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Welcome Kathryn Lymburner
We are delighted to announce that Kathryn Lymburner will become the next publisher of Canadian Mennonite. We’ll include the announcement in our May issue, but I wanted you to know now. With my term as publisher wrapping up, I look forward to moving on to new endeavours, but I will miss the cross-Canada connections we…
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Enough grace
We’ve had several people reach to us, excited to join in fasting with our digital detox. Their reasons are many. Some spend too much time “doomscrolling.” Others always want to be in the know, or have a life filled with noise. People are planning to read a daily devotional or send notes of appreciation to…
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Pulling back the curtain
You’ve probably noticed over the last year that Canadian Mennonite has moved to having a theme to the feature of most issues. As we begin each new issue, we share the theme with our correspondents and columnists, although sometimes they instead pursue articles connected with their region or another story. Once we start to get…
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How to get young people into church
When my husband and I joined our church—Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite—a few years ago, we joked that we (in our 50s) were the youth group. A year later, the church hired a young adult as our church administrator. She came with excellent skills—and lots of questions about God, the church and faith. It had been years…
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Algorithm override
For once, I don’t actually have much to say, so I heartily encourage you put down your device (not in your pocket) or walk away from your computer. Go outside. Look out the window. Take a breath. Be still and know. Pray. Rest. Wait. Seriously. (Then return to the links below, especially the first one; it’s…
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If one part suffers…
News flooded in last week that a congregation in my city had experienced another tragic loss. Mother and daughter, Jennie and Zoe Wiebe, who attended Waterloo North Mennonite, were killed in a car accident, while Jennie’s son Josh was badly injured. Some of you knew them well and are grieving deeply. Others may never have…
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Sorting good from bad without being defensive
I was interested to attend the annual Bechtel Lecture about Anabaptist beginnings at Conrad Grebel University College delivered by Karl Koop, professor of theology and history at Canadian Mennonite University last Friday. He discussed the widespread social upheaval of 1524-25 which surrounded and informed our forebears, noting that the Schleitheim confession that Anabaptists adopted in…
