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Justice in the name of Jesus
Categories: Feature ArticlesSome Mennonites raise their hands when they sing. Others don’t. Some attend climate rallies and examine decolonization. Others don’t. Some Mennonites hear sermons focused on the Word and personal relationship…
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A small regional church with big impact
Categories: Feature ArticlesYou are easily forgiven for not knowing that Edmonton is a beach city. In spite of its northern location and prairie landscape, sandcastles and sunbathers began appearing along a bank…
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Called to deep hope
Categories: Feature ArticlesMary Magdalene couldn’t have known the end of the story—how things would turn out. How could she? She, and the rest of the disciples, were no different from the rest…
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Worship through visual art
Categories: Feature ArticlesOne of the striking things about Voices Together, the new Mennonite song collection, is that it includes 12 pieces of visual art. Images reach into our lives in a different…
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‘Who are we as the church now?’
Categories: Feature ArticlesJustin Sun has never known pastoring other than during a pandemic. A year-and-a-half into his first pastorate, he says, “It’s been rough. How do I even do this job? I…
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‘God didn’t create you wrong’
Categories: Feature ArticlesAlthough some Mennonite churches in Canada have wrestled with whether to accept LGBTQ+ people in their congregations, the conversation around queer issues is rapidly expanding in the public sphere. Gender…
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Biblical companions on my cancer journey
Categories: Feature ArticlesMy family does cancer in a big way. In my immediate family of five members, there have been 10 occasions when a doctor told one of us that we have…
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Simple wonder, peculiar generosity
Categories: Feature ArticlesAnnie Janzen earned no degrees and was never elected chair of a church council. She did not start a church, write a best-seller or perform for large audiences. She did…
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Let’s talk about power
Categories: Feature ArticlesDid you know, there are over 650 occurrences of the word “power” in the Bible? Dunamis, a Greek word for power, occurs 120 times in the New Testament and means…
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What if we stayed together?
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat do we do when we disagree with people in our church? There are lots of reasons to disagree. We can disagree about how we talk about salvation, about who…
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Mary’s story: Our inheritance
Categories: Feature ArticlesMary’s story comes to us this year, maybe in a new way, at a time when we welcome some really good news. We could use an encouraging, empowering and heart-warming…
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Advent and idolatry
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian year, so it would be appropriate to greet each other with the recognition that a new year has begun.…
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Tending the cairn
Categories: Feature ArticlesA public apology is one of many ways that a church may address past wrongs and those persons who have been harmed. Right now, for example, even following the apology…
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The great Mwenezi cook-off
Categories: Feature ArticlesAll of Joseph Gudo’s hard work was summed up in one small plate of food. He’d laboured for months in the field and uncountable hours in the kitchen all in…
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Defund the police?
Categories: Feature ArticlesOn March 11, 2020, the day before Manitoba reported its first infection of the coronavirus, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land stood up in a multipurpose room at First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg to…
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Meeting on the common ground of God’s love
Categories: Feature ArticlesDo Mennonites believe there is something intrinsically, inherently important about our denominational institutions? If you think not, then you can skip this article and pick up another article instead. I…
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Three chairs: In, out and up
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen I was taking part in the Ontario Jubilee program in soul care and spiritual direction, one of the principles that guided our time together was that everything we did…
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Learning fluency step by step
Categories: Feature ArticlesRecovering a lost language or learning to speak a language doesn’t happen overnight. But a desire to learn will unbolt the door—swinging it wide open—and fill our lungs with sparkling…
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Creating a cultural shift
Categories: Feature ArticlesAbuse. It’s one of those topics that can stop a conversation dead in its tracks. Yet those who work in the area of abuse response and prevention say that talking…
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All will be well!
Categories: Feature ArticlesLast September, at the school where I teach, the director noted the many restraints and restrictions staff and students were experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It seemed that everywhere…
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