct of “community” would come together as a paradigm shift “away from the cult of the individual and…
Journeys of Healing and Wholeness
Thinking about trauma and how it impacts our lives, I begin to see it everywhere. Is everything a story of something whole becoming broken, and seeking to become whole again?…
Eanes to head MennoMedia
Categories: Web FirstRuss Eanes, director of finance and operations for Mennonite Publishing Network, will become executive director of MennoMedia on July 1. He will move to Harrisonburg where the head office of the…
Prayer and a Paper Shredder
I just read through my “morning pages,” looking for nuggets to blog about and ripping out pages to shred. “Morning pages” come from a class I took last year. It…
Mennonites are so hot right now
A while ago I was standing in the bookstore, staring at the magazine rack and found a few publications that dealt with the subject of writing. As I flipped through…
Justice and Love Collide
Yesterday evening I asked the Junior Youth to picture a world in which God’s one and only characteristic was love. “Chaos,” “Hectic,” “Covered in foam” were some of the answers.…
‘MennoMedia’ new name of merged organizations
Categories: Web First"MennoMedia" is the name emerging for the new agency that has been working its way through the approval process of Mennonite governing boards in recent months. The new name applies…
MEDA software goes bananas
Categories: UncategorizedIf you buy a bunch of fair trade or organic bananas, you may get a product with a hidden stamp from Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA). MEDA has helped co-operatives…
A clear statement about stuttering
Categories: ArtbeatIt is a hard thing to live with as much fear as Albert (Colin Firth) harbours. But it is especially difficult when you are a royal. For Prince Albert, later…
More than making a profit
Categories: UncategorizedPaul Tiessen answers the phone with a breathless rush of words. It’s 8:30 on a Wednesday morning and already he’s running to keep up. Tiessen, 56, owns Action Office Interiors,…
‘A light in the darkness’
Categories: UncategorizedOn the weekend of Sept. 25-26, 2010, the Kingcome River raged through the remote First Nation community of Kingcome. Floodwaters forced lifelong residents of the Pacific coastal village to flee…
Plowing the way for peace
Categories: UncategorizedA public stand for peace, peace between believers and peace with their neighbours all came to the fore during the Mennonite Church Saskatchewan annual delegate sessions last month in North…
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