Women and girls the solution to development work
Categories: UncategorizedA record number of guests came to the annual dinner of the Waterloo chapter of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) last month to hear keynote speaker Helen Loftin give an…
Credit union opens its doors to non-Mennonites
Categories: UncategorizedIt was standing room only at the 46th annual general meeting of the Mennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU) last month in Kitchener. Many were there to discuss a board…
Crisis leads to faith
Categories: UncategorizedWhen a crisis hit Len Bergen seven years ago, his life began to spiral downward. Now seven years later, he sees how God did not abandon him, but led him…
The dangerous question
Categories: ViewpointsWhen I popped the engagement question I was pretty sure what the answer would be. I was 100 percent sure she was the one for me and 99 percent sure…
Rebutting ‘a pernicious message’
Categories: ViewpointsMy growing faith in Jesus has led me to see annual assemblies as increasingly blah. This feels inappropriate to say, yet necessary. By my actions, I declare my commitment to…
Reflections on leadership
Categories: ViewpointsAs I think back on my seven years of leadership in Mennonite Church British Columbia, I am filled with thanksgiving and hope at what has transpired and what I have…
How green is my MCC?
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhile Will Braun applauds Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) for its commitment to shrink its carbon footprint by 20 percent over the next 10 years, he wonders whether it is just…
Is our green green enough?
Categories: EditorialNot very, unfortunately. While Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is to be commended for its newly stated goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 20 percent over the next 10 years,…
To ‘clothed’ Anabaptists
Categories: EditorialSometimes it takes an outsider to tell us quiet, unassuming Mennonites that we do indeed have clothes. Stuart Murray, a British biblical scholar from the Baptist tradition who has just…
Spring 2010 List of Books & Resources
Categories: UncategorizedTheology 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus. Paul M. Zehr. Herald Press, 2010, 406 pages. This is the 22nd volume of the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series. Zehr has many years…
Filling the Kohma
Categories: UncategorizedNew cookbooks are ubiquitous, and family histories have become popular, but a cookbook that is a family history—or a family history that is a cookbook—is a curious hybrid. Lisa Heinrichs,…
Sophomore CD released to much applause
Categories: ArtbeatThe Friesen Family Band just keeps getting better! As quickly as the children grow, the seven-member family grows in its music, adding instruments, expertise and new material. On March 24,…
The next step: Helping to build infrastructure in rural Haiti
Categories: UncategorizedThe response of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake will gradually shift from the capital city of Port-au-Prince to rural communities that are expected to play an…
Canada a ‘hard soil’ for the gospel
Categories: UncategorizedBeing the church in the 21st century is no easy task, Robert J. Suderman told the delegates and pastors gathered at Eden Mennonite Church, Chilliwack early last month for the…
Church growth, expansion lauded by B.C. delegates
Categories: UncategorizedBeginnings, endings and growth marked the Mennonite Church B.C. annual meetings at Eden Mennonite Church, Chilliwack, on April 10, under the banner of “The hope of the reconciling gospel of…
When faith collides with academic freedom
Categories: UncategorizedAfter stories went national earlier this year announcing that Trinity Western University (TWU) in Langley, B.C., had fallen afoul of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) over issues of…
‘From farm to fork’
Categories: UncategorizedSo many people spend their time and energy accumulating things, but what they really want are simpler lives and deeper connections with others. Knowing that reconnecting with friends and family…
Take good care of your children
Categories: Viewpoints“Who will take care of our children if something happens to us?” The decision about guardianship of minor children is one of the major hurdles facing parents when writing a…
They call it ‘couple-love’
Categories: ViewpointsA season of weddings. That’s what I see as I look ahead to the next few months. Many of the children born in the 1980s are now young adults falling…
Specializing in a Google world
Categories: ViewpointsIn a Google world where millions of written works are at your fingertips, it’s tough for the average user to discern appropriate resources for Christian formation, leadership, peace and mission.…
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