Volume 21, Number 16
Readers write: August 28, 2017 issue
Happy birthday, CM!
A community with a sense of ‘we’
Relational trust
God’s heartbreak
While training as a family therapist, I learned the term “emotional cut-off.” It was not a dynamic I was personally familiar with; my particular family tends to be on the opposite side of the spectrum. We are often so closely entwined in each other’s lives that a little more breathing space would be desirable, healthy even. As it suggests, emotional cut-off refers to ruptures in families.
Contagious generosity
Sieburg women
Simple but not easy
I’ll melt with you
Our family was fortunate enough to see an iceberg this summer near Twillingate, N.L. It was a surreal experience for me. Everything around me paused for a brief transcendent moment, frozen in time, with the ironic exception of the massive spire of ice in front of me. “I’ll Stop the World and Melt With You” by the 1980s band Modern English began playing in the back of my mind.
Vietnamese Fellowship drops ‘Mennonite’ name
Best practices begin with prayer
While many congregations are shuttering or repurposing their education wings, Leamington United Mennonite Church built a whole new addition in 2011, replacing a 1959 building that had been linked to their new worshipping and office space when they were built in 1984.
No longer ‘a repository of artifacts’
Camp Moose Lake now sold
Lamenting the ‘discovery’ of North America
‘Colombia fever’
Despite warnings from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Low German Mennonites from drought-prone regions of northern Mexico have bought over 20,000 hectares of land in Colombia.
Pollution in the Heavenly Province
A very special relationship
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