Bogale Kebede: Apostle to the Kaffa
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs the notorious persecutor Saul of Tarsus was transformed by God’s grace and is now remembered as the “apostle to the gentiles,” so Bogale Kebede, charged and imprisoned for murder,…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What powerful stories have you heard in your congregation? Who did the telling? What was the setting? What made the story powerful? How did it influence the teller or…
Storytelling and the people of God
Categories: Feature ArticlesReading the Bible for ethics calls for a new approach to community. Above all else, it calls for the centrality of storytelling: storytelling at the centre of the community, between…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. Who in your congregation takes a leadership role in interpreting the Bible? How do they acquire that role? What happens if anyone challenges their interpretation? Who has been most…
Power and community
Categories: Feature ArticlesReading the Bible for ethics is an act of power. Reading the Bible for ethics is about using the language and images of the Bible to transform ourselves and those…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. Bruce Hiebert says we will make better ethical decisions if our brains are filled with biblical images. Do you find his arguments convincing? Have we been doing a good…
Imagination, hope and peace
Categories: Feature ArticlesReading the Bible for ethics is no easy task. It means facing an obscure document held as vital by an older generation, but of increasing irrelevance to a changing world.…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. Tom Yoder Neufeld says that teaching and learning are acts of faith, especially when it comes to sacred texts such as the Bible (page 6). What learning or teaching…
In conversation with Tom Yoder Neufeld
Categories: Feature ArticlesRWM: For much, if not all, of your adult life, you have served as a chaplain, pastor or professor. What—or who—were the influences in your growing-up years that led you…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. How has your community been impacted by the drive for economic development? What has your community lost through development and what has it gained? How are decisions made about…
Crossing the (pipe) line
Categories: Feature ArticlesI never expected that Enbridge—the Calgary-based pipeline company best known for its contentious Northern Gateway proposal and a nasty spill from one of its U.S. lines in 2010—would push its…
New president believes value in Bible-based education
Categories: Feature ArticlesBryan Born, the new president of Columbia Bible College sees his goal as equipping and encouraging the students to become “fully devoted followers of Jesus,” and that means more than…
Ank de Vlas: A life devoted to Kenya’s runners and students
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn recent decades, young people from the Kalenjin community in the highlands of Kenya have dominated all levels of competitive athletic running events around the world. They have been described…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. Wendy and Phil Reimer describe some instances when God intervened in the lives of Christians. Can you think of similar experiences that you or other Christians have had? Why…
Learning from my Grosspa about the voice of God
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn my earliest recollection Jacob Janzen was 60-something. He was not the oldest person I knew and rather undistinguished. He came walking tiredly up the sidewalk to the house in…
Distinguishing the voice of God can be difficult
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe following articles are from a presentation by Wendy and Phil Dyck at Rockway Mennonite Church several months ago.
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What are some of your warm “waiting for Christmas” memories? What is it about Advent and Christmas family traditions that make them so special? Do you have negative memories…
Coming home
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn my first year at Canadian Mennonite University, my first year away from home, I kept a running countdown to the Christmas holidays on the whiteboard stuck to my dorm…
A father’s perspective on Advent
Categories: Feature ArticlesOur childhood returns to us through our children—especially in the season of Advent.
What Advent means to me
Categories: Feature ArticlesAdvent means memories, traditions, plans, lists, emotions and thoughts. In my youth in western Canada, growing up in a Mennonite Brethren (MB) community, Advent was a season. It was not…
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