Healing memories, reconciling in Christ
Categories: UncategorizedHistorical records are shaped by the perspectives of those who write them, but perspectives that clash can cause centuries of pain. On July 22, 2010, an apology from Lutherans for…
The Prince of Peace is Jesus Christ
Categories: UncategorizedGrace Mennonite Church is engaged in an ongoing and earnest conversation about the Anabaptist peace position. Arnold Hildebrand, a church member and facilitator of a recent book study on the…
The changing look of ‘peace’
Categories: ViewpointsAs a Mennonite, peace is a part of my everyday vocabulary. I know it is a good thing—Jesus is the Prince of Peace after all—and I know that peace is…
Treasure in clay jars
Categories: ViewpointsThis fall, a controversial exhibition in Winnipeg, Man., grabbed my attention. After weeks of plodding mindlessly past graphic advertisements with bold letters announcing “Bodies: The exhibition,” I belatedly clued in…
Things I know
Categories: ViewpointsI was chatting with friends about the good old days. We recalled becoming independent adults and making our own decisions. We laughed as we reminisced about the wise decisions as…
Gifts of the church for a New Year
Categories: ViewpointsHow do we understand the “new” in this New Year? That which is new isn’t always new, at least in the sense of having never existed before. Anyone who has…
Embarrassing gratitude
Categories: Feature ArticlesA woman—a good family friend—pours perfume worth $25,000 on Jesus’ feet at a dinner party held at her house in his honour. She removes her head scarf, shakes her hair…
The past as prelude
Categories: EditorialAs a people of hope, what should we, as a Mennonite faith community, expect on the road ahead in 2011? If the past is prelude, as the adage goes, there…
Top 5 Books of 2010
Top 5 Books of 2010 Worthy of Mention: Faith Begins at Home – Mark Holmen Blood of Heaven – Bill Myers 5. Have a Little Faith –…
Stereotypes Written Over with Faces
Last summer, we were camping at Crabtree Falls in North Carolina. It was a new experience for us. We’d been through the state before, but had never spent a night…
6 Ideas for a Biblical Resolution
I remember the first time I heard of the idea of reading the Bible all the way through. It seemed weird that this book I had only read verses or…
Recent Korea Reflections
Recently, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about “things” in Korea. It’s hard to know what to think about the recent violence on the peninsula from the English and…
Boxing Day Sales
I have never gone shopping on Boxing Day. I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps in some families it is tradition. In mine it wasn’t, and I never showed any interested…
Vietnamese Mennonite group clashes with authorities again
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada has become aware that on December 14th, the Ho Chi Minh church buildings and home of Mennonite house church Pastor Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang were demolished at…
A Successful Resolution
So as the end of the year approaches it seems that I will successfully live out my promise not to eat at McDonald’s this year. The odds were against me…
Remembering Glen Lapp
Categories: Web FirstTwo months after MCC worker Glen Lapp and nine other aid workers were killed in rural Afghanistan, Lapp’s father, Marvin, brother Jerry and cousin Joe were welcomed in the guesthouse…
Dutch synod tries to heal centuries-old Protestant splits
Categories: Web FirstA gathering to improve relations between the many Protestant denominations in the Netherlands has taken place on the site of an earlier historic synod, though any idea of complete church…
Lutheran leader seeks Holy Communion agreement with Pope
Categories: Web FirstThe president of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Munib Younan has said before meeting Pope Benedict XVI that their churches should issue a common statement on Holy Communion to mark…
Book Review – Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy
Ronald E. Osborn. Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith Violence, and Theodicy (Cascade Books, 2010). Osborn’s short collection of essays is one of the more eclectic publications I have read…
Outsider explores self in Hutterite community
Categories: Web First – OpinionNightwatch is a gentle and introspective book, written by an outsider who has chosen to live within a Hutterite community. This outsider perspective reveals different facets of the culture and community…
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