As the 117 Roman Catholic cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel next month for the election of a new pope, one hopes that they fully recognize the unfolding, dramatic pilgrimage... Read More
News & Stories
Unchurched Americans have high expectations that they will have sex on Valentine's Day. Lutherans, Presbyterians and other mainline Protestants? Not so much. A new study from the... Read More
February 14, 2013 | Web First | Lauren Markoe
The Rev. Amy Butler, senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.
The church that I pastor sits on a busy corner in downtown Washington, D.C . It’s the kind of neighborhood where most people, whether they live or work in the area, rarely if ever... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Web First | Rev. Amy Butler
“I want to talk to God, but I’m afraid ‘cause we ain’t spoke in so long.” (Kanye West, “Jesus Walks”) “Please talk to me / Won’t you please talk to me? / We can unlock this misery... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
“Even in the smallest places can a garden grow.” This line from Noah Gunderson’s song, “Garden,” captures the essence of a CD recording tour with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Megan Enns
“The states, parties to the present covenant, recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Ellen Paulley
In the wake of Typhoon Bopha in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, Daniel and Joji Pantoja’s staff loaned one month of their salaries to purchase food aid for 650 families, prompting smiles of gratitude from young recipients.
A typhoon, five million hungry people and no available funds for relief operations. When Peacebuilders Community Inc. (PBCI) faced that scenario late last year, staff rose to the... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Back Page | By Deborah Froese
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as the young Joe, in Looper, a film that challenges the myth of redemptive violence.
Looper is an independent, critically acclaimed, futuristic, neo-noir, time-travel thriller. By itself, this is a unique set of characteristics guaranteed to attract viewers like... Read More
February 13, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Vic Thiessen
Paul M. Zehr is retiring after serving as chair of the editorial council of the Believers Church Bible Commentary (BCBC) series for more than 25 years. “While it’s been a labour... Read More
February 13, 2013 | God at work in Us |
As a quiet first-year college student, I took a long, nervous walk down the dorm hallway, across a dimly lit ideological divide and into the room of the second-year student who... Read More
February 13, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
Syrian refugee children take shelter against the cold shortly after arriving in Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan, early in the morning of Nov. 26, 2012. Mennonite Central Committee has delivered 900 comforters, 350 relief kits and 3,520 school kits to the camp so far. For story on the worsening crisis in Syria.
The crisis in Syria is rapidly spinning out of control.Read More
February 13, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
Building on years of separate bilateral dialogues between Mennonites and their Catholic and Lutheran counterparts, the three denominations began trilateral talks on the issue of... Read More
February 13, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Mennonite World Conference
Bernie Wiebe and pastor Lynell Bergen break bread during Hope Mennonite Church’s communion service officially welcoming the LGBTQ community in its midst. The special cloth draped over the communion table had been created for the event.
The welcome offered at the communion table on Jan. 20 at Hope Mennonite Church signalled the congregation’s arrival at a significant milestone on what has been a long, winding and... Read More
February 13, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Beyonce
Super Bowl halftime shows often burn more vivid images into the American conscience than the most-watched football game of the year, and can claim millions more viewers. They can... Read More
February 1, 2013 | Web First | Lauren Markoe
Youth growing up in many Mennonite churches could be forgiven for thinking that homosexual sex is the only kind of intercourse people have, because that’s the only kind many... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
At one point Christianity was the centre of life in North America; now it has been pushed to the margins. But that’s an important place to be, according to Cam Roxburgh. Mennonite... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
‘Metaphors in cloth and clay,’ a new exhibit at the Mennonite Heritage Gallery, Winnipeg, combines the individual and collaborative work of Winnipeg artists Ingrid Lincoln and... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Back Page |
Martha Smith Good signs her book Breaking Ground: One Woman’s Journey into Pastoral Ministry for Jean Shantz at a book-signing event at Wilmot Mennonite Church, Ont., in mid-December.
Guelph Mennonite Church, which Martha Smith Good was pastoring, had requested ordination for her, but the then Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec wanted to license her... Read More
January 30, 2013 | God at work in Us | Reviewed by Dave Rogalsky
Neufeld
Joseph S. Neufeld was born into a large Mennonite family and community in rural Alberta. Having many sisters and brothers, and growing up in the Dirty Thirties, he quickly... Read More
January 30, 2013 | God at work in Us | By David Neufeld
Sitting in quiet, yoga retreat participants at Camp Squah experience the presence of God.
Determination to exercise more, or to improve one’s spiritual life, are on many people’s lists as they begin a new year. Thirty people who met at Camp Squeah from Jan. 11 to 13... Read More
January 30, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Amy Dueckman
Victor Khambil of the Chin Christian Church, a Mennonite Church Eastern Canada emerging congregation, leads chants with his megaphone in support of the Kachin people of Burma.
Victor Khambil, secretary for the Chin Christian Church, Kitchener, was front and centre at a peaceful protest at city hall on Jan. 19.Read More
January 30, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Peace. The final frontier. This is the hope of the Mennonite Church. Its mission: To witness in a strange new world. To seek renewed life, renewed community, and to boldly go... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Focus On | By Sean East
Khuankaew
Ouyporn Khuankaew travelled a long way to teach at the 2012 Canadian School for Peacebuilding at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) last summer, and she says the trip was well... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Focus On | By Lindsay Wright
Bethany Johnson is a first-year student at the Medical School for International Health in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Bethany Johnson is exactly where she wanted to be after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in 2012 with a degree in biology: well on her way to a career in medical... Read More
January 30, 2013 | Focus On | By Andrew Jenner
