Art exhibit explores the unjust food systems of society
Categories: ArtbeatThe right to food is a non-issue for many Canadians. In fact, many people in the western world take food for granted. From a faith perspective, many feel that, although…
Wenger Shenk inaugurated as seminary president
Categories: Uncategorized“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb,” the congregation called out, led by Sara Wenger Shenk in her inaugural address as the…
Remembering peace
Categories: UncategorizedWearing both the traditional red poppy and the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) alternative peace button, Ying Ying Wang from China and Santiago Gomez from Colombia—participants in MCC’s International Volunteer Exchange…
‘Reaching the unreached . . . should be the focus of the church’
Categories: UncategorizedAt least 30 mission and church leaders represented Anabaptist-related communities at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in South Africa this fall. The gathering, which attracted 4,000 mission leaders,…
Mourning for a lost Christmas
Categories: ViewpointsI’m not good at faking my way through situations. That goes for Christmas, too. I can’t pretend that the tender mystery of Emmanuel—God with us—somehow rises above the glittery kerfuffle…
Return home a different way
Categories: ViewpointsThe most unsettling participants in the “Christmas story” are the most biblically literate. Asked by magi where the king of the Jews was to be born, King Herod turns to…
From edge to centre
Categories: ViewpointsSomewhere along our journey with youth ministry I believe many of us took a wrong turn. We headed in a direction that had us increasingly isolating our youths from the…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. The Christmas season is a time of giving. How does your congregation and/or community get involved in giving during this season? What are we saying when we give gifts?…
What a difference a year makes
Categories: Feature ArticlesChristmas will be different this year for Winnipeg’s Kathy Okolita. She stands in her newly renovated home surrounded by 18 people who have come to offer a house blessing. She…
Alternatives to a ‘Consumer Christmas’
Categories: Feature ArticlesMany people spend their evenings and weekends leading up to Christmas scouring the local mall for the perfect gifts for their loved ones, planning their Christmas feast or decorating their…
Israeli development thwarts peace on earth
Categories: Feature ArticlesEmbedded in the Christmas story is God’s desire for peace on our planet. Luke announced that “peace on earth” was the theme that the angelic choirs sang over the skies…
Advent: Waiting for the surprises
Categories: EditorialTwo Advent themes should bring us to our feet this season: surprise and waiting. In our hurried, harassed lives, we are probably prepared for neither. With WikiLeaks heaping a deluge…
Wikity, Wikity Whack
Throughout the history of email there have always been people who think every funny thing they read should immediately be forwarded on to their friends. While this habit can quickly…
African inter-faith Noko calls for protest over Ivory Coast
Categories: Web FirstThe president of an African Inter-faith peace group has called on religious leaders to protest over Ivory Coast’s presidential election dispute, in which two politicians have been sworn in as…
Hong Kong Christian groups join in honouring Nobel laureate Liu
Categories: Web FirstAbout 1000 people in Hong Kong joined a celebration co-organized by Christian groups to honour imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in a celebration coinciding with the Nobel ceremony…
Nigerian religious leaders in UK to talk about environmental crisis
Categories: Web FirstFaith groups have a key role to play in stemming the environmental crisis in Africa, says an organizer of meetings on possible violence connected a looming Nigerian ecological disaster. …
‘Rattling everyone’s paradigms’
Categories: Web FirstWalking in each other’s theological shoes for a day, professors from their respective seminaries in Waterloo, Ont.—Conrad Grebel University College and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary—engaged in a bit of humour by…
Generations
Today I went caroling with a group of about twenty undergraduates at the local retirement home. It was fun to sing, many of the residents sang along, and there were…
Christmas
Christmas comes soon, doesn’t it? I took a picture of my advent calendar yesterday with 8 windows open. There aren’t that many days left until Christmas. Perhaps it’s a part…
Planting the Seed of an Idea
This weekend, the campus movie theatre showed “Inception.” An entertaining story about technology allowing entry into another person’s dreams, the film strangely reminded me of the Advent story. In the…
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