T-shirt honours fierce biblical women
Categories: NewsA new T-shirt celebrates women of the Bible who often get overlooked. The shirt features 11 phrases, including “Teach like Junia,” “Preach like Mary,” “Lead like Esther” and “Risk like…
Mennonite mission?
Categories: NewsIn her new memoir, The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar describes Mennonites as “something that seems very odd, at least at first: an evangelizing tribe.” This tribe, she says, “travels the…
Music copyright in an age of online church
Categories: NewsThe COVID pandemic brought many changes—some obvious, others not so much. Before March 2020, many church musicians sang and played hymns and songs regularly in their worship services. For those…
Are Canadian Mennonites too progressive?
Categories: NewsWhat sets apart faith-based justice work from secular causes? Do we lack spiritual depth? Are we too progressive for our own good? Ryan Dueck, Cynthia Wallace and Peter Haresnape will…
Quilting across continents
Categories: NewsGreat winter warm-up By Nikki Hamm Gwala Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba For Judy Hildebrand of Crystal City, Man., brightly coloured comforters add cheer to long prairie winters. Hildebrand is a…
Meet MC Canada’s new Indigenous relations coordinator
Categories: NewsIf there are places where the church is centring the voices of people on the margins, Jonathan Neufeld wants to be there. “Theologically, that’s my home,” says Neufeld, Mennonite Church…
Cross culture: three languages, one church
Categories: NewsSix Vancouver Mennonite congregations launched the new year by singing, praying and worshipping together in three languages. The service, held at Sherbrooke Mennonite Church on January 8, brought together 210…
Mennonites respond to recent military spending
Categories: NewsFrom Dirk Willems loving his enemy in 1569 to Colombian Mennonites building peace today, Anabaptists have offered a bold peace witness. But being a peace church is complicated. Anabaptists got…
Steinbach writer explores ‘Mennotoba’
Categories: NewsErin Koop Unger has travelled the world, but these days it’s Manitoba and the Mennonites who live there that have captured her imagination. Koop Unger is the creator of Mennotoba.com,…
Soup to change the world
Categories: NewsTrudy Enns and Tim Albrecht of the Christian Benefit Shop in St. Catharines highlight Raw Carrot soup packages in the store. (Photo courtesy of Tim Albrecht) Thrift stores sell a…
Anabaptist Worship Network supports worship and song leaders
Categories: NewsCongregational needs for worship resources and support skyrocketed when the pandemic roared into full swing and people struggled to create meaningful worship experiences in an online world. Two Mennonite worship…
Backyard bakery creates community
Categories: NewsOne might be able to live on bread alone, at least according to Jacquie Loewen. The resident of Winnipeg’s West End neighbourhood has spent the past year building a stone…
Socks, socks and more socks
Categories: NewsThe youth group at United Mennonite Church of Black Creek were thinking about Christmas stockings in December, but not what they would find in their own. They were all about…
What is Mennonite identity and why does it matter?
Categories: News“Why are you a Mennonite?” That’s the question panellists were asked at the third instalment of Canadian Mennonite’s online discussion series. People on 47 different screens tuned into the Nov.…
Ontario MB leader ousted, two churches suspended
Categories: NewsEd Willms had high hopes when he organized a Sept. 13 event for about 45 pastors and other leaders from the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (ONMB) to talk…
Youth converge in Essex County
Categories: NewsLike many of their peers in Mennonite Church Canada congregations, the youth pastors in Leamington were wondering how to react to declining Sunday school participation and overall shrinking numbers of…
MC Canada churches receive grants from MDS fund
Categories: NewsA Mennonite Church Eastern Canada congregation is among five Canadian churches that received grants this fall from the 2022-23 Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada Spirit of MDS Fund. The purpose…
A welcoming space for U of M students
Categories: NewsAfter two years of online learning during the pandemic, Andrew Enns is finally experiencing in-person learning on the University of Manitoba campus. Enns, a third-year student in the agriculture program,…
Joy and love: Christmas Eve vigil in Kenya
Categories: NewsOne of the most outstanding Christmas traditions among communities in Kenya is having vigils popularly know as “Kesha” on Christmas Eve. Most worshippers come together to celebrate the birth of…
Diverse responses to Hockey Canada scandal
Categories: NewsLike other Canadians, many Mennonites watch or play hockey. But in the wake of Hockey Canada’s recent sexual-assault scandal, some Canadian Mennonites are considering what it means to be a…
