When I think of Mary, the chosen mother of Christ, I think of one iconic image. I think of the Catholic version of the eternal virgin on a pedestal. This doesn’t seem right, and I... Read More
News & Stories
Praying 25 times over the course of five days will change the way you look at God, yourself and others. Just ask Maddy Loewen. This past June, the student at Winnipeg’s Westgate... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Last Christmas Eve, Todd Hanson encountered road blocks on his way to church in Chengdu.
On his way to church last Christmas Eve, Todd Hanson found the police had erected roadblocks to facilitate crowd control. Hanson lives in Chengdu, China, where he and his wife... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Back Page |
What happens when an ethno-religious group feels their way of life is threatened? For over a century, before the October 1917 revolution in Russia, Mennonites in Ukraine had... Read More
December 11, 2012 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Henry Neufeld
Mbonye Buhunda, 38, her husband and their six children, including Mapenli, 11 and Ishara, 13, pictured, have been displaced repeatedly.
Many of the people displaced when rebel group M23 recently took control of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo had already been displaced a number of times earlier this year... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Linda Espenshade
Over the last number of years the St. Clair O’Connor Community (SCOC) Board has reviewed and renewed its mission statement and constitution. Through these evaluations many... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Walter Friesen
Path # 8: We are part of a larger story of “God’s love affair with the world.” By Willard Metzger, Being a Faithful Church Task Force member “Scripture calls us to remember that... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in the Church |
After a Winnipeg shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence lost out on $450,000 from the city , local recording artist and record label manager Michael Petkau Falk... Read More
November 23, 2012 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
Peter Worsley coordinates MCC Alberta’s community chaplaincy program.
Mennonite Central Committee's chaplaincy programs in Alberta and Ontario are facing a fund gap following the Canadian government's decision to change how it supports community... Read More
November 23, 2012 | Web First | Gladys Terichow
In a surprise move that shocked both sides of a years-long debate, the Church of England on Tuesday (Nov. 20) rejected an expected move to allow women bishops, preserving the... Read More
November 23, 2012 | Web First | Tevor Grundy
In an attempt to help their church become more environmentally friendly, Emmanuel Mennonite Church has done some environmental audits and proposals. The ideas proposed have became... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
I remember standing at the entrance to the cathedral in the German city of Muenster, gazing upwards at the metal cages suspended from the bell tower. I listened as my Mennonite... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Young Voices | Scott Bergen
When I was asked to write an article for Canadian Mennonite, I did not know where to start. I have so many stories to tell, but these stories are complicated, given the history my... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Young Voices | Kholoud Al Ajarma
Volunteers, (from left) Sasha Homenko, Anna Marie Giesbrecht, Laeun Kin and Birte Wiebe get to know each other as they work in the kitchen at Sam’s Place.
Packages of beans, tomatoes, carrots, apples and pesto fill the freezers at Sam’s Place, a used book store, café and performing arts venue in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of Elmwood.Read More
November 21, 2012 | Focus On | By Gladys Terichow
(l-r) Meaghan McCracken, Rebecca Campbell, Carol Ann Weaver, Ben Bolt-Martin and Willem Moolenbeek perform Winter Prayers and Blessings from Weaver’s Three Seasons for Lydia Herrle, on Oct. 31 at Conrad Grebel University College.
Elementary school student Lydia Herrle was thrown 25 metres after being hit by a truck as she stepped off her school bus in front of her family’s Country Farm Market on Erb’s Road... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Artbeat | Story and photo by Dave Rogalsky
Job (Mark McKechnie) refuses to be convinced by Sonny (Dan Bieman), the fundamentalist Christian, while the “High and Mighty” house band play in the background in Ross Muir’s Job’s Blues.
Ross Muir, managing editor of Canadian Mennonite, penned the lyrics to his blues’ opera, Job’s Blues, during one of the happiest times of his life, in 1988. The idea had been in... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Artbeat | Dave Rogalsky
This personal narrative of one of the darkest hours for Russian Mennonites, suffering unspeakably under the repression of a ruthless regime, is one of the most compelling I have... Read More
November 21, 2012 | Artbeat | Review by Dick Benner,
Mukanzo
Although Odette Mukole has surely told her story hundreds of times, she speaks softly. She is patient, humble and gracious.Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Dan Dyck
With the oak sapling in the background, Art Friesen addresses the group gathered to recognize the gift of the tree grown from the famous Chortitza oak to M.E.I.
The Chortitza oak, a large tree that has stood in Ukraine for over 700 years, continues living on in a new generation on the campus of Mennonite Educational Institute (M.E.I.) in... Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in the Church | Story and photo by Amy Dueckman
Dinah John (left) and Angel Mathew are part of an intergenerational team of women learning and sharing information about HIV and AIDS in Arusha, Tanzania.
Tears flow freely at Binti Mama (daughter/mother) gatherings as mothers and their teenage daughters talk openly about issues such as HIV and AIDS. Led by an intergenerational team... Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Gladys Terichow
Cheryl Pauls (right), president of Canadian Mennonite University and Terry Schellenberg, vice-president external, were among those who attended the Mennonite Church Canada leadership assembly in Edmonton where winter came early. They also met with pastors, parents and students in Edmonton and Calgary during their trip.
A blast of winter welcomed Mennonite Church Canada leaders to Edmonton’s First Mennonite Church for the annual fall leadership assembly Nov. 7-10. Most travellers managed to be on... Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
Proclaiming Jubilee is the mission and vision of both the congregation and Mennonite-owned business, David Miller told a workshop of business leaders and pastors when Mennonite... Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in the Church | Editor/publisher
Path # 7 Holy Spirit and interpretive community By Robert J. Suderman, Being a Faithful Church Task Force member “It is the Holy Spirit who guides the interpretive community in... Read More
November 21, 2012 | God at work in the Church |
What offends you? When should Christians be offended by what they see in the world around them, and how should they respond? Those questions were recently addressed in a... Read More
November 7, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Canadian Mennonite University took 12 students on a study tour to the United Kingdom this summer led by Professor Irma Fast Dueck. The students explored the theme of Christianity... Read More
November 7, 2012 | Young Voices | Ben Borne and Gabrielle Lemire