News & Stories
Mennonite youth in Saskatchewan are raising their voices and offering a perspective on some of the controversial issues facing the denomination. The Saskatchewan Mennonite Youth... Read More
February 25, 2015 | Young Voices |
Making plans for university and picking out a graduation dress are typical activities for teenage girls in Grade 12, but Allegra Friesen Epp had something extra to contend with as... Read More
February 25, 2015 | Young Voices |
For years, congregations have searched for a secret that will keep young people in the pews. Debates are had around worship style, young adult groups and the role parents play. At... Read More
February 25, 2015 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
A very special quilt hung at the rear of the church on Jan. 25, 2015, as Dutch Mennonites from the province of Friesland gathered in Drachten to celebrate World Brotherhood Day... Read More
February 12, 2015 | Web First | Barb Draper (with information from Minze Postma)
Last semester I took a class at Canadian Mennonite University entitled Anabaptist-Mennonite Theology. The course aims to analyze the works of contemporary Anabaptist-Mennonite... Read More
February 11, 2015 | Young Voices | Mike Wiebe
If an outsider were to walk into a Riel Gentlemen’s Choir practice, it would seem to be a combination of an alternative choral experiment, a boy’s club, a Manitoba fan club and a... Read More
February 11, 2015 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Music plays an important role in most teenagers’ lives. Through music they connect with peers and with issues that matter to them. Perhaps that’s why the Saskatchewan Mennonite... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in the Church |
It was a “magical” and “spirit-filled” Jan. 24, 2015, evening for many who attended a Wildwood Mennonite Church event, held to provide a positive space for members of the lesbian/... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Rachel Bergen
Langley Mennonite Fellowship has become the first Mennonite Church B.C. congregation to acknowledge in writing that it sits on unceded first nations territory. At last year’s MC B... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in the World | Amy Rinner Waddell
Retired Canadian Forces Captain Wayne Johnston received a warm welcome at 50 Kent, the home of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario and other Mennonite agencies in Kitchener... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
A new Sunday School peace curriculum in the U.S. pushes Mennonites in a direction very different than the predictable emphasis on the evils of war and the theological superiority... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
Vernon Erb had a busy fall. Wet weather combined with a late planting season last spring meant the soybeans and corn were hard to get off the fields. “I guess I’ve gone full... Read More
February 11, 2015 | God at work in Us |
“Walls became an obsession when I went to Berlin in 2010,” artist Rhonda Harder Epp told the crowd at the opening of her Walls: Arbitrary Impediments art exhibition at King’s... Read More
February 11, 2015 | Artbeat | Story and Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
If an outsider were to walk into a Riel Gentlemen’s Choir practice, it would seem to be a combination of an alternative choral experiment, a boy’s club, a Manitoba fan club and a... Read More
February 11, 2015 | Young Voices |
I am not a huge fan of going to the gym. I know exercise is good for me, but so is eating vegetables, and I’m not really into that either. At the end of a work day, even though I... Read More
February 11, 2015 | Young Voices | Amanda Zehr
Muslims and Christians are fleeing Maiduguri, a large city in northeastern Nigeria, looking for safer places after Boko Haram insurgents attacked the area over the weekend, and... Read More
February 5, 2015 | Web First | Markus Gamache and Cliff Kindy
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is accepting applications for its 2015 Summer Youth program (SYP), which features three unique service opportunity locations in the U.S. and... Read More
February 5, 2015 | Web First | Mark Beach
A decades-long study of genetics and psychiatric illness–in which Dr. Abram Hostetter has played a prominent role–continues to yield new clues about the causes of bipolar disorder... Read More
February 5, 2015 | Web First | Andrew Jenner
Because of safety concerns, full names are not used for some Syrian refugees in this article, and some names have been changed. The garden courtyard in the center of Ahmad and... Read More
February 5, 2015 | Web First | Linda Espenshade
“It’s been a whole year already? Crazy!” That’s what a colleague wrote to me in an e-mail when I told her that Canadian Mennonite’s Year of Reading Biblically (YORB) had wrapped... Read More
January 28, 2015 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has never had a presence in student clubs on Canadian university campuses. Until recently, that is. On Jan. 15, an MCC-run student club was... Read More
January 28, 2015 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has never had a presence in student clubs on Canadian university campuses. Until recently, that is. On Jan. 15, an MCC-run student club was... Read More
January 28, 2015 | Young Voices |
Enthusiastic singing, energetic danc-ing and electrifying drumming set the tone as the Asante Children’s Choir worshipped African-style with Eigenheim Mennonite Church congregants... Read More
January 28, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Donna Schulz
“There is no military solution [to Islamic State [IS)], only possibly some short-term tactical gains that might give the illusion of success, but which pave the way for longer-... Read More
January 28, 2015 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Consultation participants work in groups to review current realities for the church and the surrounding cultures. Working with factors related to congregations and religious groups are Yoel Masyawong, pastor in Kitchener, Ont., left; Safwat Marzouk, professor at AMBS; Karen Martens Zimmerly, MC Canada denominational minister; Leonard Dow, a pastor in Philadelphia, Pa.; and Anna Geyer, a farming entrepreneur in Oxford, Iowa.
Designs for equipping multi-vocational leaders with entrepreneurial skills and a view toward mission took shape as 23 business, mission, pastoral and educational representatives... Read More
January 28, 2015 | Focus On | Story and Photo by Mary E. Klassen