Graduating in a nursing home
Graduation was disappointing, or non-existent, for many high-school students this year thanks to COVID-19. So Karen Chaskavich and the team at Mennonite Nursing Home (MNH) held a graduation celebration of their own. The nursing home, a ministry of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, located just outside of Rosthern, has seven high-school graduates on staff, including two summer…
MWC signs statement against nuclear weapons
August 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has joined a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the world that issued a call to governments to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. “As an historic peace church, MWC opposes war…
CMU details plans for 2020-21 education and operations with framework manual
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) has released its framework for the upcoming academic year, entitled “Learning and living well in an era of pandemic.” The framework offers details for on-campus learning, teaching and life for students, faculty and staff. Overseen by CMU’s Pandemic Response and Recovery Committee, the document will be updated as health guidelines and…
‘This isn’t the situation we hoped for . . .’
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) leaders have been discerning plans for the 2020–21 academic year during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic—with the goal of giving students and employees safe access to campus spaces while making it possible to study or work from home for those who need this option. “This isn’t the situation we hoped for…
‘Remember your baptism’
The final report on the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversation on baptism has been published. The report summarizes five years of theological consultations between the three communions on the understanding and practice of baptism in light of contemporary pastoral and missional challenges facing all three Christian communities. “The report shows that today these three churches agree…
Voices Together sneak peeks
As MennoMedia prepares to release the full list of songs included in Voices Together before the end of August, it is releasing a sneak peek at titles contained within the collection. These nine songs will appear in the various hymnal editions shipping to congregations later this fall: “Total Praise” was written by Richard Smallwood in…
