News & Stories
Tell us your good stories about Sunday school in 2024. For our upcoming issue, we want to hear from folks who are passionate about kids ministry and faith formation among youth... Read More
August 22, 2024 | News |
When Camp Valaqua director Jon Olfert received a text on July 23 from a friend working with Alberta Wildfire saying that there was a three-acre fire 25 kilometres northwest of the... Read More
August 20, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
On an average day, approximately 320 acres of Ontario farmland are lost to development and, apparently, now it’s our turn. This spring, the farmers across the road from the 100-... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | A.S. Compton
Two dozen young adults came together at Camp Squeah in Hope, B.C., for a weekend of listening, conversation, reflection and music to envision their future and that of the... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Israeli-Jewish author and organizer Jeff Halper spoke at a June 25 lunch gathering organized by the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) Palestine-Israel Network (PIN). Halper... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | A.S. Compton
Note: The following is an excerpt from a prayer letter/newsletter distributed by Joanne De Jong , a Mennonite Church Canada Witness worker in Ethiopia, on August 8, 2024. I’ve... Read More
August 8, 2024 | Web First Opinion | Joanne De Jong
I like watching the Olympics, but I see only overblown virtuism and commercialized pretense in the notion that the games bring together the global village in a glow of equality... Read More
August 6, 2024 | Web Opinion | Will Braun
When I was five years old, two forces shook my world to its core. Before this, I had a loving family, a good school and a beautiful country. But that year, 1960, thousands of... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Faith Story | Aklilu Zere
On July 6, more than 160 people from a variety of denominations and organizations gathered in Ohsweken, Ontario, for a Strawberry Thanksgiving and Communion hosted by Six Nations... Read More
August 2, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
"I’m always amazed at how quickly people dismiss the arts,” says Steve Norton, a pastor and film critic at Connect City Ministries, which is part of Mennonite Church Eastern... Read More
August 2, 2024 | News | Madalene Arias
Preparing for post-collapse limits In a recent article, Miles Wiederkehr notices that it is only after you start doing experiments in sustainability that you learn about certain... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Readers Write |
From resigned MCC’ers For 17 of the past 32-plus years, we worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in four countries. MCC was instrumental in forming the values we try to... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Readers Write |
We invited readers who have left a church or whose church left a conference to send a short letter to those who remain. We asked people to be constructive. Still, some may be hard... Read More
August 1, 2024 | News |
Have you left your church? Has your church left a conference? What would you say, in 100 words, to those who remain? We’ll print a selection (without names) in the “Exit... Read More
July 26, 2024 | Web-only |
In 1974, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) approved a resolution that encouraged each Mennonite household in North America to “examine its lifestyle” and adopt a goal to “reduce... Read More
July 25, 2024 | News | CM Staff
Following community pressure, in early July, the University of Waterloo (UW) in Waterloo, Ontario, dropped all legal charges against a group of students and concerned community... Read More
July 19, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
The Tokyo Anabaptist Centre has been a busy—and sometimes dusty—place this year, reports Gerald Neufeld, Canadian church worker in Japan. Neufeld and his wife, Rie, who serve as... Read More
July 11, 2024 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Don’t get “stuck in rage or paralyzed by fear,” said Joanne Moyer. “[Be] defiantly hopeful, despite the odds.” Moyer, associate professor at The King’s University in Edmonton, was... Read More
July 5, 2024 | News | Margaret Kruger-Harder
When Rita Dahl was a child, the bottom third of the family’s kitchen door was her canvas. The top sections were for her older sisters to draw on. “We were products of the... Read More
July 5, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
Our recent article, “Involuntary: Terminated MCC workers call for accountability and change” (posted online on June 20 and appearing in our July print issue), is a particularly... Read More
June 28, 2024 | News | CM Staff
What lies ahead? As I write this reflection, I have just completed my first week as executive minister of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. Stepping into this role, I ask myself, “... Read More
June 28, 2024 | News | Len Rempel
I grew up attending a relatively small Mennonite church—Foothills Mennonite in Calgary—with my family. My family was fairly involved in my church, and I grew up with a typical... Read More
June 28, 2024 | Faith Story | Ainsley Dunn
Rielly McLaren says the grief caused by toxic drug deaths feels staggering and palpable in his community. McLaren, who pastors Windsor Mennonite Fellowship, also serves as... Read More
June 28, 2024 | News | Madalene Arias
Since her death in 1943, Simone Weil’s philosophy has impacted dozens of writers, thinkers and theologians. T.S. Eliot named her a saint. Simone de Beauvoir envied her spirit. Now... Read More
June 21, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky