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‘A matter of principle’
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada is backing up the establishment of a new Sustainability Leadership Group (SLG) with a $220,000 upgrade to its head office in Winnipeg. The goals of the new…
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Scholar researches coverage of sexual violence in Mennonite church press
Categories: NewsIn her recent research Carol Penner surveyed how the church periodicals, Gospel Herald, The Mennonite, and Canadian Mennonite reported on sexual violence from 1970 to the present. What she found…
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Building relationships through online campus ministry
Categories: NewsStress, anxiety and loneliness are among the many challenges that university students face during this era of remote learning and physical distancing. In past years, Inter-Mennonite Chaplaincy Association (IMCA) operated…
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CommonWord’s top hits of 2020
The year of the coronavirus pandemic saw everyone spending more time at home, and many paying increased attention to their bookshelves. We asked CommonWord, the bookstore and resource centre of…
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Strengthening faith for the coming year
Categories: PeopleWhen a new year begins, many people resolve to lose weight or begin exercising. But the dawning of a new year is also a good time to consider improving one’s…
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When change is your only option
Categories: PeopleWhen the pandemic hit in March, Chris and Laura Mullet Koop, who own and operate Elmwood Farms Inc., were profoundly impacted. Their farm, located in Jordan, Ont., in the designated…
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Pastor addresses radio audience about church gatherings
Categories: PeopleWith a message of “Love your neighbour as yourself,” a Mennonite Church B.C. pastor reached a wide audience on the radio with a message about in-person church gatherings. On a…
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The weirdness of Christmas 2020
“To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair.” Isaiah 61:3 (NLT) A…
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Watch and Listen: A 2020 Christmas Playlist
Categories: Web FirstIf you’re missing the songs you are used to singing and hearing in church at this time of year, Canadian Mennonite has just the thing for you. We have created…
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Under the sparkling stars
Categories: EditorialThe carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” paints a Christmas card picture of the ancient town of the Nativity: sparkling stars lighting quiet streets, a Holy Baby resting in a…
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The importance of patience in settling marital conflict
Categories: Opinion(This Viewpoint piece was inspired by Christina Bartel Barkman’s recent “Marriage and conflict” column.) Conflicts seem to occur even in the best marriages, and sometimes even church policies can become…
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Pandemic denies us shared rituals of grief
Categories: OpinionBy everything that is right and good, Helen Penner’s life should have been celebrated with singing. Singing was a passion for her and her late husband John, and they ensured…
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‘Why don’t we have a food-truck night?’
Categories: OpinionLet me tell you a story. A couple of years ago, our church council did some brainstorming around how to begin reaching out to our neighbours. Because our church is…
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COVID creativity: Cards, buns and wreaths
Categories: NewsLike most of the country, Alberta is experiencing, its second wave of novel coronavirus. As of early December, as many as 1,800 Albertans were contracting COVID-19 every day. With the…
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Resourcing the church in transition
Categories: News“People talk about church decline,” says Ryan Siemens. “I prefer to talk about church transition.” Lately, he’s been thinking a lot about church transition, and wondering, “What are we being…
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‘A monument for our resilience’
Categories: NewsJanet Bauman recently participated in a 45-minute virtual tour of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., with other people from St. Jacobs Mennonite Church; it fit in…
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Meditations while sheltering in place
Categories: NewsEvan Kreider was scheduled to speak at Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship in Vancouver in the spring of 2020. But the pandemic put an end to that, as life as we…
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Pandemic fund targets inequalities in global church
Categories: News“What a joy it is for the brothers and sisters [of the Bateke Plateau] to feel themselves a part of the larger Mennonite family,” says Reverend Seraphin Kutumbana of Communauté…
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‘For God all things are possible’
Categories: NewsIn late October, Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia (IMCOL—Colombian Mennonite Church) issued a public statement declaring that there have been 60 massacres (killings of five people or more at a…
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Together in Worship launches in collaboration with CommonWord
Categories: NewsWhile Mennonites across Canada and the United States eagerly await the arrival of the new hymnal, Voices Together, hundreds of online worship resources are already accessible to them through a…
