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Reconciliation recommendations for worship
In an Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary course for worship leaders engaging the new Voices Together hymnal, we were asked to consider the following question for an assignment: How can our…
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MC Canada: ‘Pray for the people of Myanmar’
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada calls on the nationwide community of faith to pray for the people of Myanmar. Pray also for our Myanmar siblings here in Canada. They are deeply concerned…
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‘Women Talking’ adaptation takes shape
Some big names are attached to the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’ most recent novel, Women Talking. Deadline.com reported in December 2020 that Frances McDormand, known for her Academy Award-winning…
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Paul Bergman returns with new single
Categories: Web FirstIt’s been more than five years since Paul Bergman’s last album, but the wait for new music is over. “I Just Want to Walk in the Dark with You,” a…
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Hope in a bleak midwinter
Categories: EditorialCanadians are struggling with the heaviness of this winter. The prospect of several more months with physical gathering restrictions is as depressing as the grey skies of southern Ontario in…
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Stones of remembrance
Categories: Feature Articles“And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to the Israelites, ‘In the future when your descendants ask their parents,…
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Readers write: February 1, 2021 issue
Categories: OpinionMight Jesus have really said ‘Our Mother’? Re: “Gendered images of God,” Nov. 23, 2020, page 23. The committee that worked on the new hymnal, Voices Together, says that “the…
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Jacob Kroeker
Categories: OpinionScarlet fever, cholera, diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid and whooping cough were some of communicable diseases that plagued communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jacob Kroeker (1836-1914) came to Manitoba…
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Connections
Categories: OpinionI believe it is important that we are called to belong to a faith community that is beyond our own congregation. My main question today is: “How do we belong,…
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Losing freedom?
Categories: OpinionI’m writing this on Jan. 18 and I’m wondering how tone deaf my article will seem by the time you read it. I have no idea what the world will…
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Wise stories can build peace
Categories: OpinionIn the aftermath of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, and the violence that boiled over in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 of this year, it feels as though tensions…
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You are invited to join the table
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada’s International Witness program invites congregations across its nationwide community of faith to join networks of support for its International Witness ministries. “Being part of the network…
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The importance of a ‘generous space’ in Manitoba
Categories: NewsJamie Arpin-Ricci Thousands of LGBTQ+ Christians have found community at Generous Space Ministries. Manitoba Mennonites are no exception. In fact, Pastor Jamie Arpin-Ricci is Generous Space’s director of community for…
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Appeal for funds garners no small potatoes
Categories: NewsWhen the missions and service ministry team at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon was trying to identify a giving project the congregation could rally behind, it thought of the…
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‘Help me to see how you see it’
Categories: NewsSafwat Marzouk “I want to learn from you.” These words express the attitude in an intercultural church. Keynote speaker Safwat Marzouk encouraged this posture of openness at a recent online…
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A tribute to Menno Wiebe (1932-2021)
Categories: PeopleUpon entering the home of Menno and Lydia Wiebe at 10 Concord Avenue in Winnipeg, where they lived for 48 years, one would likely be met not with conventional niceties…
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Colleagues, friends remember Menno Wiebe
Categories: Web-onlyMenno Wiebe, who died on Jan. 5 at his home in Winnipeg, was highly respected in Mennonite circles and beyond for his work and relationships with Indigenous Peoples. While reporting…
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There is no peace without Christ
Categories: PeopleWhat was so important that an Ethiopian Mennonite pastor would go back to Ethiopia with his family during COVID-19 and a war? After much preparation and prayer, Pastor Mezgebu A.…
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Woodworker, pastor dies at 101
Categories: PeopleErwin Cornelsen Erwin Cornelsen, former pastor and one of the last Mennonite Aeltesters (elders) in Canada, died Dec. 26, 2020, at Menno Hospital in Abbotsford, B.C., at the age of…
