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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…
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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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