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Indigenous relations work revamped and reduced
Categories: Web FirstThe governing body of Mennonite Church Canada has decided to end the full-time Indigenous-Settler Relations (ISR) position held by Steve Heinrichs and replace it with a new half-time position. Heinrichs’s…
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Praising God together across barriers
Categories: News“I can see one family with a lot of members, worshipping the same Father,” says Natacha Kyendrebeogo of Burkina Faso. She is one of four young people serving through the…
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Valaqua gets a spring makeover
Categories: NewsCamp Valaqua welcomed approximately 30 enthusiastic volunteers at its spring work day on April 30. Volunteers and staff focused on cleaning up brush and splitting wood. “Our woodshed went from…
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CMU honours LeBlancs with 2022 Pax Award
WINNIPEG—Theologians and community organizers Terry and Bev LeBlanc were honoured with the 2022 Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Pax Award on April 30. CMU president Cheryl Pauls presented the award to…
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Meeting pain with compassion
Categories: Focus on Mental Health“I can talk about mental health and, specifically, suicide risk, because nearly every day I ask someone if they have thoughts of wishing to die.” Ruth Bergen Braun is a…
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‘You don’t need words to do it’
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthSometimes people go through experiences that are too difficult to talk about or too confusing to articulate. Art therapy helps many people process and heal when at first the words…
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Moral distress in pandemic times
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthCindy Wallace Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Cindy Wallace was feeling out of sorts. Each new day seemed to bring more bad news, more uncertainty from leaders around the…
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New mental-health website consolidates resources
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthCommunitas Supportive Care Society has launched a new peer-support website, a comprehensive site that puts mental-health resources as close as the click of a mouse. The effectiveness of peer support…
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Toews adaptation a poignant, honest look at grief
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthToward the end of All My Puny Sorrows, Lottie (Mare Winningham) sits in her Toronto apartment comforting her sobbing daughter, Yoli (Alison Pill), noting, “The pain of letting go of…
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Lonely without insects
Categories: OpinionOnce upon a time I hitchhiked to a park visitors centre nestled beneath Wyoming’s Grand Tetons. Next to other quotes by famous American wilderness gurus were the words of a…
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Mental health, trauma and the non-profit sector
Categories: Focus on Mental Health“You can’t pour from an empty cup.” The words came from a place of kindness and empathy, from someone who knew the feeling. It hit me to my core, because…
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An honest-to-God typo
Categories: OpinionMost of the time I can’t stand typos. They bug me. If I’m completely honest, I’m internally judgmental of people who don’t catch their typos, myself included. I love words,…
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My cousin couldn’t manage the pain
Categories: Focus on Mental HealthNote: This reflection deals with the subject of suicide. On Nov. 27, a Saturday, I received a long text message from my cousin Richard (I’m using only his middle name…
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Grace, guilt and CO2
Categories: Opinion1. Grace There is more grace in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. That does not let anyone off the hook; it promises that we can face the grim fate of…
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Music comes alive through synesthesia, art
Categories: Web FirstImagine if you could see sound. When Anna Schwartz listens to music, she not only hears the different instruments, keys and dynamics—she sees them. That’s because she has synesthesia, a…
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MWC doubles on-site participants for Assembly 17
More people are now able to attend Mennonite World Conference’s next Assembly in person. The National Advisory Committee for Assembly 17 and the executive committee of MWC have raised in-person…
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Second season of ‘The MennoCast’ underway
A podcast that aims to connect Mennonites across Canada is hoping to grow its listenership in 2022. The second season of The MennoCast launched this past January with an episode…
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Joy, abundance and cookies
When my friend Azkaa contacted me about the possibility of an interfaith community Iftar in the heart of downtown Edmonton, where Mennonites would contribute “Mennonite cookies” to the community kitchen…
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Speaking of faith
Categories: Editorial“How do we speak of our faith in a society of many faiths and no faith, a society that has seen all too well the harm the church can inflict…
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Justice in the name of Jesus
Categories: Feature ArticlesSome Mennonites raise their hands when they sing. Others don’t. Some attend climate rallies and examine decolonization. Others don’t. Some Mennonites hear sermons focused on the Word and personal relationship…
