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When the pain doesn’t go away
Categories: Feature ArticlesJane’s nightmares kept her from getting a good night’s sleep. “They are just terrifying,” she told her doctor. “I wake up almost every night. It’s like someone is suffocating me—like…
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Choosing life
Categories: Feature ArticlesEvery morning I look in the mirror and do not know who might be looking back at me. I wonder what the day will hold. Will it be a day…
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Building up God’s kingdom together
Categories: Feature ArticlesDuring the course of an evening of socializing with mostly pastors and deacons at some denominational committee meetings, discussion turned to the roles and practices of responding to the needs…
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Embarrassing gratitude
Categories: Feature ArticlesA woman—a good family friend—pours perfume worth $25,000 on Jesus’ feet at a dinner party held at her house in his honour. She removes her head scarf, shakes her hair…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. The Christmas season is a time of giving. How does your congregation and/or community get involved in giving during this season? What are we saying when we give gifts?…
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What a difference a year makes
Categories: Feature ArticlesChristmas will be different this year for Winnipeg’s Kathy Okolita. She stands in her newly renovated home surrounded by 18 people who have come to offer a house blessing. She…
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Alternatives to a ‘Consumer Christmas’
Categories: Feature ArticlesMany people spend their evenings and weekends leading up to Christmas scouring the local mall for the perfect gifts for their loved ones, planning their Christmas feast or decorating their…
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Israeli development thwarts peace on earth
Categories: Feature ArticlesEmbedded in the Christmas story is God’s desire for peace on our planet. Luke announced that “peace on earth” was the theme that the angelic choirs sang over the skies…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. In what ways are the people of your congregation involved with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)? Which generations are most involved? How high are the feelings of support and loyalty…
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‘For such a time as this’
Categories: Feature ArticlesWorship is remembering, said the prophet Jeremiah. The past holds regenerative power. I’m a human being living in Canada today because of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC); some of my family…
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MCC centrality questioned
Categories: Feature ArticlesMennonite Central Committee (MCC) is the largest and most influential Anabaptist organization in the world. It has nearly 1,200 workers and an annual budget of $82 million. Its reach extends…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How many trees are planted annually in your community? Are they part of a community initiative? Who plants and waters them? How important is it to plant more trees?…
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A tree is not only something that stands in the way
Categories: Feature Articles“Richard Branson has offered a large prize to anyone who invents a device that will pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. God already invented this device, and we call…
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What’s really under the bonnet?
Categories: Feature ArticlesOn Oct. 2, 2006, the world was stunned by the killing of five Amish schoolgirls in a small schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Within hours, the Amish community forgave the…
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Peeking under the bonnet
Categories: Feature ArticlesA few years ago, when conducting research for my Ph.D. on Amish women in business, I visited a gift shop and noticed a rack of romance novels with pictures of…
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For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. How well would you score on a college entrance biblical literacy quiz? Do you know the answers to the quiz on this page? How/where did you gain knowledge about…
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Bible literacy quiz
Categories: Feature Articles1. Put the following biblical characters in chronological order. A. Daniel / B. Adam / C. Moses / D. Paul / E. David 2. Match the quotes (A-E) with the…
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Should there be a test for citizens of God’s kingdom?
Categories: Feature ArticlesIf I want to become a citizen of the U.S., I need to take a citizenship test. Something similar occurs in Canada when someone wants to become a citizen of…
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Why and how should we study the Bible?
Categories: Feature ArticlesErvin R. Stutzman, the new moderator of Mennonite Church U.S.A., loves the Bible. He recently shared his passion for knowing the Bible and its story with John Longhurst of Mennonite…
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Thy Word I haven’t hid in my heart
Categories: Feature ArticlesEvery year since 1995 Wheaton College—one of America’s preeminent Evangelical post-secondary schools—has tested the Bible knowledge of incoming freshmen students. These students are among the best and brightest of Christian…
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