Conversion as Restorative Justice?
As part of the annual Augsburger Lecture Series at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Ched Myers and Elaine Enns spoke on “The Personal and Political Dimensions of Conversion: Restorative Justice.” After studying…
About those Reimers
Categories: Web First – OpinionAbout Those Reimers vividly demonstrates how much of one’s life is determined by factors outside one’s control. Elizabeth Reimer Bartel begins her memoir, not with her birth, but with the Mennonites,…
Miller named MEDA regional director
Categories: Web FirstMike Miller, of Partridge, KS, has been named regional director of Resource Development for MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates). He will represent MEDA in the US Mid-West region from his…
New images of masculinity needed to stop violence against women
Categories: Web FirstChristians involved in church-based gender justice movements say that men must develop a sense of positive masculinity in order to counter increasing levels of violence by men against women. Citing…
Downsizing for service
Categories: UncategorizedA year ago, Dave and Karen Mast traded their 240-square-metre home in Ephrata, Pa., for a 12-metre-long travel trailer. Dave, 51, and Karen, 48, now travel across the eastern U.S.…
Promotional video for Whatever Happened To Dinner? created
Categories: ArtbeatA short promotional video about the new Herald Press book, Whatever Happened to Dinner?, can now be found on YouTube, courtesy of Wayne Gehman, a video producer at Third Way…
The Crash
Categories: UncategorizedBecause it’s like driving cold and restless I put my arms up and out and feel wind pushing me pushing me pushing me like an aching like a crumbling like…
Faith seeking understanding
Categories: UncategorizedSenior year in high school is generally busy, but Sarah Ens managed to pack more activities and achievements into Grade 12 than many do in a lifetime, combining academic excellence…
Lao church dedicates new worship space
Categories: UncategorizedWhy would several hundred people enter a storefront on Finch Avenue West in northwest Toronto late in the afternoon of Sept. 26? Not to get a haircut; that’s next door.…
Tree-planting project takes root
Categories: UncategorizedOn Nov. 9, a wagonload of 37 trees and an eager group of Carman Mennonite Church members armed with spades, including a massive tree spade powered by a tractor, showed…
What to believe?
Categories: ViewpointsThe daily bombardment of advertising from radio, billboards, newspapers, the Internet, fliers and TV leaves me discouraged and fatigued. Relentless messages urge me to cling to an insidious mantra, to…
God in the nooks and crannies
Categories: ViewpointsOn the first Sunday of Advent, many of us will hear the proclamation, “The Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour” (Matthew 25:44). Advent worship resources from The…
Thy will be done
Categories: ViewpointsPreparing your personal will in light of the Lord’s Prayer makes a lot of sense if you seek to do God’s will on earth as it is done in heaven.…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. In what ways are the people of your congregation involved with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)? Which generations are most involved? How high are the feelings of support and loyalty…
‘For such a time as this’
Categories: Feature ArticlesWorship is remembering, said the prophet Jeremiah. The past holds regenerative power. I’m a human being living in Canada today because of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC); some of my family…
MCC centrality questioned
Categories: Feature ArticlesMennonite Central Committee (MCC) is the largest and most influential Anabaptist organization in the world. It has nearly 1,200 workers and an annual budget of $82 million. Its reach extends…
Congregations, too, want ‘new wineskins’
Categories: EditorialIt’s too bad the New Wineskins consultations of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), that covered a four-year period and got Mennonites together from all over the world, didn’t “become a hot…
Canada not accountable for mining injustices
Categories: Web FirstKAIROS is deeply disappointed by the defeat of Bill C-300 at its third reading in the House of Commons, according its recent newsletter The private member’s bill, which would have…
Showalter resigns as missions president
Categories: Web FirstRichard Showalter has resigned as president of Eastern Mennonite Missions (EMM), effective in the fall of 2011. EMM Board Chair Joe Sherer says “Richard has been a strong and visionary…
International greeting of peace at Remembrance Day service
Categories: Web FirstTwo participants in MCC’s International Volunteer Exchange Program stood before a crowd of 600 people gathered here for a Remembrance Day service, and talked about peace. Wearing both the traditional…
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