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Readers write: October 25, 2021 issue
Categories: OpinionNo religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccines: MC Canada Mennonite Church Canada’s executive ministers released a statement at the end of September responding to inquiries from constituents regarding exemption from COVID-19…
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Plymouth Victory
Categories: OpinionLook way off in the distance behind the North American Mennonite and Brethren farm boys (looking rather dazed at their surroundings) and you will notice the ruins of ancient Athens.…
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Is that not us?
Categories: OpinionI am pondering yet again the “Mennonite” label, and what it means for us today in Canada. There are three things that recently provoked these questions. First, Mennonite Central Committee…
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Into the woods
Categories: OpinionTomorrow I’m driving to a log cabin in remote northern Quebec to spend a month in the woods by myself. That said, I’m not exactly roughing it. The cabin has…
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Indigenous elder leads series on history, reconciliation
Categories: NewsThis fall, a collective of people in southern Manitoba working at Indigenous-settler reconciliation, called the Truth and Action Working Group, is hosting a series of talks with David Scott, an…
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Violence in Myanmar, prayers in Canada
Categories: NewsWhat for many of us may be a fleeting headline about strife on the other side of the world is for others within our faith family a heartbreaking reminder of…
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‘Community for all’ at Parkwood
Categories: NewsA fundraising campaign at Parkwood Seniors Community is underway, which will see 28 affordable units created in a six-storey, 90-unit building on its Waterloo campus, to be completed by late…
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Seeking made-in-Leamington solutions to homelessness
Categories: NewsIt was the spring of 2018, Pastor Ruth Boehm of Faith Mennonite Church in Leamington recalls, when the father of one of the kids attending the after-school program at the…
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Protesting pipelines in British Columbia
Categories: NewsMennonite Church B.C.’s Indigenous Relations Task Group, which is committed to creating redemptive relationships between settler Mennonites and their Indigenous neighbours, has officially registered its opposition to the Canadian Government’s…
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Grants help people recover from disasters big and small
Categories: NewsAfter a successful first two rounds of funding, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is once again offering its Spirit of MDS Fund to Canadian congregations. Created in response to COVID-19,…
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What does it mean to be a Mennonite?
Categories: People“What does it mean to be a Mennonite?” This is the question Winnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett seeks to answer in his latest film, I Am A Mennonite. Plett has been…
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Making the best of a bad situation
Categories: People“How do you deal with a bad situation? What is the best of the worst solutions?” These are questions Otto Driedger poses as he reflects on the past. In 1965,…
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Training begins for Indonesia 2022 volunteers
Categories: Web FirstWith only 10 more months to prepare, and gathering limitations still in place, the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Assembly 2022’s Indonesian planning committee presses on training volunteers virtually. In May…
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MDS unit helps couple after severe windstorm
Categories: Web FirstWhen Bonnie Lapointe saw the damage caused by the severe windstorm that struck her southwestern Ontario property on Sept. 7, she cried. “I had never seen anything like that,” she…
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Ohio mission group kidnapped in Haiti
Categories: Web FirstA group of 17 Christian Aid Ministries workers and family members was kidnapped Oct. 16 by gang members in Haiti after they visited an orphanage outside Port-au-Prince. CAM, based in…
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New book features imaginative meditations, monologues from the margins
Categories: Web FirstIn her new book, People and Places of Sacred Interior Spaces, spiritual director Laura Funk provides opportunities for imaginative walks of faith through guided meditations, and monologues inspired by the…
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Saskatchewan Mennonites volunteer with Okanagan Gleaners
Categories: Web FirstA small group of volunteers from Rosthern Mennonite Church spent five days in September chopping and dehydrating vegetables at Okanagan Gleaners near Oliver, B.C. Among them were Larry and Denise…
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Garry Janzen to retire as MC B.C. executive minister
Garry Janzen, executive minister for Mennonite Church B.C., has submitted his notice of retirement. He has served in the position for 14 years. “MC B.C. Leadership wants to acknowledge Garry’s…
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On the road toward wisdom
Categories: EditorialI’ve been pondering the learning experiences of Jesus’ disciples as told in the Gospels. Jesus’ vision of God’s reign was so different from the reality they were used to, and…
