Live theatre returns to Rockway with ‘Anne’
After a two-year hiatus, students at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, in Kitchener, were thrilled to perform Anne of Green Gables. The two-hour play was mounted by a cast and crew spanning grades 7 to12, with people from every grade enthusiastically contributing. Six performances ran from March 30 to April 2. The play was directed by Alan…
Making comforters for Ukraine refugees a community effort
Niagara United Mennonite Church called its congregants and neighbourhood community together to tie comforters in the church basement on March 26. Advertisements in the local newspapers and in church bulletins invited anyone interested to gather for the morning. Emily Fieguth worked together with the church’s Women in Service volunteers to set up 10 quilting frames…
Youths volunteer with MDS over spring break
Several young people from Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C., volunteered with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) during spring break to help victims of last year’s massive flood. Family pastor Rachel Navarro, who had heard about relief projects with MDS in Princeton following the floods last November, learned about the project in nearby Arnold on Sumas…
‘Our blood can change things in your country’
MJ Sharp, a young Mennonite peacemaker from the United States, was killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo five years ago. This book by Marshall King explains not only how and why he died, but it also tells the story of his remarkable life. Although Sharp was not working for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)…
Not just a book of big ideas
Four panels on page 108 of Jonathan Dyck’s graphic novel Shelterbelts are stuck in my mind. I’ve studied these black-and-white images so closely that they appear something like a photo negative when I close my eyes. The first is a wide shot of poplar trees in a field of grass; the second is a medium…
Overcoming the fear of not being believed
Five years ago, a congregant of First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg asked David Driedger about church policy addressing sexual abuse and harassment between members of a congregation, following an incident with another congregant. Driedger, leading minister of First Mennonite, began searching for resources, but “quickly found out this was a gap.” He could not find…
A peacemaker’s guide to Revelation
Menno Media: Jeremy, your book Upside-Down Apocalypse is being referred to as a peacemaker’s guide to the Book of Revelation. What prompted you to write about Revelation? Jeremy Duncan: I have always been drawn to the nonviolence of Jesus. The way that he is able to address complex and volatile situations without capitulating to the…
Laughs at book launch
After several years of pandemic-induced Zoom book launches in B.C., satirist Andrew Unger winged his way to Abbotsford to face a living, breathing audience at the Mennonite Heritage Museum on April 2. Unger is the writer of The Daily Bonnet, an immensely popular online column that has spawned a print book, The Best of the…
‘I wanted to know more about it’
When Marion Roes began researching her family history, she came across some surprises connected to her family’s business. Intrigued, she tried to find out more about local undertakers, but there was almost no material available. So she began collecting information and doing interviews. Her book, Death as Life’s Work: Waterloo Region Undertakers and Funeral Businesses…
Spring 2022 List of Books & Resources
Theology, Spirituality And If I Don’t: Reimagining the Single Life. April Klassen. Schleitheim Press, Kelowna, B.C., 2021, 130 pages. With frankness and honesty, the author explores what it means to be single in today’s culture, and what the Bible has to say about marriage. Although she values marriage, Klassen suggests that it is not…
