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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…
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Theology students learn to value varied perspectives
Categories: NewsFaculty and students in the master of theological studies (MTS) program at Conrad Grebel University College have found that conversations between those with different approaches to Christianity are a valuable…
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Locked down but uplifted
Categories: News“The love from Indonesia.” For Enosh Rupamajhi, Jeu Song and Olicky Muchindu—members of the Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN)—the warmth of relationship from their hosts and each other is…
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Mennonite milestones through an artist’s lens
Categories: PeopleThe year 2020 featured some big moments in the Mennonite world. MennoMedia launched Voices Together, the new worship and song collection; and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) celebrated its centennial. Although…
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Canadian students come second, third in binational speech contest
Categories: PeopleCatherine Bergs, a student at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., and Jubilee Dueck Thiessen, a student at Canadian Mennonite University when she gave her speech earlier this year, came…
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CMU practicum student helps shape Anabaptist worship
Categories: PeopleAmelia Pahl, a fourth-year Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student doing an interdisciplinary degree in religion and narrative, did a three-month practicum placement with Together in Worship, a website of free…
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COVID-19 cases rise among Mennonites in Waterloo Region
On Nov. 30, public health officials in the Waterloo Region of Ontario issued an order to close all Old Order, Markham, Old Colony (Low German speaking) and David Martin Mennonite…
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Making sense of the bleakness
“An urgent reality … a state of public health emergency.” This is how our premier, Jason Kenney, described our situation in Alberta last week because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It…
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Gifts received, gifts given
Categories: EditorialAs Christmas approaches, many of us are thinking about gifts. The beautifully wrapped packages under the Christmas tree, of course. Also other types of gifts—the kind that we can receive…
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Resting in the shadow of hope
Categories: Feature ArticlesRecently, I read a book that unsettled my sense of hope. In her memoir I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown, a racial-justice…
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