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The piano ban
Categories: Feature ArticlesOctober 22 was a normal Sunday. I had just arrived at Rockway Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont., when Conrad Brunk approached me. He is a fellow Rockway member, a former…
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Film review: sorrow, joy, anger and faith
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat do we do when we are wronged: Nothing? Stay and fight? Or do we leave? These questions form the backbone of Women Talking, a 2022 film directed by Sarah…
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What about the women of Manitoba Colony?
Categories: Feature ArticlesAfter opening in select movie theatres before Christmas, Women Talking received a wide release last month. For Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, it marked 10 years since she interviewed some of the women…
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Barns and kerchiefs
Categories: Feature ArticlesNot many farmers walk out of a movie theatre and say, “It’s a lot of fun seeing our farm on the big screen.” But that’s what Chris Burkholder thought after…
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Witness
Categories: Feature ArticlesI stand on the very spot where it all began, in a former Catholic church in the village of Pingjum, Netherlands. Here, the priest Menno Simons was called to account…
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Guardians of the past
Categories: Feature ArticlesThrough an easily overlooked side door and down two flights of stairs at Bethany Manor Senior Living Complex in Saskatoon one will find the archival rooms of the Mennonite Historical…
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One-anotherness in Christ
Categories: Feature ArticlesBased on my first-hand experience with the Mennonite church in Canada and the U.S. over the past 18 years, I suspect that far less than 10 percent of primarily white…
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Challenging Holy Land stereotypes
Categories: Feature ArticlesMunther Isaac recently published a book that confronts a longstanding problem in Christian attitudes toward the Holy Land—ignorance, indifference and even hostility to the Palestinian church. Isaac is an Oxford-educated,…
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Women who prepared the way for Jesus
Categories: Feature ArticlesRahab acts by faith Joshua 2:1-21; 6:22-25; Matthew 1:5; Hebrews 11:29-31; James 2:23-26. Beyond the narrative in Joshua and Jesus’ genealogy, Rahab is mentioned two other times in Scripture. Both…
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Listening to the Spirit, with John
Categories: Feature ArticlesAt an Anglican church I know, the congregational response after the reading of Scripture is: “Listen to what the Spirit is saying to the church.” This response captures the dynamic…
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Five pastoral callings
Categories: Feature ArticlesA quiet, years-long journey. A voice speaking in a mosh pit full of teenagers. A love for the church. An unexpected second career. These are just some of the ways…
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Planning a people’s Bible
Categories: Feature ArticlesAnabaptism began in 1525 in Switzerland, when bold young Christians challenged authorities with the radical idea that Scripture spoke clearly to ordinary people who studied the Bible together. Nearly five…
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A defining moment revisited
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn the summer of 2003, as I pondered how to say farewell to a 24-year career as editor of Canadian Mennonite and its predecessor, Mennonite Reporter, a friend suggested I…
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Faithful constancy
Categories: Feature ArticlesHe might be the youth leader, enthusiastically singing the loudest, or the young mother protectively watching over her children as they run among the pews, or the strong-willed divorcée who…
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Gathering 2022
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor the first time since 2019, members from across the five regions of Mennonite Church Canada gathered in person for learning, inspiration and decision-making. Meeting at a conference centre in…
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World assembly small but full of joy
Categories: Feature ArticlesWith its national motto of “unity in diversity,” Indonesia proved a fitting host for the 17th assembly of Mennonite World Conference (MWC)—downsized by COVID-19 restrictions but full of joy, beauty…
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We gratefully acknowledge . . .
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn recent years, whether attending church meetings or public or community gatherings, Canadians may have heard opening words similar to these: “We gratefully acknowledge that we are meeting today on…
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What is a Christlike response to military might?
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs Christians rooted in the Anabaptist tradition, we care deeply about every human being on Earth. We no doubt have felt solidarity with Ukrainians as they struggle against violence and…
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The way is made by walking
Categories: Feature ArticlesLately I’ve had a lot of trouble concentrating. This past week I have spent far too many hours staring at my computer screen without much progress being made. When this…
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Finding value in challenged lives
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat is a human life worth? What makes my own life worthwhile? Is my time valuable only when my efforts add up to some measurable achievement I can document on…
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