I and II Timothy, Titus have practical lessons for life today
Categories: ArtbeatImmoral behaviour, competing religious and ideological beliefs and philosophies, church members and leaders who fail to live up to the high standards of the gospel: It sounds like what’s happening…
Getting to know Menno
Categories: ArtbeatIf there is one thing Mennonites should know a lot about, it’s Menno Simons, the 16th century Anabaptist leader who gave their church its name. Myron Augsburger worries that the…
Dark Night leads to stronger faith
Categories: ArtbeatHave you ever felt abandoned by God? You pray, go to church and read the Bible, but God seems so far away. What’s going on? What’s happening, says Daniel Schrock,…
A ‘timeless’ message about war and peace
Categories: ArtbeatJohn Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace. But before Yoder, there was Guy F. Hershberger, whose reflections on war, peace and violence not only helped…
Addressing the issue of extreme poverty in Canada
Categories: UncategorizedOf the 192 member countries of the United Nations, Canada ranks fourth on its Human Development Index, but Canada’s First Nations rank 68th. According to Edith Von Gunten, who co-directs…
Suderman proposes a ninth Millennium Development Goal
Categories: UncategorizedThere are currently eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were agreed to by 192 United Nations member states in 2000 and that are to be achieved by 2015. But according…
Comfortable being rural
Categories: ViewpointsOn a cold, wet Sunday morning, May 5, 1935, Arthur Roth, his wife Melinda, and his mother, Mary Schrog Roth, made their way to church in East Zorra Township in…
‘The river sings to me a song’
Categories: UncategorizedThe yellow warbler flits among the trees back of the patio and main building at RiverSong as Susan Pries takes a break from providing meals and snacks to a daylong…
From ‘Imagine’ to ‘Material Girl’
Categories: ViewpointsAs a fledgling whipper-snapper the great inherent threat to my young soul was said to be the subliminal messages being “backmasked” into music that would hoodwink me into becoming morally…
Asking the right questions
Categories: ViewpointsI spend a lot of time pondering leadership these days. I see the word everywhere. I suspect I could take a course on leadership every weekend of the year in…
For Discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How much does your congregation support Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)? Has this changed over the years? What MCC projects have you participated in? How satisfied are the people of…
MCC has ‘a place for everyone’
Categories: Feature ArticlesHere are multiple stories of how Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) began. One tells of Clayton Kratz, a young man who went to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, to attempt to distribute…
A leader for these times
Categories: EditorialBecause we are a priesthood and not a hierarchy, this space is sparing in calling special attention to any one of its “priests.” But the occasion of the closing session…
A Jewish Jesus in occupied territory
Categories: ArtbeatIn 1633, the people of Oberammergau in Bavaria (now part of Germany) pleaded with God to save them from extinction. Not only had the Black Death—or plague—taken its toll in…
The decline and fall of a legend
Categories: ArtbeatAs a boy, I couldn’t get enough of the Robin Hood legends. I read every book I could find on the subject and I loved the 1938 Errol Flynn film.…
MDS responds quickly to southern Manitoba flooding
Categories: UncategorizedOn May 29, 10 centimetres of rain fell in an hour on the small border town of Emerson. By the end of the day, more than 15 cm had come…
Facing ‘a new enemy’
Categories: UncategorizedMaurice Phillips, a commercial fisher of Plaquemines Parish, La., took a group of disaster management leaders out on a small boat to “see the oil” on June 7. This is…
An ‘eloquent’ visitor
Categories: UncategorizedWork at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario office and warehouse in Kitchener came to a halt on June 14, when Michaëlle Jean, the Governor-General of Canada, dropped in for…
‘To be in harmony with all people’
Categories: UncategorizedIn the town of Aberdeen, Sask., population 600, a small but committed group of Mennonites that call this place home gathered together in early June to celebrate 100 years of…
No longer ‘sinful or strange’ to each other
Categories: UncategorizedA century-and-a-half after the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church and General Conference (GC) Mennonite Church divided, Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) held a “Celebrating 150 Years” event on June 5, in an…
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