Should taxes fund Canada’s military?
Categories: Feature ArticlesResolution: Be it resolved that Canada would be more secure if funding were re-allocated from the military to development at home and abroad. Speaker for the resolution: Professor Constance Candida…
The Bible and Holy Spirit in tension
Categories: Feature ArticlesUpdate: In October 2020, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada announced the termination of the ministerial credentials of John D. Rempel, on the basis of ministerial sexual misconduct. To learn more, see ‘Credentials…
An uncommon welcome
Categories: Feature Articles“As part of my probation conditions, I have to stay away from places where there are families,” says Joe Patterson, “so that made finding a church hard.” It didn’t help…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. Do you know people like Sue and Bill in the story? Does your congregation provide Sunday school classes that appeal more to Sue or to Bill? Do you see…
Essentials of the postmodern church
Categories: Feature ArticlesBe honest in everything. Be open about our ignorance. Be open to questions and discussion about anything. Care for the other (locally and globally), without hope of…
Christianity no longer dominates western society
Categories: Feature ArticlesShould Christians in North America and Europe understand the Bible in fresh ways in an era when Christianity no longer dominates western civilization? Yes, says a British professor, Lloyd Pietersen,…
Just what is ‘postmodern’?
Categories: Feature Articles“Staying for Sunday School, Bill?” “I’m staying, Sue, but not for Sunday school. I’m going to hang out with the ‘coffee drinkers’ in the kitchen. We have some really good…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What are the demographics of your congregation? What percentage is over 65? How many of those are frail elderly? What programs or ministries are designed specifically for seniors? Do…
“Your congregation knows how to care for seniors”
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen Gloria Dirks was retiring from the joint position of Administrator and Director of Care at Parkwood Mennonite Home in Waterloo, Ont. in 2003, she knew she wanted to use…
Caring for our seniors
Categories: Feature ArticlesAcross the country, many MC Canada churches are staring at the numbers and scratching their heads. As young people drift away from the church and the baby boomers retire, church…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What technology does your congregation use in worship? What are the challenges to learning how to use new technology in worship? How much power is wielded by those who…
Is technology enriching our worship?
Categories: Feature ArticlesTechnology is the single most significant characteristic of modern western culture. Canadian philosopher George Grant contends it has long displaced democracy and capitalism as top identifiers. Technology directly shapes Christian…
Salvation comes to a rich house
Categories: Feature ArticlesMoney, business, salvation and the kingdom of God. You won’t often find these words sharing the same sentence, but they do belong together in the Gospel of Luke. It turns…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. According to Larry Miller, the last two decades have been a time of fundamental change for Anabaptists around the world. What changes have you seen in Mennonite World Conference…
Miller was a ‘migrant missionary’
Categories: Feature Articles“You were a new kind of ‘migrant missionary’ described in John Howard Yoder’s As You Go,” said Bert Lobe, in an evening of memories of Larry Miller at Rockway Mennonite…
‘A place that gives life’
Categories: Feature ArticlesLarry Miller remembers one moment clearly when, as a 38-year-old, he was weighing whether or not to accept the nomination to lead Mennonite World Conference (MWC). The year was 1988…
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Categories: Feature Articles1. What experience have you had with the King James Version? Historically, how was it used in your congregation? How familiar do the words of the KJV sound to you?…
Creation history of the King James Version
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe King James Version was not the first attempt at an English translation of the Bible. John Wycliffe, together with others, had already published a complete English Bible by 1382,…
A Bible meant to be read with your ears
Categories: Feature ArticlesHave you heard the Bible recently? Not read it, but listened to it—heard the words of Scripture, not just seen them on the page. We don’t hear the Word of…
‘I’m the Mother Jesus now’
Categories: Feature ArticlesChristmas came early at our house in Winnipeg this year. Most likely because now that we’re retired, my husband and I again have the opportunity of looking at the world…
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