Issue: Number 12

  • Reflections at the close of a ministry

    Reflections at the close of a ministry

    Twelve years ago, on beginning as conference minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, I described a painting of a small boat on a large body of water with these words inscribed below: “How frail my craft; how vast yon sea.” I came to this role after 18 years in Toronto, 11 of those as pastor…

  • Readers write

    Intimate worship part of Mennonite DNA

  • ‘This land is us’

    ‘This land is us’

    For five years I lived and worked in the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, with an organization supporting marginalized families living with HIV/AIDS. Although the agonizing combination of poverty and HIV formed a part of my daily experience, AIDS was not the main epidemic that surrounded my life. From 2004-09, El Salvador ranked first…

  • Dusty Bibles?

    Dusty Bibles?

    Dusting off our Bibles for assembly? If indeed they are dusty, something has gone wrong for the people of the Book.