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Over the last few years, I have encountered a strange conversation amongst my co-workers. It comes up occasionally, each time with a different group of people and a multitude of... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Young Voices | Karen Allen
It happened often enough in grade school. My classmates would talk about where their families lived before they came to Canada. They would say things like, “I’m half Norwegian and... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Young Voices | Elise Epp
A multi-year, multi-million dollar funding proposal submitted by Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) Canada has been turned down by the federal government’s Canadian International... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Web First | Gladys Terichow
Every February, high school students from across Canada brave the cold, snow, and winter wind to make the trip to Hepburn, Saskatchewan for Bethany College’s Youth Advance (YA)!... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Wes Enns
Beware of seduction by accumulation. That was one of the money issues explored by Walter Brueggemann , a world-renowned Old Testament scholar, in talks to as many as 700 people... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Laura Amstutz
The chapel at Conrad Grebel University College was packed to hear renowned Mennonite author Rudy Wiebe read through his life of writing on Jan. 11, 50 years after his 1962 novel,... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
In the culmination of more than a decade of dreaming and a year of intense work, Conrad Grebel University College announces the launch of a new master of peace and conflict... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On |
Columbia Bible College is proof that “where there is a vision, people will support,” said president emeritus Wally Unger at an Oct. 22 banquet to celebrate the school’s 75th... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Barrie McMaster
I recently received two books by authors in their 90s: Nearing Home by Billy Graham, and Time for Outrage by Stéphane Hessel , a retired French diplomat and concentration camp... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Artbeat | By Will Braun
Because Leon Kehl has been fostering friendships between Mennonites and Muslims, he was interviewed by Third Way Media when they were filming the recently released documentary,... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Barb Draper
More than 500 Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) convention-goers were entranced as Joyce Bontrager Lehman recounted her journey from an idyllic childhood in the... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Linda Whitmore
When Barrette and Sandy Wiebe Plett returned from Egypt in 2008 after a three-year assignment under Mennonite Central Committee, they tried to move back into the church life they... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Energetic music, lively dance, and passion for the church they belonged to was apparent to those who came, both church delegates and visitors, to the conference held just outside... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | Andrew Suderman, Witness Worker
The homes at the edge of this Palestinian village are located a few hundred meters from houses in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar . But the relationship is anything but... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | By Judith Sudilovsky
Rafael Erasmo Arevalo , a Mennonite pastor in Honduras, was attacked and killed Sunday, Jan. 22, after leading an evening worship service. Arevalo , from Santa Rosa de Copán ,... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | Ron Rempel, news editor
Was aid for people suffering from drought in East Africa too slow? Yes, says a new report from two international aid agencies. According to the report, prepared by Oxfam and Save... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | Emily Cain
Methodist Archbishop Michael Kehinde Stephen of Ibadan , Nigeria has appealed to Christian and Muslim leaders worldwide to act together in the face of extremist violence that... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | Staff reports
As Egyptians gathered this week in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the "Egyptian Revolution," nearby Jasr El Dobara church continued to be a bridge-builder... Read More
January 26, 2012 | Web First | By ENInews Staff
Churches in India have decried the verdict of an Islamic court in Kashmir that ordered the expulsion of Christians, including a Protestant pastor and a Dutch Catholic missionary,... Read More
January 23, 2012 | Web First | By Anto Akkara
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the east German state of Saxony ruled on Jan. 21 that gay pastors will for the first time be allowed to cohabit with their partners. "I hope... Read More
January 23, 2012 | Web First | By Ruby Russell
Conservative U.S . Presbyterians launched a new denomination on Jan. 19, saying that the Presbyterian Church (USA) is too consumed by internal conflicts and bureaucracy to nurture... Read More
January 20, 2012 | Web First | By Daniel Burke
When Kelsey Enns started at the North End Family Centre, Winnipeg, he stood out from everyone else using the drop-in centre. So as a young white man serving at a facility that... Read More
January 18, 2012 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
I was recently asked by a friend in his 20s if I could offer some financial advice before he got married. Without knowing the specifics of his situation, I offered some financial... Read More
January 18, 2012 | Young Voices | Tobin Reimer
Like many people his age, Joel Wiens would like to buy a smartphone. He could probably afford to buy one now, but that would mean taking from the money he and his wife Jacquelyn... Read More
January 18, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp