Tension mounts ahead of Sudan vote
Categories: Web FirstA former general secretary of the World Council of Churches has warned that tension in Sudan ahead of a plebiscite on independence for the south of Africa’s biggest country could…
Dancing Through Thistles in Bare Feet
Categories: Web First – OpinionThis is a jewel of a book: its structure, seamless use of metaphor, the powerful quest motif and the humour make it a captivating and stimulating read. Although the title’s…
Public Safety minister’s refugee parents came to Canada just before doors shut
Categories: Web FirstThere's a global recession and Canada's economy is not immune. Shiploads of strange, foreign refugees — economic migrants and oppressed minorities — have been landing on our shores, fleeing civil…
Canadians feeling ‘blindsided’ in MPN/Third Way media merger
Categories: Web FirstComing down off the mountaintop of excitement about a proposed merger of Mennonite Publishing Network and Third Way Media, members of MC Canada’s Formation Council looked the issues squarely in…
Meat canning ‘won’t work’
Categories: Web FirstIn 1997, when Martin Rahn heard that volunteers in an Ontario town were making plans to host a portable meat canner, his first thought was: “I need to stop this.”…
Canadian court urges case-by-case decisions on face veils
Categories: Web FirstA Canadian court has urged compromise when considering whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear veils while testifying in court. The Court of Appeal in the province of Ontario…
WCC leader reaches out to evangelical Christians
Categories: Web FirstThe head of the World Council of Churches has reached out to a global gathering of Evangelicals saying Christians of different traditions need to learn from each other to participate…
Leaf Blowers
Leaf blowers are everything that is wrong with this world. Let me back that statement up. Jeanette and I are spending our first Fall in a house. When we lived in…
Franklin My Dear, …
The first time I ever visited the Sky Dome, I mean Rogers Centre, it was for a Billy Graham crusade. I walked right onto the field, ran onto the bases,…
Film on effects of Afghanistan war clinches human rights award
Categories: Web FirstA documentary film exploring the consequences of war in Afghanistan, “The Garden at the End of the World”, has earned a 2010 human rights award from two global Christian communication…
MCC’s children magazine a treasure in Bolivian home
Categories: Web FirstEleven-year old Franz Neufeld tries to hold back his tears as he talks about a Bible story that his mother reads to him and his siblings. It is the story…
More prisons won’t improve public safety: MCC
Categories: Web FirstSpending billions on more prisons in Canada won’t create safer communities, says a spokesperson for Mennonite Central Committee. “Spending more money on bricks and mortar will not create safer communities,”…
To remember is to work for peace
Categories: Web First“To Remember is to Work for Peace” is the theme for the annual Fraser Valley Arts and Peace Festival, which runs at various locations in Langley and Abbotsford from Nov.…
Visit Europe the Mennonite way
Categories: UncategorizedStarting next summer—the year of celebration for Dutch Mennonites—Mennonite Heritage Tours will offer four new heritage tours for Mennonites from all over the world. Mennonite Heritage Tours is based in…
Consider travelling with a group
Categories: UncategorizedWhile we each appreciate different aspects of travel, many people assume travelling with a tour group is not for them. They associate tour groups with older people or a lack…
Let the dialogue on sexuality ‘break forth’
Categories: ArtbeatThose who believe in a creating God must acknowledge that a bodily existence—our sexuality—and our spiritual essence—our souls—are both part of God’s creative action in bringing forth into existence human…
Helping Christians talk about sexuality
Categories: ArtbeatAnne Krabill Hershberger is editor of the second edition of Sexuality: God’s Gift (Herald Press, 2010). In July, she spoke to John Longhurst of Mennonite Publishing Network about why it’s…
The train that never was
Categories: UncategorizedRoss Shantz, chair of the New Hamburg (Ont.) Mennonite Relief Sale, is an ardent model train enthusiast, so when he and his wife Sandra were on holiday in Phoenix, Ariz.,…
‘Swimming against the current’
Categories: UncategorizedWhat does peace look like? “In my context, working for peace is to swim against the current,” writes Alejandra Romero, a Colombian who helps school children with conflict resolution in…
Small company, big story
Categories: UncategorizedThe 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Mennonite Mutual Insurance Co. (Alberta) Ltd. passed in understated Mennonite fashion, with cake and fellowship at the company’s annual meeting. The quietness…
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