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Teachers learn lessons, too
Categories: PeopleIt’s not uncommon for Linda Bartel to meet former students while volunteering, and she’s always delighted to see them. Bartel, who is 86 years old, volunteers two or three days…
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Public invited to explore ‘Unsettling the Word’
Anyone looking to explore the Mennonite Church Canada publication Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization in a group setting has an opportunity to do so in the coming month.…
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Deep dive into theology
Categories: Web FirstChristian theology, ministry and the Bible are complex topics that can be studied using various approaches at Conrad Grebel University College (Waterloo, Ont.), whose master of theological studies (MTS) program…
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Christian Peacemaker Teams celebrates 35 years
Christian Peacemaker Teams is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2021 with a year full of webinars and actions. The first webinar takes place on Thursday, Jan. 28. Titled “Looking Back,…
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New ways of learning for a new time
Categories: Web FirstNindyo Sasongko believes theology should be publicly available to a wider audience. His experiment in online discussions began in late 2018. When the pandemic hit last year, “@Theovlogy” increased in…
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Watch: A tour of Voices Together
Categories: Web FirstIt may be aimed at children, but everyone will learn something from a video exploring the new Voices Together hymnal. The video walks viewers through everything that is on a…
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The gift of a coffee with John H. Neufeld
One of the greatest gifts you can give another person is your time. No matter how much we work or how much money we earn, our time is finite. Once…
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MCC initiates research into historical connections with National Socialism
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has initiated research into how national socialism (Nazism) shaped the contexts in Europe and Paraguay where MCC operated in the 1930s and ’40s, and how, at…
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Learning together, apart
Categories: EditorialWhether you call it Sunday school, faith formation or Christian education, one aspect of a congregation’s life together is how we nurture faith in people of all ages. Last spring,…
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Colombian Mennonites report violence, call for solidarity
Categories: Feature ArticlesDespite a landmark 2016 peace deal that held the promise of ending more than 50 years of violence in Colombia, Mennonites in South America’s second most populated country report that…
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Readers write: January 18, 2021 issue
Categories: OpinionSeeking a call to discernment Re: “Credentials terminated for theologian-academic-pastor,” Nov. 9, 2020, page 18. Last October, John D. Rempel joined John Howard Yoder, Karl Barth and numerous other theologians…
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Refined, pared back, purified
Categories: OpinionIn his book Transforming Mission, missiologist David J. Bosch famously pictured the church’s mission as “a ceaseless celebration of the Feast of Epiphany” with our life together, our prayers, our…
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Gesangbuch
Categories: OpinionWhy go to all the trouble of producing a new hymnal? The Gesangbuch commission of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada faced this question in 1961. The 1942 version, it…
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The kingdom of heaven now
Categories: OpinionAt the end of the infamous year 2020, I retired from pastoral ministry. Again. We’ll see if it “takes” this time. Looking back, I am reminded that, at different times…
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The practice of faith
Categories: OpinionThe Buddhist nun looked across the table and asked me if Christians were taught how to practise faith. “Is Christian faith only beliefs that you try to internalize? Or do…
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Launched into oblivion
Categories: OpinionMy youngest daughter Ruth can be a little firecracker. We say that she’s sweet and spicy. Sometimes she can get into a real funk, though, and I can feel lost…
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Good graces
Categories: OpinionAs human beings, we’re generally pretty lousy at grace. We long for it in our deepest and truest moments, and we desperately need it, God knows. But we often struggle…
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Churches work together to serve curbside Christmas dinner
Categories: NewsOn Christmas Day, 137 free turkey dinners were served up for people who needed some Christmas cheer in the Wilmot and Wellesley townships of Waterloo Region. The curbside Christmas dinner…
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MWC Executive Committee approves expansion plan
Categories: NewsIn online Mennonite World Conference (MWC) meetings in mid-November 2020, the Executive Committee approved expansion of MWC’s structure to include new specialized networks. Deliberation of the proposal to accept new…
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Partnership provides ‘exciting opportunity’ to address affordable housing
Categories: NewsThe need is great. Six thousand people wait for affordable housing in Waterloo Region. Local government is committed to creating 25,000 new housing units in the next five years, but…
