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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Join ‘Naked Anabaptists’ on Facebook
Categories: Feature ArticlesNo, it’s not what you might be thinking—nobody is nude. At least, not literally, although more than 300 people have joined the Naked Anabaptist group on the Facebook social media…
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Anabaptism provides a map in the post-Christendom wilderness
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt is becoming undeniably clear that western civilization has entered a post-Christian age. Whereas Christians once believed the world would eventually be brought within the expanding empire of Christendom, it…
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Exposing the ‘bare essentials’ of Anabaptism
Categories: Feature ArticlesAnabaptism has been around for almost 500 years. For much of that time, it has been clothed in Mennonite and Amish traditions and culture. But what does it look like…
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Celebrating women’s stories
Categories: UncategorizedIndian dancers from the Swastini Dance Group led by Swati and Nidhi Juthani swirled over the stage at Victoria Park Pavilion in Kitchener on March 27. Both traditional and “Bollywood”…
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MPN struggling to publish in a digital age
Categories: ArtbeatFor Mennonite Publishing Network (MPN), the ministry of publishing is growing ever more complex. The mission for the publisher of Mennonite Church Canada and MC U.S.A. remains the same: providing…
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Slain soldiers not Canada’s only heroes
Categories: UncategorizedA University of Regina professor caused a commotion last month when he spoke out against the practice of paying the full tuition of children of slain Canadian soldiers. Jeffery Weber,…
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From ‘life support’ to ‘blessed’
Categories: UncategorizedIn his welcoming comments to the 2010 Mennonite Church Alberta delegate sessions, Erwin Wiens, pastor of the host Trinity Mennonite Church, described the area church, made up of 16 congregations…
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Not a Christian . . . just a ‘follower of Jesus’
Categories: UncategorizedMitakuye Oyasin (“All my relations”). With these words of greeting, Richard Twiss, a Lakota First Nations speaker, author and “follower of Jesus,” began two evenings of teaching and inspiration in…
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The gospel in three parts . . . times three
Categories: ViewpointsBefore reading any further, answer this question: What is the gospel? You didn’t do it, did you? You just kept reading. Bad reader. Return to line one. Thanks. Many Christians…
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