Clean or unclean?
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was driving from Calgary out to Rosemary, Alta., to attend Bill and Bob Janzen’s mom’s funeral. As I drove I recalled hearing of times when everyone lived in large…
The shepherd
Categories: Feature ArticlesI still think of myself as a shepherd. Every day, actually every night, I’m out there. I look for the lost, the wanderers and the weary, and I bring them…
Christmas: A time for giving
Categories: Feature ArticlesBarb and Orrie Gingrich of Holyrood, Ont., have quite a crowd of grandchildren. It was 2008 when Barb began to think of all the gifts being exchanged at her place…
Incubating peace
Categories: Feature ArticlesInnovation is all the rage in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., the place I now call home. A day does not go by without stories about another high-tech start-up in the local paper,…
Top five reasons why the customer isn’t always right
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt seems like every second time I open my computer these days I come across the latest instance of what is becoming a very familiar—and obnoxious—brand of writing: the “five…
Dis-placed and de-natured
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhy should I care for the environment? A lot of Christians today are asking that question. I mean, we know it’s probably the right thing to do, but what’s a…
Watershed discipleship
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat does a transformative, earth-honouring Christianity look like at ground level and lived out in daily action? Reforms of personal habits—such as recycling, eating locally and shopping responsibly—are important steps.…
A tale of two ethnic groups
Categories: Feature ArticlesTo start, a little bit of history. The Mennonites evolved out of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. As Anabaptist pacifists who practised adult baptism, they often held themselves apart from the…
Cooking up discipleship
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen I was a small child, my parents took our family on assignment to Chile as church workers. In a country which at that time had no Anabaptist-Mennonite churches, our…
Christian reflections on balance and the Middle East
Categories: Feature ArticlesNot long ago I returned from a trip to the Middle East, where I led a group of ten students from Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute (MBCI) in Winnipeg through many…
Can sex with a pastor be an affair?
Categories: Feature Articles(The following article discusses a difficult topic in story form. All characters are fictional, although the events referred to are based on an amalgamation of true experiences.) She went to…
“Walking with God”
Categories: Feature ArticlesDebora Prabu, from Indonesia, sings during one of the nine worship services at Mennonite World Conference Assembly, held July 21 to 26, 2015. She was part of the 17-person international…
Mennonite World Conference assembly roundup
Categories: Feature ArticlesWalking with God and each other (overview) Video series: Charting Walks with God Worship services MWC PA 2015 opens with celebration, call for walking together Speakers share doubts from their…
Walking with God and each other
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn his friendship group at the Mennonite World Conference assembly, Francis Ojwang found that getting to know fellow believers from distant places brought an unexpected blessing. The Kenyan pastor had…
Music brings unity at world conference
Categories: Feature ArticlesWorship rises to the rafters as Mennonites and Brethren and Christ join their voices in music from around the world at PA 2015 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Differences exist in theology…
MWC youth program supported by MC Canada
Categories: Feature ArticlesMegan Breidigan may be only 16, but she’s already figured out there’s nothing quite like a Mennonite World Conference assembly. The Douglasville, Pa., high school student says this is different…
Global Youth Summit calls young people to share gifts
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe three-day Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Global Youth Summit (GYS) concluded Sunday, July 19, with a strong call to young adults to impact the world by sharing their gifts. Under…
Global Church Village invites visitors to leave their mark
Categories: Feature Articles“This seems like an innocent form of community graffiti,” Roland Yoder said with a smile as he watched the hub of activity around the three-dimensional sculpture of the Mennonite World…
Women gather to explore global network
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor the first time Anabaptist women gathered from across the world to consider forming a global Anabaptist women’s network. The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly, provided the occasion for regional…
General Council fosters interdependence in global communion
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn four days of meetings just prior to the July 21-26 Mennonite World Conference Assembly, the General Council gathered with about 120 representatives from MWC member churches around the world.…
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