Readers write
Mennonites need to engage politicians ‘creatively and critically’
For discussion
1. How does your congregation go about making important decisions? Do you use discernment language? How do you listen for the voice of God when you are wrestling with an issue? Who takes leadership in discernment? What is the relationship between discernment and decision-making? 2. Dave Rogalsky refers to the discernment process described in Acts…
Tips to get discernment right
Trust that God is with us throughout the discernment process no matter the decision. Figure out what the issue is. This is really important! We can spend a lot of time trying to discern something without knowing what the issue is. Find out if there are clear requirements to solving the issue, or if the…
Try a little discernment
Discernment is a common topic in our congregations these days. We discern a pastoral call, a building program, theology and biblical texts.
Discernment front and centre
“Discernment,” a word in vogue right now among church leaders and theologians, can seem abstract, almost pedantic, and elusive as an operative term for the person in the pew. We seem to use it a lot these days as we wend our way through issues that confront us as followers of Jesus in the 21st…
A green heritage
Jane Snyder chose the local Seven Shores Urban Market and Café in Uptown Waterloo to meet. Within walking distance of her home, and featuring local produce and fair trade coffee, it met many of the principles to which she, her husband, parents and work hold. Snyder remembers her father choosing to live near both of…
Something new under the sun
There’s nothing new under the sun, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, but in Waterloo Region, Ont., there are lots of new things under the sun: solar projects, that is!
More superheroes . . . or a Saviour?
When an army of nasty aliens in giant reptilian ships threatens to take over the Earth and enslave all of its inhabitants, one superhero is not enough to stand in the way. For a threat of this magnitude, a group of six very diverse superheroes is called for, a group calling itself The Avengers, the…
The heart of a servant
Dale Schiele sees value and worth in that segment of society that most people would rather shun. At age 60, he’ll be retiring from a 30-year career as director of Person to Person (P2P), a volunteer-based prison ministry in Saskatchewan. Beginning work with high-risk sex offenders at a time when many people could barely say…
