They had only 20 minutes to create a skit based on a Bible text and a box of props. It was “creation care” up close and personal for the students and staff at Rosthern Junior... Read More
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RJC students Trissy Murphy, left, and Katie Laye craft earth-friendly Christmas gifts during the school’s Youth Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability (YESS!) Summit on Nov. 28.
December 31, 2013 | Focus On | Story and Photo by Donna Schulz
When my family moved to a rural community in southwestern British Columbia, I didn’t realize how much life and my faith would be challenged. I was born and raised in the Fraser... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
How do we reconcile leading Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder’s theological brilliance with his sexual harassment of a number of his female students? It’s something I’ve been... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Young Voices | Susie Guenther Loewen
Finn Klebe, a Grade 11 student from Germany studying at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, is pictured with Jacob Deng of Wadeng Wings of Hope, an organization committed to helping the rural people of South Sudan.
The staff, students and teachers at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener, Ont., had the privilege to welcome Jacob Deng, one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” to speak to us in... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Focus On | Finn Klebe
Jimmy Juma, centre, coordinator of the African Peacebuilding Institute in South Africa, talks with Mennonite Collegiate Institute students Rebecca Giesbrecht, Karina Letkeman, Renee Peters and Sam Schellenberg during MCC Day at the school on Nov. 21, 2013.
Taking learning beyond the regular classroom, Mennonite Collegiate Institute (MCI) invited Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) on Nov. 21, 2013, as guest speakers engaged students... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Focus On | By Shanda Hochstetler and Peter Epp
The board and staff of MennoMedia, the publishing agency for Mennonite Church U.S.A. and MC Canada, has issued a statement regarding the continued publication of John Howard Yoder... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Artbeat |
Directed by Frances Lawrence. Written by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn (screenplay); Suzanne Collins (novel). Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson and... Read More
December 31, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Vic Thiessen
Frederik de Klerk, left, and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, in January 1992.
I was on Chapter 10 of Alan Paton’s defining South African novel, Cry the Beloved Country, when Nelson Mandela died. The story of the man and the story in the book—published in... Read More
December 31, 2013 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
Three hours before the memorial service for Nelson Mandela began, people gathered to honour their beloved past-president and peacemaker in a celebratory manner. The gathering included singing, dancing, clapping and shouts of ‘Mandela ,you’re my president!’
After a lifetime spent struggling for the emancipation and equality of all, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela can finally rest, his long walk at an end. “Madiba,” as he is affectionately... Read More
December 31, 2013 | God at work in the World | Andrew and Karen Suderman
Early last month an open letter to the leadership of Mennonite Church Canada was posted on a website called FossilFreeMenno.org, asking individuals to sign it, identify their home... Read More
December 31, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
The annual Christmas concert at the rural Manitoba school where Old Order Mennonites normally send their children had to be cancelled last month as the building has sat empty for... Read More
December 31, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Evelyn Rempel Petkau
If there is indeed a "War on Christmas," those on the anti-Christmas side of the war have lost — big time. The television pundits, conservative politicians and talk-radio... Read More
December 23, 2013 | Web First | Charles Austin
Traditionally Mennonite worship did not acknowledge the nuances of the church year. Today more congregations and individuals are seeing the seasons of the church calendar as a... Read More
December 19, 2013 | Web First | Compiled by Ginny Hostetler
Karen and Andrew Suderman and their children
South Africa lost the “Father of the nation” and the world lost an icon when Nelson Mandela passed away Dec. 5, 2013. There is a hush in the air and I find myself weeping even... Read More
December 18, 2013 | Web First | Andrew and Karen Suderman
The world seemed very different when I awoke last Friday morning and heard the news: “Mandela is dead.” I first heard about it in an e-mail from a friend in Canada who, so he told... Read More
December 17, 2013 | Web First | John W. de Gruchy
Lorraine Roth
Lorraine Roth, a well-known Mennonite genealogist, passed away early on Wed. Dec. 11, 2013, at the age of 83. She grew up near Shakespeare, Ont., and spent her last years in... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Web First | Barb Draper
“J esus is not a pansy or a pacifist.” That’s what Mark Driscoll, pastor of the Mars Hill multi-venue mega-church conglomerate, said in its The Resurgence magazine recently. The... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Young Voices co-editor Aaron Epp is reading through in Bible in 2014. This is his plan. Read more about this project at A Year of Reading Biblically and join him in the challenge... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Canadian Mennonite
Why read the Bible? I posed that question on Facebook last month. More than 20 friends, including Christians, agnostics and atheists, responded. Some responses were snarky, most... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Logan Mehl-Laituri, a veteran of the war in Iraq, has written a new book, For God and Country (In That Order): Faith and Service for Ordinary Radicals, the first book written by... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Artbeat |
Former opera singers Terry and Monique Mierau with their youngest son, Hein, at their house-barn home in Neubergthal, Man., where they practise sustainable farming.
W hen Terry and Monique Mierau moved to rural Manitoba in 2011 with their three young children, they had, for the most part, stopped singing. The former opera singers,... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
After being an integral part of the town of Leamington, Ont., for more than a century, the HJ Heinz Corporation will shut its processing plant next June, putting 740 employees out of work and leaving more than 40 local tomato growers wondering what they will be planting come spring.
After being an integral part of the town of Leamington for more than a century, the HJ Heinz Corporation will shut its processing plant next June, putting 740 employees out of... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Barry Bergen
At a pilgrimage of peace at Imjingak, close to the border between South and North Korea, pilgrims attach prayers for peace on the iron fence.
Perspectives of peacebuilders, shedding light on how peace can be achieved in communities, societies and nations, were featured at a plenary session of the 10th assembly of the... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the World |
Karen Martens Zimmerly, MC Canada’s denominational minister, helped to develop Transitioning into Ministry (TiM), the national church’s new two-year online coaching program. It is designed to connect beginning pastors via the Internet for conversation, networking and, perhaps, coffee.
TiM has been launched in Western Canada—and this isn’t another story about a coffee franchise. Transitioning into Ministry (TiM) is Mennonite Church Canada’s new two-year online... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Deborah Froese
Presenter David Neufeld chats with Leonard Doell, a member of the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan, at the ‘Peace Saturday’ event at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Nov. 9. (Photo by Donna Schulz)
“Peace Saturday,” a time of storytelling at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Nov. 9, 2013, featured four presenters with diverse points of view on the theme. Don... Read More
December 10, 2013 | Web First | Donna Schulz