Remembering Rachel Held Evans
Author Rachel Held Evans impacted thousands of people. (Photo courtesy of RachelHeldEvans.com)
When Rachel Held Evans died on May 4 at the age of 37, it shocked the thousands of people who follow her work.
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Watch: “I Am a Mennonite” trailer
Paul Plett is filming a documentary exploring his Mennonite roots. (Photo courtesy of YouTube)
Winnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett has announced his next project: a documentary exploring his Mennonite roots.
Watch: International Witness update
Tom and Christine Poovong, with their children Phimchanok and Joseph, are Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers in Khon Kaen, Thailand. (Photo courtesy of MC Canada)
Mennonite Church Canada has released a video that provides an update on its International Witness ministry. The video was shown at regional church gatherings over the past few months and posted to YouTube. Watch it below.
Watch: “77-76” by Royal Canoe
Golden boys: Royal Canoe released its latest album, Waver, earlier this year. (Sam Katz)
Winnipeg's Royal Canoe have released a politically-charged music video for a song off its latest album, Waver.
“The new video for ‘77-76’ is about history repeating itself,” the band states on its Facebook page.
Praying through the decades
A Sunday school assignment began a Canadian woman’s lifelong investment in prayer. (congerdesign/Pixabay)
A Sunday school assignment in the 1940s to exchange letters with a missionary began a Canadian woman’s lifelong investment in prayer for India.
Watch: Raw Carrot at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
The Raw Carrot employs individuals on the Ontario Disability Support Program to cook and package handcrafted gourmet soup. (Facebook.com/TheRawCarrot)
A social enterprise run partially out of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont. was in the spotlight recently.
CTV News broadcast a short segment about the Raw Carrot earlier this month.
Conscientious (tax) objectors
Charlotte and Ernie Wiens divert 10 percent of what they owe the government each year to Conscience Canada’s Peace Tax Trust Fund. (Photo by Lori Enns)
Like other Canadians, every year Ernie and Charlotte Wiens file their taxes.
Unlike others in Canada, the La Salle, Man. farming couple doesn't send the federal government everything it says they owe—the part that violates their conscience.
For Ernie, 72, and Charlotte, 69, that’s the estimated 10 percent of Canada’s budget spent on the military.
Watch: The art of guitar-making
Winnipeg pastor Phil Campbell-Enns makes guitars in his spare time. (Photo courtesy of YouTube)
Phil Campbell-Enns, associate pastor at Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, has a unique hobby: building guitars.
In the two-minute video below, Campbell-Enns takes viewers into his workshop for a quick look at how he does it.
Rudy Wiebe honoured with CMU Pax Award
'I have received many other awards, but to get an award like this from my own community is really important to me,' acclaimed Mennonite writer Rudy Wiebe says. (Photo by J.D. Sloan)
Fifty-seven years ago, a young Mennonite author published a book that turned the Canadian Mennonite world upside down.
Rudy Wiebe on Omar Khadr, Miriam Toews, MB Herald and more
Rudy Wiebe, pictured with Conrad Grebel University College professor Hildi Froese Tiessen after a reading at Conrad Grebel in January 2012. (Photo by Dave Rogalsky)
During a recent interview focusing on his debut novel and recent CMU Pax Award, acclaimed Mennonite writer Rudy Wiebe spoke on a variety of topics, including Omar Khadr, Miriam Toews, the western Canadian Indigenous story and the MB Herald.
Here's what he had to say.