Issue: Number 22

  • Readers write

    Canada enjoys world-wide respect and admiration

  • For discussion

    1. Do you consider yourself as a rational being or more of an emotional being? Do you find others reacting more rationally or more emotionally? In what ways has the Mennonite Church tended to appeal to our heads rather than our hearts? Has this been changing? 2. What vision or picture do you have of…

  • Culture and character

    Culture and character

    After many hours of methodical and systematic doubting of all that he held certain, seventeenth-century French philosopher Rene Descartes came to an astounding conclusion: the only thing that he could know for certain, beyond any reasonable doubt, was that he was a thinking creature. His famous dictum, “I think, therefore I am,” ostensibly gave him…

  • ‘Political reminder’ disturbing

    ‘Political reminder’ disturbing

    When I received a registered letter from Canada Revenue Agency reminding me, as editor, of limitations on registered charities regarding partisan political activities, I took it personally.