Kenyan church leaders say prayers for controversial law
Categories: Web FirstKenyan Christian leaders said prayers at a national ceremony for the promulgation of a new constitution, although they strongly opposed the law in the referendum campaign that led to its…
Express train carries Mother Teresa’s message across India
Categories: Web FirstMore than 25 000 people gathered at Kolkata’s Sealdah railway station for the launch of the “Mother Express” train, a highlight of the centenary celebrations of the birth of Mother…
Face to Face, Part II
I’d like to continue to add to last week’s post. There I made the point that, although we are certainly using technology more and more for communication, human beings will…
Hero or Heretic?
Do you know Bradley Manning? And no, he is not related to Preston. Some would argue he is a new American military hero. Some would argue he is a traitor.…
The Miracle of Rest
There’s something about being in God’s creation that seems to stretch time. I feel a sense of abundance and re-connection with the Creator of all. Time taken in rest, away…
To Africa and back, again
Categories: ArtbeatOn June 27, the Princess Twin Cinema in uptown Waterloo had to open up a second room to view the 2010 movie, Return to Africa: The Story of Elsie Cressman,…
MCC, MEDA collaborate to help Haiti’s homeless
Categories: UncategorizedHaitians left homeless by January’s earthquake are getting construction help from a collaborative venture of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA). MCC contributed $1.43 million to…
Tiefengrund Mennonite Church celebrates 100 years
Categories: UncategorizedMany people with ties to the Tiefengrund Mennonite Church near Carlton, Sask., came to relive the past, rejoice in the present and anticipate the future of this church community on…
Volunteer sees harm and good of Canada
Categories: UncategorizedJuan Raul Junay, 25, never tires of explaining how Canadian mining companies are affecting farming communities in his home country of Guatemala. “Mines give people jobs, but there is long-term…
Elders Trump Pastors
Categories: ViewpointsScads of cash is invested every year developing current and future pastors. This is important in so far as it shapes leaders and not managers, prophets and not puppets. Well-formed…
Mennonite treaty rights
Categories: ViewpointsTo attend church in Winnipeg is a right that arises directly from Treaty 1. The signatures of Aboriginal leaders and Crown representatives on that 139-year-old document give me, a non-Aboriginal…
Listening for church harmony
Categories: ViewpointsThe Wailin’ Jennys recorded a song on their debut album which included the following lines: “This is the sound of voices three / Singing together in harmony /Surrendering to the…
For discussion: August 23, 2010 issue
Categories: Feature ArticlesFollowing are questions for reflecting on and discussing the Canadian Mennonite stories on the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in 2010: “How complicit are Mennonites in Residential School Abuse?” Evelyn Rempel…
With God, all things are possible
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen you pass by aboriginal people lying in the gutters on skid row, do you think that they are just “drunk Indians who need to get a job”? Participants of…
MC Canada shares the pain of Indian Residential School legacy
Categories: Feature ArticlesDelegates to Mennonite Church Canada Assembly 2010 struggled with just how to confess systemic complicity in the Indian Residential School (IRS) survivors issue while not admitting to being directly abusive…
A first step towards healing
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs prayers began, a hush fell over the crowd and numerous people pointed to the sky. The great spirit, the eagle, hovered overhead. Surely it was a clear sign of…
How complicit are Mennonites in Residential School Abuse?
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs the Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners begin their five-year sojourn across Canada to hear the stories of those who suffered under the Indian Residential School (IRS) system, Mennonites may well…
Forgiveness to what end?
Categories: EditorialThe Lutherans have asked us to forgive them for their violent persecution of us in the 16th century, laying to rest, as the Mennonite World Conference reporter, Byron Rempel Burkholder…
Poplar Hill’s closure remembered
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe Poplar Hill (Ont.) Development School—the only Mennonite-affiliated school being officially looked at by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) currently making the rounds of Canadian communities—has been out of…
Face to Face
Let’s face it, we all use technology. The fact that we’re reading from others on a blog is evidence to that fact. Jeanette and I use email as our primary…
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