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Ribbon cutting celebrates capital project’s success
Categories: NewsAfter two years of construction, a pandemic, and a decade of dreaming and planning, Conrad Grebel University College’s new kitchen and renovated dining room are complete. More than a thousand…
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Velo Renovation reimagines construction in the climate-crisis era
Categories: NewsIf you see someone cycling in Winnipeg, toting behind them stacks of lumber, buckets of paint or even a ladder, it’s probably a member of Velo Renovation. They are used…
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Grandma’s soup expressed love and care
Categories: PeopleMy grandmother’s chicken noodle soup was the stuff of legends. My father has told me that when he was a young boy, his mother would make chicken noodle soup for…
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Grandma’s chicken noodle soup
Categories: PeopleMy grandmother didn’t write down her recipe, but my aunts put their heads together to recall how Grandma made her chicken noodle soup. I received lots of help from my…
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Living ‘in a prophetic way’
Categories: PeopleMennonites across Alberta know her. Her heart for Muslims and those who are newcomers to Canada is well known. She has fed hundreds of refugees and immigrants over the past…
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MDS in Shenandoah Valley celebrates creativity of volunteers during pandemic
Categories: Web FirstDozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic.…
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Is church online for good?
Categories: Web First – Opinion“We’re all going through the same storm, but we’re not all in the same boat. Context is everything.” These words, spoken by a North American pastor, address the divergent responses…
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Voices Together and creation care
If you are anything like me, you are missing singing hymns as a congregation during this pandemic. Hymns are such a vital part of expressing our faith. We find comfort…
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Watch: MCI students express hope through dance
Categories: Web FirstSet aside those tired clichés about Mennonites and dancing, and enjoy an inspired performance by the dance class at Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna, Man. To mark the end of…
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What makes you happy?
Categories: Opinion“So . . . what’s next??” The dreaded question for every graduate. It’s been a few years (plus a few more!) since I graduated from high school and university, but…
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Lamenting the loss of young Indigenous lives
Categories: OpinionFollowing the discovery of the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops (B.C.) Indian Residential School by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, Mennonite Central Committee…
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Members from MC Canada delegation share what they learned
Categories: OpinionMembers of a Mennonite Church Canada delegation attended the virtual conference hosted by NAIITS—An Indigenous Learning Community from June 3 to 6. Each year NAIITS (formerly the North American Institute…
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‘I didn’t know that was going on’
Categories: NewsWhat do a handful of library books, a white Christmas tree and coloured paper feathers have in common? They were all part of an interactive educational response to the injustice…
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T-shirts encourage Mennos to get vaccinated
Categories: PeopleWhen Ryan Polinsky designed T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Menno & Vaccinated” at the beginning of June, he intended to sell only a few to his family. He has since…
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After the pandemic, churches look to move forward
Categories: NewsCongregations will resume some sort of gathering after the major concerns about COVID-19 are minimized and regulations are relaxed. Talk of getting “back to normal” is common. What will the…
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Memorial created from unearthed Mennonite gravestones in Ukraine
Categories: NewsTwo years ago, a Ukrainian researcher began excavating the foundation of a dilapidated brick barn in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. Using shovels and picks, he began to unearth the rubble. Then he…
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Book study group explores healthy masculinity
Categories: NewsFor years Don Neufeld dreamed about providing a space where men could explore healthy masculinity from an Anabaptist/Mennonite perspective. During the month of June he co-facilitated an online book study…
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Men weave plastic milk bags into sleeping mats
Categories: NewsIt takes 250 plastic milk bags to make a one-metre-x-two-metre washable, waterproof sleeping mat. And it takes hours of volunteer work to flatten, cut, loop and weave strips of the…
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Small size makes Mennonite school adaptable in COVID-19 reality
Categories: NewsLast year was supposed to be full of celebrations for the 75th anniversary of UMEI Christian High School (formerly United Mennonite Educational Institute). Instead, the pandemic shut things down right…
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