For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. What aid agencies do the people of your congregation support? Do Mennonites in Canada see Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) as primary or just one of many agencies? How strong…
What has made MCC work well?
Categories: Feature ArticlesI grew up with the admonition, “self-praise stinks,” a phrase best expressed in the Pennsylvania-German dialect. During my years as executive secretary of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) from 1985-96, I…
‘Readers deserve another perspective’
Categories: Feature ArticlesCanadian Mennonite has dedicated significant analysis to the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Wineskins process (Dick Benner’s Nov. 29, 2010 editorial, “Congregations, too, want ‘new wineskins,’ ” page 2; and Will Braun’s…
Without Love, We’re Dead
Categories: Feature Articles“We have cracked the code of love,” announced Sue Johnson, EdD, author of Hold Me Tight to 1,200 people attending “Conversations on Attachment – Integrating the Science of Love and…
Blanket exercise plums the depth of injustice to aboriginals
Categories: Feature ArticlesEarly relationships between European settlers and aboriginals were characterized by cooperation and interdependence, John Bartel, a farmer from Drake, Sask., and a member of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s Ministries Commission, told…
Election Tools for Your Church: Challenge Your Candidates
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt’s election time in Canada once again. You might be wondering if this election really matters, or if your vote can really make a difference. That’s why it is timely…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How was your spirituality formed as you grew up? In what ways has Mennonite spirituality been changing? 2. Do you feel that you encounter God through your current spiritual…
We don’t need to be more Anabaptist
Categories: Feature ArticlesOver thirty pastors and lay people gathered earlier this year to hear Arnold Snyder, retiring Conrad Grebel University College professor of history, give two two-hour long lectures on Anabaptist-Mennonite spiritual…
Spiritual formation resources
Categories: Feature ArticlesBooks A Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster A Mennonite Woman by Dawn Ruth NelsonDiscover Your Spiritual Type by Corinne Ware Dissident Discipleship by David Augsburger Experiencing God by Henry…
A way of life
Categories: Feature ArticlesHowever difficult this book is to read, Dawn Ruth Nelson has done the church a significant service in her study. Her effort to both diagnose the malaise in North American…
My journey into prayer
Categories: Feature ArticlesGrowing up in a family with an Evangelical Mennonite bent meant that I early on learned about going to church. While we had prayers at meals, bedtime and on special…
Encountering the living God
Categories: Feature ArticlesGod is a living God who encounters us in our daily lives.” So said Arnold Snyder, professor of history at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., during a Reformation Sunday…
When you come . . .
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn addition to the usual Assembly 2011 activities, local organizers have planned a number of tours of Waterloo Region, including: Historic Ebytown. Engage the historical Mennonite presence in downtown Kitchener…
Meet me at the Grand!
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt is 1786. The first Swiss Mennonites have just arrived in Ontario, having travelled from Pennsylvania in Conestoga wagons. They crossed the mighty Niagara River by taking the wheels off…
Mennonite workers appeal for prayer for Burkina Faso
Categories: Feature ArticlesJeff Warkentin, Mennonite Church Canada worker in Burkina Faso, West Africa, has sent out a prayer appeal in light of continued political unrest in Ouagadougou, the capital city. Six years…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. When did your congregation first have a woman preach a sermon or first have a woman pastor? How open was the congregation to this change? Were there surprises in…
‘I don’t have to prove anything’
Categories: Feature ArticlesThroughout her childhood and youth Martha Smith Good believed her conservative Swiss Markham-Waterloo Mennonite church north of Toronto was all about rules and regulations. “In my spirit/soul I knew there…
You don’t have to be perfect
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt was the simple yet profound welcome she received as a stranger in a Mennonite church that made all the difference to Erin Morash, who says she grew up in…
Not her gender, but her age that’s an issue
Categories: Feature ArticlesRecently ordained, Emily Toews—at 35—is the youngest female lead pastor in Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. She has served for four years at North Star Mennonite Church in Drake, and clearly enjoys…
Not a stereotype
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs far as I know, I’m the only one. I’m the only home-grown Alberta woman who left the province, studied in Mennonite institutions, and is a pastor back here. Friends…
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