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The twilight of Mennonite radio
Categories: Feature ArticlesManitoba’s airwaves are full of Mennonite radio. I began to notice this last year when I started hosting a radio program for Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), where I also work. …
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A beautiful tapestry of yellow
Categories: Feature ArticlesI have a problem with dandelions. Late spring is high season for dandelions, when those bright-yellow blooms make their presence in yards and fields abundantly clear. Within a month or two,…
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Open to us a door
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhen Hymnal: A Worship Book came out in 1992, “What is This Place” was chosen to be the lead hymn in the collection. The first line describes the church building…
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Anxiety
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs the effects of COVID-19 grow, I am observing a variety of emotional reactions in myself and others. COVID-19 touches everyone’s life. If it isn’t personal illness or loss, we…
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Encounters with the church in Cuba
Categories: Feature ArticlesSixteen Anabaptist Christians from Canada and the United States came to Cuba from Jan. 12 to 16 to learn about the church there. I was one of them. Jack and…
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Well rooted, well winged
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor most of us, the biblical canon with its 66 “books” has always been a given, inherited from the past, our parents and churches. We have not concerned ourselves very…
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Love in the time of COVID-19
Categories: Feature ArticlesThursday, as I sat down to a board meeting for the Micah Mission, a restorative justice organization in Saskatoon, I got the news that the Juno Awards show was being…
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Out of holy weakness, mysterious power arises
Categories: Feature ArticlesI could not have predicted the responses I got when I asked 15 Mennonite Church Canada pastors—all women—how they would explain the meaning of the cross and resurrection to a…
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‘Marvellous . . . yet so repulsive’
Categories: Feature ArticlesSoren Kierkegaard once famously said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” So often it’s only after we’ve lived through something that we can look…
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A call to strengthen our core
Categories: Feature ArticlesA year ago I asked my oldest daughter, who was in the middle of a master of physiotherapy program at the University of Manitoba, to help me figure out what…
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Who was I that I could hinder God?
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…
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Learning to live with technology
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe internet and the myriad technologies that have accompanied its rise to media supremacy have transformed the way people communicate. For better or worse they have also transformed education. As…
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Encountering the gifts of a global church
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe world is getting smaller. Peoples, places and cultures that in the past existed in distant lands may today be just around the corner. Here in North America, because of…
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Empower children . . . end poverty
Categories: Feature ArticlesThis year marked the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Fittingly, the theme of the 2019 Universal Children’s Day, held on Nov. 20,…
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Proclaiming Immanuel
Categories: Feature ArticlesI was eight years old. That year, the Sunday school Christmas pageant was going to be a no-fuss event. All the kids were going to stand up in a line, each…
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‘Taste and see that stuff is good’
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe human struggle has always been—and always will be—between worshiping the God who made us or worshiping a god that we have to make for ourselves. Secularism is a myth…
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The world in colour
Categories: Feature ArticlesIf the Bible is a story, it is also something more: It’s a book that dares to make an authoritative claim on life. Between the poems and proverbs and parables,…
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A disarmed heart
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…
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Faithful practices on a dying planet
Categories: Feature ArticlesOver the last few months, the reality of the climate crisis we are in the midst of has started to strike me in a new and terrible way. As the…
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Giving in the digital age
Categories: Feature ArticlesWe are now living in a full-blown digital world. With just one click or voice command we can ask Google for a chicken recipe, order office supplies or give to…
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