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Sitting in the struggle
Tany Warkentin’s experience on a recent learning pilgrimage in South Africa has inspired her to deepen the connections and relationships she’s forming in her own life and work. “I don’t know if I’ve experienced one week that has caused so much reflection in so many different areas of my life,” Warkentin said.Warkentin, 45, is in…
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MCC opens cannery
Dylan Yantzi can’t wait to start canning. He is the newly minted meat cannery manager at Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCCO), and his enthusiasm for the work ahead was palpable when he took me for a tour of the then-unfinished meat cannery at the MCC Resource Centre (The Hub) in New Hamburg, Ontario, in December.…
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Readers Write: March 2025
Solar story missed the markI was looking forward to reading the story in the December issue about Rockway Mennonite Collegiate’s solar array. But after reading the story, something didn’t feel right.Although the article was entitled “Rockway solar project generates imperfect hope,” I think it would have more appropriately been titled, “Solar project generates hope for…
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Secondary identities
The first identity of a follower of Jesus is “a follower of Jesus.” The church is an alternative city within the city, a new way of being human and being part of a people centred on Jesus. Any other cultural or personal markers may be important, but they must be secondary. If we believe there…
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Lifted by laughter
“Dad, would you rather give up coffee or potatoes for the rest of your life?” This is a game my 16-year-old son likes to play with me. Pitting things I like against one another, to see which one I’ll choose. Coffee has been the champ for a while now. “Potatoes.” He continued. “Okay, coffee or…
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A second helping of grace
I recently visited a church on communion Sunday and watched with delight as a child approached the table not once but twice. He was hungry, it seemed, and the table was open for folks to help themselves. Grinning, he returned to his pew with a second helping of grace. The scene brought me back seven…
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Spirit over algorithm: An invitation
If you worry that digitization is corroding your soul, or if you just don’t know how to square the digital demands of our era with the circle of life you want to live in, we invite you to undertake some form of de-digitized experiment for Lent. Starting March 5, cut screens back in some way…
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Mennonite Church USA joins multifaith coalition
WASHINGTON, DC – The Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown Law has filed a lawsuit on behalf of over two dozen Christian and Jewish religious denominations and associations in response to the Trump Administration’s rescission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “sensitive locations” policy that had restricted Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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Fired couple reach agreement with MCC
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has reached a financial settlement with John Clarke and Anicka Fast who were terminated in August 2023. MCC will pay the couple $180,000 in exchange for Clarke and Fast withdrawing complaints filed with the Quebec labour board and assuring that no other legal action will follow. The January 22 agreement was…
