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I'm trying to be less critical. Lately, I've noticed my tendency to critique everything. From the beginning. Often before I even have enough information to properly critique. I... Read More
October 6, 2010 | Cheryl Woelk
I'm looking forward to the upcoming issue of the Canadian Mennonite where some attention will be given to the life and work of former Conrad Grebel University College professor A... Read More
September 23, 2010 | Will Loewen
Do we care too much about creation? To continue what I said last week, there are all kinds of good things that can separate us from God. It still is strange to me that Paul would... Read More
September 23, 2010 | Paul Loewen
I first heard of Nel Noddings in a class on "Social and Ethical Issues in Education." Her comments on the ethics of care, that is, putting caring first in ethical decision-making... Read More
September 15, 2010 | Cheryl Woelk
Life is a good thing. I don't think there's anyone who would argue that. In the beginning, God created life. In fact, given that there are plenty of potential times I probably... Read More
September 13, 2010 | Paul Loewen
For anyone following U.S. media, it would seem that there is a divide between Christians and Muslims that has lead to violence in the past and will inevitably lead to more. This... Read More
September 10, 2010 | Cheryl Woelk
Romans 8:38–39 pro­vides a list of all kinds of things. You’re prob­a­bly famil­iar with it. It goes some­thing along these lines, “Nei­ther A nor B, nei­ther C nor D, nei­ther E... Read More
September 6, 2010 | Paul Loewen
At the cor­ner of St. James St and Portage Ave in Win­nipeg is a build­ing which has pro­vided the can­vas for some mas­sive murals for Win­nipeg Hydro. As I passed by the mural... Read More
September 5, 2010 | David Driedger
After the sum­mer of peo­ple com­ing and going, hol­i­days, and uncer­tain sched­ules, we finally returned to wor­ship. Although it felt strange com­ing back up the hill after so... Read More
September 1, 2010 | Cheryl Woelk
Do you know Bradley Manning? And no, he is not related to Preston. Some would argue he is a new American military hero. Some would argue he is a traitor. We have no idea how the... Read More
August 31, 2010 | Will Loewen
I’d like to con­tinue to add to last week’s post. There I made the point that, although we are cer­tainly using tech­nol­ogy more and more for com­mu­ni­ca­tion, human beings will... Read More
August 31, 2010 | Paul Loewen
There’s some­thing about being in God’s cre­ation that seems to stretch time. I feel a sense of abun­dance and re-connection with the Cre­ator of all. Time taken in rest, away... Read More
August 30, 2010 | Cheryl Woelk
Let’s face it, we all use tech­nol­ogy. The fact that we’re read­ing from oth­ers on a blog is evi­dence to that fact. Jeanette and I use email as our pri­mary com­mu­ni­ca­tion... Read More
August 22, 2010 | Paul Loewen
I will be sub­mit­ting a shorter review for print but any­one inter­ested can read a longer engage­ment with a great new col­lec­tion put out by CMU Press, The Gift of Dif­fer­... Read More
August 10, 2010 | David Driedger

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