On the road to Emmaus
Categories: ViewpointsIn Luke 24, the disciples on the road to Emmaus were confused and discouraged. They had trouble recognizing Jesus. In March of last year, I was a disciple on the…
What could he mean?
Categories: Viewpoints“Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid” (Mark 16:8). Fleeing death Forty years ago this June,…
Being a faithful church
Categories: ViewpointsIn deciding how to live as Christians, the church is called to rely on the Holy Spirit and use Scripture, prayer and the family of faith, as it determines responses…
Joyful generosity
Categories: ViewpointsIn his book Will Our Children Have Faith?, John Westerhoff argues that for future generations of young people and adults to develop Christian faith they will need more than Sunday…
Keeping vigil
Categories: ViewpointsOur recent journey began in darkness, continued through a day and into more darkness—a winter drive of 28 hours on roads that were at first snowy, then drenched with rain.…
Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsHealing and rebuilding happening under Isaaks’ leadership Re: “From a closed community to an open heart,” March 7, page 4. First Mennonite Church, Burns Lake, is fortunate to have the…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How was your spirituality formed as you grew up? In what ways has Mennonite spirituality been changing? 2. Do you feel that you encounter God through your current spiritual…
We don’t need to be more Anabaptist
Categories: Feature ArticlesOver thirty pastors and lay people gathered earlier this year to hear Arnold Snyder, retiring Conrad Grebel University College professor of history, give two two-hour long lectures on Anabaptist-Mennonite spiritual…
Spiritual formation resources
Categories: Feature ArticlesBooks A Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster A Mennonite Woman by Dawn Ruth NelsonDiscover Your Spiritual Type by Corinne Ware Dissident Discipleship by David Augsburger Experiencing God by Henry…
A way of life
Categories: Feature ArticlesHowever difficult this book is to read, Dawn Ruth Nelson has done the church a significant service in her study. Her effort to both diagnose the malaise in North American…
My journey into prayer
Categories: Feature ArticlesGrowing up in a family with an Evangelical Mennonite bent meant that I early on learned about going to church. While we had prayers at meals, bedtime and on special…
Encountering the living God
Categories: Feature ArticlesGod is a living God who encounters us in our daily lives.” So said Arnold Snyder, professor of history at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., during a Reformation Sunday…
My vision for Canadian Mennonite
Categories: Editorial“I have never heard the editor’s vision for the magazine,” said a reader when asked what she thought of Canadian Mennonite. The observation caught me up short. Assuming my vision…
Dishonouring the code
If you’re reading this article on this page, then you are probably far too pious to put five dollars into a pot and fill out an NCAA March Madness bracket.…
Rudy-Froese appointed professor of Christian proclamation
Categories: Web FirstAllan Rudy-Froese, Ph.D. candidate at Emmanuel College, Toronto (Ont.) School of Theology and a recent columnist for Canadian Mennonite, has been appointed professor of Christian proclamation at Associated Mennonite Biblical…
Computers needed for students in Honduras
Categories: Web FirstComputers are badly needed to expand a computer assisted learning program (CAL) initiated and supervised by Bryan Butler, director of Canadian Peacemakers International in Santz Cruz, Honduras. “We have had…
From Honduras: a fish story
Categories: Web FirstYesterday afternoon Manuel, Chepe and I were invited to a very special lunch in El Cipres. About nine months ago we regained possession of some property that was to be…
Mennonites and “Illegal” Refugees Part II: Civil Law versus Divine Law
Categories: Web FirstIt has been six months since I first suggested the refugee history of Mennonites bore certain similarities to other refugee stories of the present, including the much-maligned Tamil refugees who…
How you sell soul to a soulless people who sold their soul
This year I made a resolution to work through all of Kierkegaard’s writings. I am now about halfway through his Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and have come across his reflections on…
Celebrating the Power of Lent for 25 Years
Every year around this time, a lot of Mennonites across Canada do something very un-Mennonite, they give something up for Lent. The idea behind the modern Lenten fast, where people…
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