‘Little by little there will be change’
Categories: UncategorizedGene Stoltzfus, the founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), died of a heart attack in Fort Frances, Ont., while bicycling near his home on the first spring-like day of…
Celebrating abilities
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Bonnie Sawatzky rolled her wheelchair down the student union plaza hill just after lighting the Paralympic torch at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver last month, she…
Counting the cost of retirement
Categories: ViewpointsAre you somewhat jealous of your teacher friends, who, in their early 50s, are already counting the days, only a few years away, when they can say goodbye to their…
Putting the cat to sleep
Categories: ViewpointsRecently I took my sick cat to the vet, who diagnosed him as having a significant tumour lodged in his intestines. That explained the odd behaviour we’d observed, like him…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. What have been some of the more effective and less effective ways that you have heard Scripture read during worship? What are the advantages and disadvantages of reading longer…
Making the Word in worship come alive
Categories: Feature ArticlesHow much of your worship service is spent reading and hearing Scripture? 10 percent? 15 percent? More? Less? In 2004, my doctoral thesis advisor, Constance Cherry, who teaches worship and…
Words are powerful
Categories: EditorialSpeech seems to be on the public mind these days. As I write this, much of the Canadian press and Ottawa University seem to be in a spat over the…
Cherish this magazine
Categories: EditorialOver the past six years, I’ve had the great privilege of serving on the board of Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service (CMPS), overseer of this magazine. It’s time now to say…
Experiencing the Chaco through Paraguay Primeval
Categories: ArtbeatThe standing-room-only audience in the Conrad Grebel University College chapel on March 3 listened to street sounds (cars, voices, music), Spanish voices shift into aboriginal ones, German voices, and modern…
‘Signs of solidarity’ among victims of Chile earthquake
Categories: UncategorizedOn the morning of Feb. 27 a one-minute earthquake left nearly 300 dead and a half-million homes destroyed. Power cuts, blocked roads and collapsed communications services made it difficult to…
Quick connections after quake in Chile
Categories: UncategorizedWithin minutes of hearing midday news reports on Feb. 27 of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that had occurred earlier that day in Chile, Tim Froese had sent an e-mail alert…
MC Manitoba records slight deficit
Categories: UncategorizedTom Seals, Mennonite Church Manitoba treasurer, reported that donations from congregations in 2009 were down by 3.4 percent, or $23,442. Although the congregational giving budget had been decreased from the…
MC Manitoba churches urged to get their youths ‘Outtatown’
Categories: UncategorizedAlthough much of last month’s Mennonite Church Manitoba annual delegates sessions was concerned with the area church’s camping ministries (see “Camping issues top MC Manitoba delegate session,” March 8, page…
‘Breath of Life’ for MC Saskatchewan
Categories: UncategorizedSaskatchewan delegates took a step into the future during their annual delegate sessions at the end of February, when they accepted a new congregation into their midst and moved to…
From ‘exhortation to incarnation’ in witness
Categories: UncategorizedFreed from some of the Mennonite ethnic restraints of the past, some 50 pastors from Mennonite Church Saskatchewan attending the annual delegate sessions last month conversed with Alan Kreider about…
Quake hits close to home
Categories: UncategorizedJan. 12 was a day like no other for Arisnel Mesidor. On this day, Haiti, his homeland—and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere—was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.…
Convert . . . or die
Categories: ViewpointsIt’s quite unfashionable these days to think people should change their minds. This is a strange thought that, well, needs to change. In some parts of the world—places some Canadians…
Pondering dissent from popular films
Categories: ViewpointsWarning: Part A below uses evangelical language. If you are sensitive to harsh judgments, please skip ahead to Part B for a gentle conclusion. Part A: “Hate” is such a…
New directions in Manitoba
Categories: ViewpointsAt the recent annual gathering of Mennonite Church Manitoba, the talk was about new directions. It seems the search for new ways of organizing ourselves is in the air everywhere.…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How does your congregation commemorate the pain of the cross and celebrate the joy of Easter? What do you find most meaningful? Peter J. Dyck describes a papier-maché drama…
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