They had forgotten about the kids. It was the 1980s; two major Mennonite denominations had merged, spending five years and a large sum of money to figure out how to bring the... Read More
Features
Sunday school in St. Catherines, circa 1978. Photo: Centre for Mennonite Bretheren Studies.
October 4, 2024 | Feature | Maurice Martin
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Sunday school has been approached differently by different people. At times, the church has taken a defensive posture: It’s scary out there and we’re going to shelter you and... Read More
October 4, 2024 | Feature | Derek Suderman
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Brent Kipfer’s Mennonite Church Canada pedigree is solid: he grew up at Poole Mennonite Church in Poole, Ontario, attended Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, graduated from Canadian... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun
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Why do people switch or exit a church or denomination? And why do some churches leave a denomination altogether? Chances are you could offer possible reasons from your own... Read More
August 29, 2024 | Feature | Joel Thiessen
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Harv Wiebe—not his real name—did not agree with his congregation’s decision to leave the regional church, but still, he hoped things would work out for the congregation he had... Read More
August 22, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun
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The Mennonite more-with-less ethic is something I have always connected with. Shopping for clothes at the thrift store, commuting by bicycle and eating simple, tasty food are... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Feature | Zach Rempel
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My introduction to Anabaptism began with fire. Let me explain. I grew up in a Presbyterian household, but when I went off to the University of Toronto, a roommate introduced me to... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Feature | Susan Fish
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If I’m not careful, I find myself surrounded by similar-minded individuals who are great at reflecting my own perspectives and values back at me. In a society that continues to... Read More
July 12, 2024 | Feature | Josh Garber
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A couple of years ago my sister and I had hammock party at the park with our friends. The goal of a hammock party is to set up all your hammocks close enough together that you can... Read More
July 5, 2024 | Feature | Alayna Smith
David Boshart, AMBS president, talks with Olufemi (Femi) Fatunmbi, a student from Los Angeles, California, during orientation week in 2021. Opposite page, graduate students meet in the AMBS courtyard in April 2023. Photo: Jason Bryant/AMBS
Ian Funk remembers the last time he arrived on campus at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS)—how he walked into the guest house late at night and was welcomed by a... Read More
July 5, 2024 | Feature | Aaron Epp
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I spent my mid-twenties holding my disability flag high, confident that I’d found my calling. This was my cause. These were my people. Wholly devoted to the disability community... Read More
July 5, 2024 | Feature | Rhianna McGregor Hajzer
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In our May 2024 feature section, you will find: Recovering humanist Allan Rudy-Froese got sick of sermons—including his own—in which ethics overshadowed God, so he took a deep... Read More
June 7, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun
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Allan Rudy-Froese says he “got sick” of hearing sermons that spoke more about “what we should do” than the life of faith. That included his own sermons. Ethics overshadowed God... Read More
June 7, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun
God comes to us in many ways. Sometimes we are keenly aware of God’s presence; at other times we just don’t pay attention. I’d like to tell you about some of the extraordinary... Read More
June 7, 2024 | Feature | Claire Ewert Fisher
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“I think you are a contemplative.” Spoken by my spiritual director, those words caught me off guard. I’m not . . . am I? But the more I thought about it, the more I realized he... Read More
June 7, 2024 | Feature | Doug Amstutz
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“ This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased ” (Matthew 3:17). The scriptures tell us this loving, empowering presence of God is within us all. The heavens open and we are... Read More
June 7, 2024 | Feature | Betty Enns
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We asked numerous people to share three to five words that express the essence of Anabaptism for them. We also invited them to elaborate if they wished. Personal faith... Read More
April 29, 2024 | Feature | Various Contributors
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Part I: For Junia Grace, 2017 Photo by Taylor Summach I don’t like to write sermons. I am, at best, an unlikely preacher in our small Mennonite church. I languished through... Read More
March 6, 2024 | Feature | Emily Summach
Art by Jonathan Dyck
The feature for our February 23, 2024 issue is a 12-page comic by noted graphic novelist Jonathan Dyck. For the piece, Dyck collaborated with Dave Scott, an historian and... Read More
February 22, 2024 | Feature | Jonathan Dyck and Dave Scott
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The disciples were shocked when Jesus said, “One of you will betray me.” Judas’s story is told in different ways in the gospels, giving us some insight into how the disciples and... Read More
February 8, 2024 | Feature | Carol Penner
Emergency response personnel in the Sheikh Radwan area north of Gaza City on October 23, 2023. Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun/ActiveStills.
The gulf appears impossible to bridge. As bombs continue to fall onto Gaza and rockets somehow continue to fly out of Gaza, a conflict nearly as old as time and as entrenched as... Read More
January 25, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun
Gustavo Zentner and Richard Marceau. Supplied photos.
An interview with Gustavo Zentner By Will Braun Gustavo Zentner will never forget visiting areas attacked by Hamas. “We walked into the homes where you can still smell the smell... Read More
January 25, 2024 | Feature | Will Braun & Madalene Arias
On October 1, we launched our book, The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know about Each Other , at the Charles Pachter Museum in Toronto. Guests included... Read More
January 25, 2024 | Feature | By Raja G. Khouri and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson
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“Deeply rooted in our Mennonite psyche is this idea that peacemaking is as simple as sitting across the table from someone and hearing their story,” says Joanna Hiebert Bergen,... Read More
January 25, 2024 | Feature | Madalene Arias
