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‘Peace is for everyone’
Categories: NewsThese days, with many congregations searching for ways to carry on with existing children’s programming, Nutana Park Mennonite Church in Saskatoon has launched a brand new peace club for children…
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Webinar addresses Doctrine of Discovery
Categories: NewsA Sept. 29 webinar helped 260 participants learn more about the Doctrine of Discovery and how a proclamation made more than 500 years ago still has repercussions for Indigenous peoples…
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‘Be bold! Make yourselves known!’
Categories: PeopleGiugovaz is not a Mennonite name, but Steven Giugovaz is definitely an Anabaptist. Son of immigrants from Italy and with a Croatian heritage, he has been on a journey that…
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Women supporting women across borders
Categories: PeoplePamela Obonde came to Winnipeg from Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2019 to study in the master of arts in peacebuilding and collaborative development program at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). But…
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Minority Mennonites organize a support group
Categories: PeopleWhen Gabby Martin mentions that she’s a Mennonite, she’s often met with, “Okay, but where are you from?” Her father is Black and her mother is Syrian; she was adopted…
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‘There is always a way’
Categories: PeopleChristen Kong, 27, was part of the community outreach team at Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church when the group started a local butterfly garden to encourage pollinators. Kong marvels at how…
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Zwiebach from Saint Johanna
Categories: PeopleMy earliest memories of food go back to my childhood in the Chaco, Paraguay, where my family lived from 1947 to 1952. Our family, like the others in our village,…
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Zwiebach recipe
Categories: PeopleNow that I am retired, I love to bake zwiebach and have become known at Jubilee Mennonite Church in Winnipeg as the “Zwiebach Lady.” You can read more about my…
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Leon’s Island
Categories: Web FirstAfter 20 years of negotiations, planning and construction, the water has gone up behind Manitoba Hydro’s $8.7-billion Keeyask dam about 725 km. north of Winnipeg. The troubled project on the…
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Postures of trust and openness to transformation
Categories: Web FirstTany Warkentin and her family served as Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers in Burkina Faso for six years, until 2011. Warkentin brings that experience to her role as liaison to…
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Families negotiate education during pandemic
Categories: Web FirstMary Anne Neufeld of Vineland, Ont. teaches Kindergarten in the public school system and was surprised at the beginning of the school year that 92 percent of students returned to…
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Some thoughts on proselytizing
Should Christians still share their faith with those who don’t believe? I understand that in many contexts the answer to that question is obvious . . . though what is…
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Expanding the reconciliation tent
Categories: Feature ArticlesAlthough I’m a pacifist who has never voted Conservative, I support the Conservative-led campaign to put a war hero’s face on the $5 bill. All the more so after speaking…
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Readers write: October 12, 2020 issue
Categories: OpinionReactions to recent ‘A moment from yesterday’ photographs Re: A photograph of a volleyball game beside a row of tall poplar trees with a lake in the background, Aug. 17,…
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Faith is so much more
Categories: OpinionThe youth of the Mennonite church are often on my mind, and over the years, they have secured a place in my heart. It has been total joy and privilege…
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LaVerna Klippenstein
Categories: OpinionLaVerna Klippenstein (1934-2014) fulfilled many roles, including mother, wife, teacher and author. After her marriage to Lawrence Klippenstein in 1956, the pair began working in the Métis community of Matheson…
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Two stories clamour to be shared
Categories: OpinionThe first story is as recent as a week ago last Sunday. As I stood to sing a somewhat familiar hymn in the morning worship service, the words came off…
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Living well together
Categories: OpinionWhether you know the word or not, shalom is central to the way most Mennonites think of what it means to be disciples faithful to Jesus. “Peace” is how the…
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Praying for the prophets
Categories: OpinionI was sitting at the kitchen table, trying to read amidst my children having breakfast and building with Lego, and I read this verse: “And afterward, I will pour out my…
