It’s election time in Canada once again. You might be wondering if this election really matters, or if your vote can really make a difference. That’s why it is timely to draw... Read More
Features
One of the issues is the cutting of $7 million in renewed CIDA funding to Kairos of which Mennonite Central Committee is a member
April 6, 2011 | Feature | Dan Dyck
1. How was your spirituality formed as you grew up? In what ways has Mennonite spirituality been changing? 2. Do you feel that you encounter God through your current spiritual... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature |
Ray Martin, left, and Scott Brubacher-Zehr, centre, listen to a presentation by Arnold Snyder, retiring Conrad Grebel University College history of theology professor, on the history of Anabaptist-Mennonite spiritual formation beliefs and practices.
Over thirty pastors and lay people gathered earlier this year to hear Arnold Snyder, retiring Conrad Grebel University College professor of history, give two two-hour long... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature | By Dave Rogalsky
Books A Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster A Mennonite Woman by Dawn Ruth Nelson Discover Your Spiritual Type by Corinne Ware Dissident Discipleship by David Augsburger... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature |
However difficult this book is to read, Dawn Ruth Nelson has done the church a significant service in her study. Her effort to both diagnose the malaise in North American... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature | Reviewed by Dave Rogalsky
Growing up in a family with an Evangelical Mennonite bent meant that I early on learned about going to church. While we had prayers at meals, bedtime and on special occasions—like... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature | By Dave Rogalsky
‘Kingdom spirituality’ is well suited to Mennonites. This is the ‘give me something to do for God’ spirituality that goes on peace marches, works with Mennonite Disaster Service, sits at the quilting frame or helps with building projects like the one at Silver Lake Mennonite Camp, Ont., pictured.
God is a living God who encounters us in our daily lives.” So said Arnold Snyder, professor of history at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., during a Reformation... Read More
March 30, 2011 | Feature | By Dave Rogalsky
In addition to the usual Assembly 2011 activities, local organizers have planned a number of tours of Waterloo Region, including: Historic Ebytown. Engage the historical Mennonite... Read More
March 16, 2011 | Feature |
A 1797 Conestoga wagon, refitted with rubber tires, travels from Lancaster, Pa., to Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., in 1952 to mark the centennial of Waterloo County. (File photo by David Hunsberger, Mennonite Archives of Ontario)
It is 1786. The first Swiss Mennonites have just arrived in Ontario, having travelled from Pennsylvania in Conestoga wagons. They crossed the mighty Niagara River by taking the... Read More
March 16, 2011 | Feature | Maurice Martin
Jeff and Tany Warkentin, formerly of Leamington, Ont., Springridge, Alta., and Winnipeg, Man., have three small children. Their assignment is scheduled to end this year.
Jeff Warkentin, Mennonite Church Canada worker in Burkina Faso, West Africa, has sent out a prayer appealRead More
March 16, 2011 | Feature | Deborah Froese
1. When did your congregation first have a woman preach a sermon or first have a woman pastor? How open was the congregation to this change? Were there surprises in who resisted?... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature |
Martha Smith Good, left, talks with Johanna Wall, pastor of the now-closed Warden Woods Church, Scarborough, Ont., in June 2009.
Throughout her childhood and youth Martha Smith Good believed her conservative Swiss Markham-Waterloo Mennonite church north of Toronto was all about rules and regulations. “In my... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature | By Dave Rogalsky
Erin Morash pastors at Trinity Mennonite Church in Mather and Crystal City Mennonite, rural Manitoba congregations 20 minutes apart.
It was the simple yet profound welcome she received as a stranger in a Mennonite church that made all the difference to Erin Morash, who says she grew up in “an extraordinarily... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Emily Toews, left, pastor of North Star Mennonite Church, Drake, Sask., colours alongside the children attending the church’s Vacation Bible School last summer.
Recently ordained, Emily Toews—at 35—is the youngest female lead pastor in Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. She has served for four years at North Star Mennonite Church in Drake,... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature | By Karin Fehderau
Donita and Tim Wiebe-Neufeld are ordained in May 2006 by Jim Shantz, Mennonite Church Alberta conference minister.
As far as I know, I’m the only one. I’m the only home-grown Alberta woman who left the province, studied in Mennonite institutions, and is a pastor back here. Friends in other... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature | By Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
Wilf Dueck, moderator of First Mennonite Church, Burns Lake, B.C., presents Pastor Eve Isaak with flowers and an education bursary from the congregation at her ordination service last June.
Growing up in a very conservative Old Colony Mennonite home in the 1950s and ’60s, I soon learned that education was not encouraged. Church was meant only to attend. I was to keep... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature | By Eve Isaak
Canadian Mennonite profiles the inspiring stories of women pastors from each of Mennonite Church Canada’s five area churches, beginning with Eve Isaak from British Columbia and... Read More
March 2, 2011 | Feature |
Dr. Mark Ragins, a well-known American psychiatrist who has dedicated his life and practice to recreating, improving and sustaining mental health recovery programs, spoke to 200... Read More
February 16, 2011 | Feature | By Ken Reddig
Every one of us deals with mental health challenges. Whether we’re losing sleep about the math exam tomorrow or are hospitalized for schizophrenia, whether we’re on medication for... Read More
February 16, 2011 | Feature | By Byron Rempel-Burkholder
American Mennonite conscientious objectors (COs) working in mental hospitals during World War II decried the deplorable and inhumane treatment of patients. One symbolically... Read More
February 16, 2011 | Feature | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
1. Do you remember comments about physical appearance from when you were young? What attitude did your parents and family have about physical appearance? How did they communicate... Read More
February 2, 2011 | Feature | Canadian Mennonite
I think you know a lot about Jesus’ body, so I invite you to close your eyes and picture some things. Picture Jesus as a baby, his tiny body wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in... Read More
February 2, 2011 | Feature | Carol Penner
1. What has your congregation done to help members dealing with personality disorders, addiction or family dysfunction? How effective has it been? How involved should the... Read More
January 19, 2011 | Feature | Canadian Mennonite
My first experience with pornography was at a corner store when I was nine years old. On a dare, I picked up a Playboy magazine and found that those glossy pictures aroused... Read More
January 19, 2011 | Feature | Mennonite Publishing Network
