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Categories: Feature Articles1. What is a story from your life or from the history of your congregation that has had an impact on you? What stories from the past are important to…
Profiles in education
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe Mennonite church is at a unique time in history. Currently, women lead three of the four major institutions of higher learning serving the church in Canada. In October 2010,…
Hindsight foresight insight
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe ability to see clearly is an important sense to us as Christians and as Mennonites: our theology, The Anabaptist Vision; our music, “Be Thou My Vision”; our scripture, “Without…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What motivates you to give? Where did you learn to be generous? When you give to the church or to other charities, how much of it is carefully planned…
Join the Big Hearts Club
Categories: Feature ArticlesGiving is about much more than money. What we do with our time, talent and treasure all matter to God. As Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there your…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. Mennonite schools had been designed to keep students separate from the “modernizing secular world” while Conrad Grebel College was deliberately set within a large public university. What are the…
The Grebel vision at 50 years
Categories: Feature ArticlesAn innovative experiment in higher education By Susan Schultz Huxman President, Conrad Grebel University College
Ministry in a very different world
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn 2009, when Dave and Margaret Penner first went to work among Low German-speaking Mennonites in Mexico, they encountered a “vacuum.”
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Categories: Feature Articles1. How has your church changed since the 1960s and ’70s? Have there been major changes in the church structures and programs? Do congregational leaders feel hopeful or anxious about…
Finding new paths through the wilderness
Categories: Feature ArticlesThere is a changing reality in many Mennonite churches today. Like other denominations, Mennonite congregations have long lost the gravitational pull they had in the early and mid-1900s, when community…
The economy and my new pair of shoes
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe other morning, after dreaming to the tune of the constant patter of rain on the tin roof of my house, I woke early to enjoy a morning stroll through…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What have been your experiences of suffering, either personally or by people around you? What are the biggest challenges of dealing with long-term suffering? Have you seen someone’s identity…
Tips for giving—and receiving—visits in the midst of chronic suffering
Categories: Feature ArticlesAllow yourself to be open and vulnerable. People who suffer live with difficult questions. It is good to discuss them.
‘Where is God?’
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt’s hard to imagine a force powerful enough to keep an academic from his books, a father from playing with his children, a husband from attending to the wife he…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. How big is the problem of poverty in your community? What local initiatives have tried to reduce poverty? Have they been successful? What circumstances lead to high levels of…
The ART of hope
Categories: Feature Articles“The poor will be with you always.” That is the message that seems to have been so frequently taken away from the gospel when we talk about poverty. That’s not…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. How important is the Bible in your life? Do you think the church has lost its commitment to the Bible? Is your church presently wrestling with any passages of…
Wrestling with our identity
Categories: Feature ArticlesAfter being called the Son of God at his baptism, Jesus was challenged by the devil, underscoring the connection between this identity and action: “If you are the Son of…
Re-imagining touch as a spiritual practice
Categories: Feature ArticlesPinch the skin on the back of your hand, then release it and watch it fall. Your skin gradually slides back into place. Constantly healing and being recreated, our skin…
CIDA minister praises MEDA project
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe sustainable approach to economic development in Ethiopia by Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) was recognized recently by Julian Fantino, Canada’s minister for international cooperation. During his visit, Fantino met…
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