Above the Underground best kept secret in Abbotsford
Categories: UncategorizedFor a little clothing store, Above the Underground is making a big impact on the lives of people in Abbotsford. And if Darlene Davy, the store’s manager, has her way,…
Our gifts can disclose avenues of hope
Categories: ViewpointsEvery year at this time I feel some anxiety. I’m talking about Christmas and it has to do with shopping. Well, to be exact, my anxiety has to do with…
The wrong question
Categories: ViewpointsThe silly season will soon arrive when you will hear, “What do you want for Christmas?” Endlessly creative lists of desires will follow. Others will go all high-horse and not…
What’s really worthy of our fretting?
Categories: ViewpointsI don’t think clearly when I’m anxious. I need to be reminded to slow down and breath deeply. Doing so creates the space wherein I can regain a sense of…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How many trees are planted annually in your community? Are they part of a community initiative? Who plants and waters them? How important is it to plant more trees?…
A tree is not only something that stands in the way
Categories: Feature Articles“Richard Branson has offered a large prize to anyone who invents a device that will pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. God already invented this device, and we call…
Where are our churches headed?
Categories: EditorialWhat will the typical Mennonite Church Canada congregation look like in three years? That’s the question on the minds of my fellow congregants at Waterloo North Mennonite Church, as we…
Guy Hershberger an under-appreciated church leader
Categories: Web First – OpinionLate in his life, Guy F. Hershberger reflected that 1944 had been a watershed year for the Mennonite Church. That year Hershberger’s book, War, Peace and Nonresistance, was published as…
Taiwan leaders do ‘wishing tree’ for mission renewal
Categories: Web FirstAt their annual assembly held in Taipei Oct. 31-Nov. 3, pastors and delegates from Taiwan’s 21 Mennonite churches committed themselves to renewal in mission. Much of the gathering’s business built…
Shortage of volunteers ends MCC relief sale in Winnipeg after 16 years
Categories: Web FirstFaced with a shortage of volunteers willing to fill leadership positions, the committee that organizes the popular and successful Winnipeg MCC Festival and Relief Sale has dissolved. Each year in…
Warkentin named executive director of MC Manitoba
Categories: Web FirstKen Warkentin, pastor of the Niverville Community Fellowship, has been named the new executive directorof Mennonite Church Manitoba, filling the vacancy left by Edgar Rempel who retired in June, 2010. …
Franklin My Dear, … (pt II)
It is probably clear from my last post that I don’t have a tonne of respect for the theology of Franklin Graham. While I probably agree with him on most…
Anabaptists inspired by Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization
Categories: Web FirstAt least 30 mission and church leaders represented Anabaptist-related communities at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization here, October 17 to 24. The gathering, which attracted 4,000 mission leaders,…
Money
It seems that Money is an interesting topic. Perhaps we could go on forever on this subject. David mentioned in his previous post about a Money Mart moving into his…
MSCU top 50 ‘best employers’
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU) has been named among the Top 50 Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada for the second consecutive year, moving to 19th from our…
Healing Memories: Lutherans/Mennonites
Categories: Web First – OpinionThe document that helped lay the foundation for the historic reconciliation in July 2010 between Lutherans and Mennonites is now available as a downloadable document. The 120-page Healing Memories: Reconciling in…
Tutu calls for opera boycott of Israel
Categories: Web FirstA Jewish group in South Africa has criticised a call by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu for the Cape Town Opera to cancel a performance in Israel in November.…
Christians and the Structure of Money – An Excerpt
I have been reading a very illuminating work by Franco Berardi entitled The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. The title will be somewhat misleading for a Christian audience…
Christians and the Structure of Money
Since Winnipeg has experienced (until now) an exceptionally warm October (still cracking double digits!) I have tended to wander a little outside during my lunch break. Yesterday I walked into…
Christians and Money
Should a church parking lot be full of $50,000 cars? Someone once said that it was wrong for Christians to own vehicles of that value. On the one hand, I…
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