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Watch: Steve Bell’s Freedom Road update
Categories: Web First“It’s a pretty good story,” Steve Bell says in a new video. That’s an understatement. In the 12-minute video, published on Bell’s YouTube page earlier this month, the Winnipeg singer-songwriter…
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The feast of grace
Categories: EditorialRecently, I found myself hungering for grace. With the world still entrenched in this pandemic, we witness the complexities around public safety, the angry words, the strained relationships, the exhaustion,…
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Mary’s story: Our inheritance
Categories: Feature ArticlesMary’s story comes to us this year, maybe in a new way, at a time when we welcome some really good news. We could use an encouraging, empowering and heart-warming…
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Readers write: November 22, 2021 issue
Categories: Opinion‘We are in a climate emergency’: MC Canada Mennonite Church Canada leaders released the following statement on Nov. 4 during the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland: Climate scientists have…
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Keeping a kettle out of the landfill
Categories: OpinionThe last time my in-laws came north to visit, they brought us a broken electric kettle. We had gifted it to them at a long-ago Christmas. Now, years later, it…
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Oakella Prison Farm
Categories: OpinionHerb Wiebe, facing camera, visits with an inmate at the Oakalla Prison Farm in Burnaby, B.C., in 1970. A growing number of British Columbia Mennonite men volunteered to befriend inmates…
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Every tribe and language
Categories: OpinionI expect everyone has forgotten what I had to say when I spoke at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate’s chapel a few years ago. But I know some remember that I asked…
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What do I miss about church?
Categories: OpinionAfter a month in the woods by myself, my sabbatical plan is to spend three months listening to people who aren’t a part of church culture, to see how they…
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MC B.C. posts land acknowledgment
Categories: NewsIn the spirit of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia, a statement of land acknowledgment has been adopted by Mennonite Church British Columbia. It states: “We respectfully and gratefully…
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MC Canada urged to act for climate justice
Categories: NewsAt the beginning of November, thousands of people from across the globe gathered at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to address the climate crisis. Meanwhile, there was also…
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‘If you see someone in need, you lend a hand’
Categories: NewsFor Bradley and Virginia Walker, livestock farmers in Endeavour, Sask., this year’s weather was a disaster. “The rain was so patchy,” says Bradley. “Some places got good rain; we got…
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Friendships flourish at Hidden Acres inclusion camp
Categories: NewsLike many other organizations, Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp and Retreat Centre was forced to rethink its programs and services when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down normal operations last year. It…
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Time well spent with MCC
Categories: PeopleIt has been well over half of their lifetime ago—“38 years to be exact,” said one of the six women who gathered on a warm August evening with their spouses…
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Many languages, but one in Christ
Categories: Web FirstBrethren in Christ church members in Zimbabwe still use their Mennonite World Conference (MWC) global assembly bags from 2003 to carry their Bibles to church. “The [MWC] logo always reminds…
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Six reasons to attend the 2022 MWC Assembly
Categories: Web FirstAre you wondering whether or not to attend the upcoming Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Semarang, Indonesia, which takes place July 5-10, 2022? John D. Roth’s new book, A Cloud…
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COP26 a chance to cultivate a garden
Truth be told, I am nervous to attend COP26. Many reports on social media are declaring this climate summit to be of absolute importance, that the state of the global…
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MCC lists Winnipeg offices for sale
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) announced in October that its two Winnipeg offices are on the market. The property at 134 Plaza Drive, that is jointly owned by MCC Manitoba and…
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Pandora Press appoints new academic editor
Maxwell Kennel has taken over the role of academic editor at Pandora Press beginning in the fall of 2021, and he will also become director of the publishing company beginning…
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Anabaptists in Nepal witness climate impacts
Categories: Web FirstAs scientists and world leaders met at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Anabaptists in Nepal were helping to address the immediate and deadly impacts of the climate emergency.…
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A new call for MC Canada
Categories: EditorialThe Earth is in trouble. As I write, international leaders, scientists and activists are meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, a forum discussing actions the worldwide community must take to…
