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Watch: Jane Philpott shares lessons from detours
Categories: Web FirstIn a talk posted on YouTube earlier this month, university dean and former member of parliament Jane Philpott reflects on two detours that changed her path. During the 18-minute presentation,…
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CMU launches new Centre for Career and Vocation
WINNIPEG—Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) celebrated the launch of its newest initiative, the Centre for Career and Vocation on March 1. The centre’s mission is “to equip members of the CMU…
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Mennonite recipes with a plant-based twist
Categories: Web FirstJo Snyder has moved around Canada pursuing a career in communications and toured across Europe playing punk music, but a new project has brought her back to her Mennonite roots…
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Greening the church
Categories: Editorial“The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it” (Psa. 24:1) a congregation declares in its worship service. In recognition…
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Avoiding an environmental shipwreck
Categories: Feature ArticlesEvery time you walk into the church building, that threadbare carpet stares up at you. Everyone agrees it’s time for a change, but how do you replace a worn-out carpet…
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Readers write: March 29, 2021 issue
Categories: OpinionFascism by any other name Re: “Committed to seeking a deeper understanding,” Feb. 1, page. 13 It is a good idea that Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is willing to re-examine…
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‘Rooted in Christ, reaching out in love’
Categories: OpinionCOVID-19 has forced most of us to embrace that most rousing of Anabaptist virtues: simplicity. Our lives have been simplified, stripped down to the essentials. We have gone out only…
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Group photo
Categories: OpinionNothing says “occasion” like a panoramic group photograph. Pictured, Sharon Mennonite Church in Guernsey, Sask., commemorates its 50th anniversary in 1955. The congregation consisted primarily of Mennonite settlers from the…
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Accountability
Categories: OpinionJean Vanier. Ravi Zacharias. John Howard Yoder. We add to this list in our own Canadian Mennonite church community every year. My Lenten reading in March was from Matthew 23,…
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Cave of emptiness
Categories: OpinionI spend at least 30 minutes a day in silent prayer and meditation, but sometimes this isn’t enough. A few times a year I need a fuller and deeper experience…
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What would Jesus think about factory farms?
Categories: OpinionIn Genesis 9:3, God says to Noah: “Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you…
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Allowing God’s light to shine ‘out of us’
Categories: News“We hear God’s voice from a place of knowing who we are,” said Kirsten Hamm-Epp. In her meditation that opened Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions, the regional church minister…
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Reimagining Assembly 17
Categories: NewsFollowing the decision to offer the 2022 Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly in Indonesia as a hybrid event, the Program Committee members and assembly staff are now re-imagining the event…
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MC Manitoba looks to the future amid a pandemic
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Manitoba’s 74th annual gathering was confined to screens this year due to the ongoing pandemic, but reports of the regional church’s work came from all over the province,…
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A life-altering gospel and simple faith
Categories: NewsOver Zoom, Norm Dyck shares a photo of a church-planting map from the Nazareth-Adama region of Ethiopia. At the top is the mother church established in 1948 with the help…
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Chin congregation celebrates 10th anniversary, opening of new building
Categories: News“God is so good to us,” said Pastor Leng Nawn Thang excitedly as he spoke about all the ways God has taken care of Calgary Chin Christian Church, a member…
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Meet MC Canada’s Sustainability Leadership Group
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada is committing to improve the sustainability of its programs and ministries. “Leadership and commitment are some of the most critical pieces in helping an organization become more…
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Race explored in 2021 Bechtel Lecture
Categories: NewsThis year’s virtual Bechtel Lecture, “Blackness, whiteness and the Anabaptist ‘imagined community’ in print and mission,” featured two speakers: Diana Braithwaite, an accomplished blues, gospel and jazz performer, and founder…
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A dehydrator and a dream
Categories: NewsWhen the COVID-19 pandemic began a year ago, global food security networks were put to the test. In the Philippines, where Dann and Joji Pantoja serve as Mennonite Church Canada…
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‘Making plans, but holding them lightly’
Categories: NewsAs the academic year draws to a close, students and staff at Columbia Bible College are reflecting on how the college has successfully navigated offering in-person learning despite the challenges…
