Visits deepen connection between Ontario and southern Africa
Categories: Web FirstIt was a reunion of friends when Sibusiso Ndzimandze, a peace educator from Swaziland, stayed in the home of Gord and Lynne Ball during a recent 10-day visit to Ontario. …
Doing worship and mission after Christendom
Categories: ArtbeatAs Christendom weakens in Europe and North America, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both “mission” and “worship.”…
In gratitude of J.S. Bach
Categories: UncategorizedThe response to my request for an interview last September said it all: “Maggie and I are in Tuscany. . . . We’ve rented a small villa very near Cortona…
‘Can we trust the government?’
Categories: UncategorizedNearly a year after receiving an award from the Waterloo Region’s Greening Sacred Spaces organization, Hillcrest Mennonite Church in New Hamburg was the site for a Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)…
Peace Church identity explored at LEAD conference
Categories: UncategorizedWith the theme of “Being a Peace Church,” 88 church leaders and others interested in the topic met at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, Surrey, for the annual Mennonite Church B.C.…
Expanding ministries in MC B.C.
Categories: UncategorizedReports on a new church plant model and passion for native ministries highlighted the annual delegate sessions of Mennonite Church B.C., held at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, Surrey, on Feb.…
‘Before the watching world’
Categories: UncategorizedThe annual Mennonite Church Manitoba gathering did not bring forth momentous decisions, but it did cause the 147 delegates—representing 37 of the area church’s 50 congregations—to occasionally squirm uncomfortably, express…
‘And yet . . .’
Categories: ViewpointsI can best write about my hopes and dreams for the future of the church by reflecting on the past. During the last 29 years of pastoral ministry I have…
Solomon’s splendour revisited
Categories: ViewpointsWhen I think back to my early experience of Bible stories, I recall that King Solomon was “good,” he enjoyed God’s favour. Sure, Solomon had riches and power, but he…
Deliverance from somewhere else
Categories: ViewpointsThe story of Esther is stunning in its providential beauty and hope. Despite God never being named, the book bearing a Jewish Persian Queen’s Gentile name—a wonderful twist of biblical…
Readers Write
Categories: ViewpointsStory, photo stir up personal memories I read the Henry Dueck obituary (Nov. 15, 2010, page 25) with personal interest. Henry and Helga served the Eben-Ezer congregation and we had…
When you come . . .
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn addition to the usual Assembly 2011 activities, local organizers have planned a number of tours of Waterloo Region, including: Historic Ebytown. Engage the historical Mennonite presence in downtown Kitchener…
Meet me at the Grand!
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt is 1786. The first Swiss Mennonites have just arrived in Ontario, having travelled from Pennsylvania in Conestoga wagons. They crossed the mighty Niagara River by taking the wheels off…
Death as life with the saints
Categories: EditorialAt age 65, he was too young to die. For Stan Benner, my brother whom we just remembered this past weekend, it was especially incongruous. Living life at full throttle,…
Mennonite workers appeal for prayer for Burkina Faso
Categories: Feature ArticlesJeff Warkentin, Mennonite Church Canada worker in Burkina Faso, West Africa, has sent out a prayer appeal in light of continued political unrest in Ouagadougou, the capital city. Six years…
Huxman named Conrad Grebel’s 7th president
Categories: Web FirstSusan Schultz Huxman, director of the Elliott School of Comunication at Wichita (Kansas) State University, has been named the seventh president of Conrad Grebel University College. She begins her duties…
Stories and Worldviews, Part II
I touched on it last week – stories shape who we are. What do I mean by this? Nowhere do I find it more prevalent than in teenage society today.…
Stories and Worldviews
Sometimes I think we don’t give stories enough credit. I, for one, love stories. But by the time the public education system has had its way, people lose their imagination.…
Debating the existence of my caring about the debate over the existence of God
I recently had a conversation with an atheist that did not fit the narrow conception I had of how that should have gone. It was a helpful and constructive experience. …
First-name Last-name (Injury)
Recently we had a whole weekend of hockey here in Calgary. I attended three of the four games. An AHL game indoors on Friday, a game with NHL alumni outdoors…
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