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Opinion
October 4, 2024 | Opinion | Arlyn Friesen Epp
Love and Hate I agree with Ryan Dueck’s insightful article, “A place for hate” (June 2024), particularly in today’s harsh world. In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon observed there is a... Read More
October 4, 2024 | Opinion |
So, a struggling actor and a pastor walk into a bar ... What sounds like a setup for a lame joke was my reality one afternoon in the Rockies last year. My wife was attending some... Read More
October 4, 2024 | Opinion | Ryan Dueck, Cindy Wallace, Justin Sun and Anika Reynar
John and Edna Peters, 87 and 86, respectively, live in Winnipeg, where they are charter members of Charleswood Mennonite Church. Edna worked as a nurse and a pastoral coordinator... Read More
October 4, 2024 | Opinion | Susan Fish
Notice: This article mentions addiction, rape and abortion. “I never thought I would set foot in another church.” These were the opening words from Grace Ibrahima’s sermon at... Read More
September 25, 2024 | Opinion | A.S. Compton
In my Zimbabwean African culture, elders are so revered that they are never seen as doing anything wrong. It is considered very rude to argue with one’s elders, even when we are... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Opinion | Barbara Nkala
Are you losing hope in the possibility of everyone getting along? Division in the church is nothing new for me. I grew up in a harsh, conservative fundamentalist church that... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Opinion | Troy Watson
Here in British Columbia—the West of the West, where West and true East meet in North America—we sometimes tend to look more toward the traditionalist faith of the church in Asia... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Opinion | Shelby Boese
For the past three years, the United States has been my home, and in the U.S., division is impossible to ignore. Liberals on the left, conservatives on the right. Of course,... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Opinion | Anika Reynar, Ryan Dueck, Cindy Wallace and Justin Sun
I was nervous the first time I offered a land acknowledgement in church, wondering how people would respond. Afterwards, one person thanked me while another questioned whether a... Read More
August 9, 2024 | Opinion | Heather Block
“You’ve given in to the culture.” I’ve heard this plenty as a Christian – in churches, schools, on social media. From what I can make of it, it is ultimately an allegation of... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Opinion | Justin Sun, Anika Reynar, Ryan Dueck and Cindy Wallace
“It’s nice to get to choose our humility,” my father reflected recently. Sometimes, however, we don’t get to. What do we do when we feel forced to be humble—what we often call... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Opinion | Theo Wiederkehr
Erv and Marian Wiens, both 82, have been married for 60 years. Raised in the Mennonite Brethren Church, they worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Kenya, Zambia, and... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Opinion | Susan Fish
Hello to everyone from the new Mennonite Church Alberta moderator. I believe that who I am influences my approach to serving as moderator, so let me introduce myself. I am, first... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Opinion | Keith Retzlaff
In the history of Ethiopia, Christianity was first introduced into the royal court around the 4th century, gradually spreading among the common people from there. Unlike the... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Opinion | Tigist Tesfaye Gelagle
I have too much stuff and it’s not good for my soul. But let’s barge through whatever guilt we may lug around about material excess and look deeper. At a winter meeting of the... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Editorial | Will Braun
I am not, and have never been, a supporter or apologist for Hamas. I am a Christian, and Hamas is an avowedly Muslim organization. I am a pacifist, and Hamas believes in armed... Read More
July 26, 2024 | Opinion | Jonathan Kuttab
The following opinion piece is an additional response by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to serious concerns raised in our “Involuntary” article (July 2024) as well as in the... Read More
July 19, 2024 | Opinion | Rick Cober Bauman and Anne Graber Hershberger
In 1989, my grandmother, Lorraine Braun, began creating a cookbook for my mother, Maurya. For three decades, she handwrote recipes of foods that were significant in our family or... Read More
July 12, 2024 | Opinion | Fionnuala Braun
A Mennonite Life My story is somewhat different than Troy Watson’s “Am I Mennonite?,” May 2024), but my considerations are similar to his. I was born into a Mennonite family—does... Read More
July 5, 2024 | Opinion |
This issue of CM contains much intense material. I want to take this opportunity to not add to that, (though I had started writing about an unanswerable question I inherited when... Read More
July 5, 2024 | Editorial | Will Braun
I’ve been thinking again about joy. I know this theme is counterintuitive. The scope of violence and injustice in the world is crushing right now, both far away and close to home... Read More
July 3, 2024 | Opinion | Cindy Wallace, Justin Sun, Anika Reynar, Ryan Dueck
Just over a year ago, I invited readers of Canadian Mennonite to share their Holy Spirit experiences with me (April 6, 2023). I was pleasantly surprised by the response. I was... Read More
July 3, 2024 | Opinion | Troy Watson
Every Tuesday evening, my five sisters, two cousins and I join Aunt Musa Mashamba for online prayers. Aunt Musa, who recently celebrated her 99th birthday, remains a vibrant and... Read More
July 3, 2024 | Opinion | Barbara Nkala
