Casa de la Amistad—House of Friendship—is a welcome change for about 140 Bolivian children aged 4 to 18. They are happy to participate in a program that offers them two meals a... Read More
News & Stories
Theology/Spirituality Citizenship: Paul on Peace and Politics . Gordon Mark Zerbe. Canadian Mennonite University Press, 2012, 276 pages.Read More
April 24, 2013 | Focus On | Compiled by Barb Draper
Development of a new Sunday school curriculum called Shine is underway by publishers MennoMedia and Brethren Press. Writers are beginning this month on the first quarter of Shine... Read More
April 24, 2013 | Focus On |
More information does not mean we will make the right choices, but less information insures an impoverished understanding. As the initial wave of media attention over Idle No More... Read More
April 24, 2013 | Focus On | Reviewed by David Driedger
Amish romance novels are big business, with the top authors selling millions of copies. From the 1990s to 2004, one or two Amish novels were published each year. By 2008, there... Read More
April 24, 2013 | Focus On | Reviewed by Barb Draper
Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association, left, presents Brenda Suderman, Faith Page reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press, with the Ihsan Award for her journalistic bridge-building efforts.
Brenda Suderman, a member of Home Street Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, was one of two Winnipeg Free Press journalists to be honoured by the Islamic Social Services Association with... Read More
April 24, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
A crowd of about 60 people of various ages, almost all from Mennonite congregations, gathers outside the chain-link fence of the Enbridge pumping station near Gretna, Man., for a service of lament on Holy Saturday.
A cross in the ditch is a common marker for tragic events, so on Holy Saturday, March 30, a wooden cross is planted in the snowy ditch just outside the chain-link fence of the... Read More
April 24, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photos by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
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While Mennonites in Canada enjoy an era of economic abundance, less and less of that wealth is trickling down to the area and national churches.Read More
April 24, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Will Braun
“So Kyle, are you ever going to be a lead pastor?” Good question. I am 29, married, have two kids and an undergrad degree, and have worked as a youth pastor for almost eight years... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Young Voices | Kyle Penner
Companions, guides, watchdogs and friends; No matter how you slice it, pets play a huge role in the lives of Canadians. The latest survey by Statistics Canada shows this, too,... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Young Voices | Laura Tait
Conversation within the walls of the Great Hall once fell on deaf ears, as what is now Canadian Mennonite University was originally built as a school for the hearing-impaired... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Young Voices | Michael Wiebe
Angelika Dawson, a member of the Good Friday Blues Band, nails her ‘blues’ to a cross as part of the Good Friday Blues service.
Blues filled the House of James Christian bookstore for two nights during Holy Week, raising the roof with music and raising funds for a local charity.Read More
April 10, 2013 | Back Page | By Amy Dueckman
Visual artists Miriam Rudolph and Bennie Peters explore their upbringing in Paraguay in the new art exhibit, ‘From Paraguay to Winnipeg: Explorations of Place, Home and Childhood,’ at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery.
Miriam Rudolph has spent most of the past decade living in Winnipeg, but Canadians often ask her what it’s like living in Paraguay, where she grew up.Read More
April 10, 2013 | Artbeat | By Aaron Epp
CMU Press of Winnipeg describes its latest release, Citizenship: Paul on Peace and Politics, by Gordon Zerbe, as a collection of essays that offers “a revisiting of Paul’s... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Artbeat | By Nadine Kampen
On March 18, shock waves rippled through the small community of New Hamburg, where the headquarters of Ten Thousand Villages Canada is located, and beyond, as store closures and... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Focus On | Dave Rogalsky
Jonah Langelotz and three of his classmates needed to participate in a nonviolent action for their History and Strategies of Nonviolence course at Canadian Mennonite University (... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the World | Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Jim Cornelius, left, Foodgrains Bank executive director, presents a glass grain elevator—an “image of what the Foodgrains Bank has stood for and meant across the country”—to CIDA president Margaret Biggs and Julian Fantino, federal international cooperation minister. At right is Don Peters, the Foodgrains Bank’s board chair.
Helping people in need overseas is not only a “tangible expression of Canadian values,” but also a “critical instrument for advancing Canada’s long-term prosperity and security.”Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
In a luncheon discussion with local Mennonite pastors and church leaders at Lethbridge Mennonite Church, where Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service board members were holding... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Dick Benner
Matt Groenheide, left, a well-known local percussionist specializing in classical percussion and world drumming, and Scottish singer/cellist George Fowler, provided the entertainment for Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service’s annual banquet held last month in Lethbridge, Alta.
Canadian Mennonite was urged at its annual banquet last month to “pass on the best of the Anabaptist faith” to its Mennonite readership and to speak without fear in the face of... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Dick Benner
From her seat at the front, Mennonite Church Alberta secretary Joani Neufeldt could see all of the gathered Mennonite Church Alberta delegates as the story of the newly forming... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
In the basement of Toronto’s Danforth Mennonite Church, two chairs and a laundry basket serve as a makeshift set. Two young actors repeat their lines over and over, practising how... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
On page 35 of the Jan. 21 issue, Thorpe wrote “Advocating for the orphan” about international adoption. Now she looks at local adoption, and the story of a young couple who... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Brandi J. Thorpe
It’s a Wednesday night and there is a good turnout at the St. Clair O’Connor Community, an intergenerational housing project in Toronto, where internationally renowned author... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Avery Peters
The late John Howard Yoder has long been recognized as an important Mennonite theologian, but his work has mostly been used by scholars and has not been readily accessible to the... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Barb Draper
Cassandra (left) and Jalon
Government and media often brand people who have committed offences as “bad guys” to be feared and put away. But that’s not how their kids see them. In What Will Happen to Me? a... Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the World |