Put on those shoes of peace
Applause broke out in the audience at Floradale Mennonite Church when Kevin Bauman (played by Robb Martin), a recently returned Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) member from Palestine, responded to his uncle Trevor, a Zionist Christian: “But the land belongs to the Palestinians!” It was then that Leon Kehl, Floradale’s congregational chair, knew that something was…
Sophomore CD released to much applause
The Friesen Family Band just keeps getting better! As quickly as the children grow, the seven-member family grows in its music, adding instruments, expertise and new material. On March 24, 2010, the band released its second CD, Dappled Things, at a concert at St. Andrews United Church, Edmonton. The music is fresh and often surprising…
MPN struggling to publish in a digital age
For Mennonite Publishing Network (MPN), the ministry of publishing is growing ever more complex. The mission for the publisher of Mennonite Church Canada and MC U.S.A. remains the same: providing materials to equip the church to experience and share the gospel of Jesus Christ from an Anabaptist perspective. But coping with the impact of the…
New book gives greater voice to minority Reformation traditions
Walter Sawatsky, professor of church history and mission at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), has edited proceedings of two ecumenical consultations in a newly released book, Prophetic and Renewal Movements: The Prague Consultations, published by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC). This volume includes the proceedings of the two most recent consultations in a…
Experiencing the Chaco through Paraguay Primeval
The standing-room-only audience in the Conrad Grebel University College chapel on March 3 listened to street sounds (cars, voices, music), Spanish voices shift into aboriginal ones, German voices, and modern and traditional worship music, while slides of Asunción, Paraguay, morphed into the South American countryside. The latest project of Grebel music prof Carol Ann Weaver,…
A Mennonite artist in the Canadian landscape
A cornucopia of events and exhibits in Waterloo Region has celebrated the centenary of artist Woldemar Neufeld’s birth. Shows in St. Jacobs, at the Waterloo Children’s Museum, Kuntz Gallery in Waterloo, and the Gallery on the Grand in Kitchener have highlighted the painting, drawing and block printing of the artist, who was born in 1909…
