Chinese RSV to ‘unite Chinese Christians’
Categories: Web FirstThe head of the United Bible Societies has praised the newly released Revised Chinese Union Version Bible, which took 27 years to complete, as a uniting point for Chinese Christians…
Islam now part of Germany
Categories: Web FirstIslam is part of a modern, changing Germany, the country’s president, Christian Wulff, told the nation in an address on the 20th anniversary of the reunification of the once divided…
Let the barn-raising begin
Categories: Web FirstDavid Johnston began his first day on the job as Governor General by telling Canada about Mennonites, Blackberrys and the students that marked his time back in Waterloo Region. In…
Thousands of evangelicals crowd Jerusalem
Categories: Web FirstThousands of evangelical Christians from 100 countries have participated in a 30th “Feast of Tabernacles” event, organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, a group strongly supportive of a united…
Support grows for sand dams
Categories: Web FirstIn Mozambique, the use of sand dam technology, introduced by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), is spreading across the country, increasing people’s access to water and catching the interest of government…
Grebel takes the risk for its students
Categories: UncategorizedConrad Grebel University College has long tried to keep a blend of first-year and returning upper-year students in its residence program, but this year the balancing act became more complicated…
Why I didn’t ride a camel this summer
Categories: UncategorizedI had the good fortune this summer to spend five weeks in the Middle East and I didn’t ride a camel once. I flew to Istanbul, Turkey, and worked my…
Feds, province combine to fund new CMU science lab
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) students wanting to pursue a career in the field of science are one step closer to that goal thanks to a brand new, fully equipped science…
Media merger awaits denominational ratification
Categories: ArtbeatThe merger of Mennonite Publishing Network (MPN), the publishing ministry of Mennonite Church Canada and MC U.S.A., and Third Way Media, a department of Mennonite Mission Network (MMN), was approved…
A bleak picture of organized religion
Categories: ArtbeatI watched them to the very end, but Richard Dawkins was not in Agora’s list of credits, but he might as well have been. An “evangelical” atheist, Dawkins is known…
‘Prayer always works’
Categories: Uncategorized“Did the prayers work?” was Twila Lebold’s first question after her liberation treatment in India to relieve her multiple sclerosis (MS).
Census reforms will hurt Canada’s poor, claims Mennonite economics professor
Categories: UncategorizedWhile Vic Thiessen, Mennonite Church Canada’s chief operating officer, says “executive staff . . . are not aware of any concerns raised by MC Canada churches or constituents on census…
Bolivian Mennonites support services for addictions, abuse
Categories: UncategorizedAs the criminal investigation continues into allegations of gang rape in some Mennonite colonies in Bolivia, many local congregations see a need to reach out to people dealing with addictions,…
Good things happening among Bolivia’s Old Colony Mennonites
Categories: UncategorizedDespite tragic reports of sexual assault, alcoholism and drug use among Old Colony Mennonite communities in Bolivia this past year, there are many good things happening there, which offer hope…
Divinity detectives listen for the soul
Categories: ViewpointsThese are golden days on the Prairies as summer melds into autumn. Everywhere the eye gazes, it touches on gold. Fields of grain, cut or standing, are pale gold. The…
Forming pastors, together
Categories: ViewpointsA young adult in her last semester of college and considering pastoral ministry takes the initiative to invite each pastor in her community for coffee so that she can learn…
Are they worth it?
Categories: ViewpointsLife insurance considers their jobs more dangerous than munitions workers. Their profession has the second-highest divorce rate. Fifteen hundred of them leave their jobs each month. Their work has a…
The gospel according to Google
Categories: Feature ArticlesJust over 50 percent of Mennonite Church Canada congregations have their own websites. Next year that number will be higher. Guaranteed. And the year after it will be higher again.…
Discerning the ‘liturgical core’
Categories: EditorialWith music being so much a part of the Mennonite DNA, is it any wonder that the spectre of a new hymnal brings some trepidation to the congregational scene? Amid…
Conversion: As Scales Falling from the Eyes
Categories: Web FirstIntroduction I have chosen two texts to illustrate my sermon, which are not part of today’s lectionary selections: the conversion of Paul described in Acts 9 (vs. 10-19), and the…
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