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…
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…
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,…
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…
‘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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Money and the Menno millennials
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs a kid, I grew up with the ritual of walking to the front of my church and dropping a few coins in the donation box every Sunday. But as…
MCC celebrates, serves where its work began
Categories: Feature ArticlesUnder shade trees in a city park on June 16, about 40 Anabaptists shared a picnic of corn grits, rye bread and warm cocoa. The unusual menu held symbolic…
Holy Spirit fire and imagination
Categories: Feature Articles“Sing a new church into being,” sang the 300-plus people gathered for the first nationwide meeting of Mennonite Church Canada since its restructuring in 2017. Behind the blended voices was…
Four decades of welcome
Categories: Feature ArticlesToronto United Mennonite Church was the first church in Canada to receive privately sponsored “boat people” who were fleeing Vietnam and Laos during the chaos of the Vietnam War. Early…
The gifts of grey hair
Categories: Feature Articles“O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me,…
Who is my neighbour?
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe language is stark: crisis, epidemic, tragedy. The facts are startling. According to a Government of Canada website, opioid-related overdose has become the No. 1 cause of death for people…
When it’s hard to go to church
Categories: Feature Articles“I love my church. It is very important to me, but you won’t be seeing me on Sunday morning as often,” Cara Baergen told her congregation in a sermon preached at…
The Ascension of our Lord
Categories: Feature ArticlesPreached at Waterloo North Mennonite Church, Waterloo, Ont., on Ascension Sunday, 2018. Based on Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:1-11, and Ephesians 1:15-23 Today’s readings have made me think a great deal about…
God has swept us together
Categories: Feature ArticlesNear the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frodo speaks memorable words to his fellow hobbit Sam about the adventure that lies before them: “It’s a dangerous…
Consider it (re)settled
Categories: Feature ArticlesMore than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) since it negotiated an agreement with the government on March 5, 1979. This historic agreement established…
Raspberry capital beckons Gathering 2019
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe raspberry capital of Canada, the most charitable city in Canada, the Bible Belt of Canada. These terms have all been used to describe Abbotsford, the site of Mennonite Church…
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