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Three former staff members of Mennonite Pioneer Missions and Native Ministry, the predecessor organizations of Mennonite Church Canada Indigenous Relations, passed away in April... Read More
June 18, 2013 | God at work in Us | Mennonite Church Canada

James Jakob Fehr of the German Mennonite Peace Committee, left, presents Judy da Silva, a member of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario, right, with the 2013 Michael Sattler Peace Prize for her environmental advocacy work against multinational logging companies in her community.

Judy da Silva, a member of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was this year’s recipient of the Michael Sattler Peace Prize from the German Mennonite Peace... Read More
June 18, 2013 | God at work in the World |

Syrian refugees are pictured in an informal settlement in Lebanon known colloquially as ‘a gathering.’

“Every night I go to bed thinking about what I will feed my family in the morning,” says a Syrian woman who fled with her family to a refugee settlement in Sidon, south of Beirut... Read More
June 18, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Emily Cain

‘Act justly,’ from Micah 6:8, was one of the three theme days at this year’s Walk, Witness, Worship Youth Retreat, held at Silver Lake Mennonite Camp on the May long weekend.

Our youth group from Petitcodiac Mennonite Church in New Brunswick had the opportunity to travel to Silver Lake Mennonite Camp, Hepworth, Ont., on the May long weekend for the... Read More
June 18, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Mika Driedger
Will native son and national hero Nelson Mandela survive his latest bout with illness? That is the single question dominating headlines, speeches, Twitter and conversation... Read More
June 18, 2013 | Web First | by Zaheer Cassim and Catherine Featherston, USA Today
Quebec's decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is having national repercussions. Last week, the Canadian Soccer Association suspended the Quebec Soccer... Read More
June 17, 2013 | Web First | Ron Csillag

Cris Derksen and choir

East Vancouver is one of the city's most culturally diverse areas. Thus, it was entirely fitting that Tim Corlis brought his Vancouver Peace Choir there to give a very special... Read More
June 14, 2013 | Web First | Lorne Brandt
Nearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide is emerging — this time over the teachings of 16th-century Reformer John... Read More
June 7, 2013 | Web First | Greg Horton
A discussion among us thirty-something Mennonites has been heating up online. It’s a discussion that cuts to the heart of nearly everything the church worries about us. The... Read More
June 5, 2013 | Young Voices | Peter Epp
Zoe Matties describes the four months she spent taking groups on tours between Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Georgia and Antarctica with One Ocean Expeditions as “holy moments... Read More
June 5, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
“Imagine spitting into a Dixie cup. After doing so, how would you feel if you were asked to drink the contents of the cup?” This is the opening image used by Richard Beck in... Read More
June 5, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by David Driedger

Amanda Falla

Amanda Falla believes that miracles appear to be uncommon because people don’t talk about them. But she cannot keep quiet about hers.Read More
June 5, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Kelsey Hochstetler

Todd Hanson’s picture taken in Chengdu, China, was named first-place News Photo at this year’s Canadian Church Press Awards held last month in Toronto.

Canadian Mennonite received four awards at this year’s Canadian Church Press (CCP) ceremony held in Toronto last month at the conclusion of the association’s annual convention.Read More
June 5, 2013 | God at work in the Church |

Douglas Mennonite young adults Emily Penner, foreground, and Kristi DeFehr help prepare a bed frame for assembly.

You don’t need to travel the globe to find a place to serve. That’s what the young adults at Douglas Mennonite Church in Winnipeg came to realize when they decided on a local... Read More
June 5, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, centre, who will leave office this month as Iran’s president after serving two terms, is pictured at a February 2007 meeting with members of a Mennonite Central Committee-led delegation.

After Iranians replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a two-term president, in this month’s elections, much of the world will remember him as an enigmatic hardliner from a far-off place... Read More
June 5, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
The online English-language al-Qaida magazine Inspire , which once printed instructions for building a pressure-cooker bomb, has published a special edition that attempts to take... Read More
June 4, 2013 | Web First | Doug Stanglin
The Syrian civil war is increasingly drawing in nations across the Middle East, a regionwide conflict that threatens to pit world powers against each other and Muslim against... Read More
May 31, 2013 | Web First | by Oren Dorrell and Ahmed Kwider of USA Today
I was sitting in a theology class during my first year at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, when the question first dawned on me: Where does my professor go to... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Young Voices | Melanie Kampen
Some readers may only know me as Canadian Mennonite’s Young Voices co-editor. Not many know a lot about me. I have a meaningful relationship with Netflix, I’m addicted to Twitter... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen

Walid Dabbous, left, a Syrian refugee now living in Sidon, Lebanon, tells his story to Don Peters, executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada, centre, and Ali Jammoul, a worker with the Development for People and Nature Association.

The executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada says the situation in Syria is likely to worsen and more must be done for the people affected by the conflict.Read More
May 22, 2013 | Back Page | By Julie Bell
Leland Harder, a scholar of both Anabaptist history and Anabaptists of the late 1900s, died at the age of 86 in North Newton, Kan. Harder was a pastor, seminary professor and... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Focus On | By Mary E. Klassen

Henry Regier exhibited a 160-year-old Kroeger clock face along with copies of Arthur Kroeger’s book, Kroeger Clocks.

Where could you go in your town to find a show of artifacts from three or four continents? Our 50 +/- group at Waterloo North Mennonite Church, Waterloo, did just that after we... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Focus On | By Miriam Maust
The title of Coming Home is an appropriate metaphor for this fascinating retelling of the last 60 years of Robert Kreider’s 93-year pilgrimage. We read about at least three “homes... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Focus On | Reviewed by Ronald J.R. Mathies

As Frances Ringenberg, left, a member of the pastoral team of Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Ind., greets Emma Sommers Richards at the celebration of the book about Richards’ ordination, Ringenberg said, ‘You were the first woman pastor I ever saw.’ Richards was pastor of Lombard (Ill.) Mennonite Church, where Ringenberg was a member b

By telling the story of the ordination of Emma Sommers Richards, a new book from the Institute of Mennonite Studies aims to show that “all church members will share in the... Read More
May 22, 2013 | Artbeat | Story and Photo by Mary E. Klassen

Through the safe spaces provided for connection and discussion by the Anabaptist Network in South Africa (ANiSA) Dialogues, Mzwandile Nkutha, left, and Cobus van Wyngaard are building an unlikely friendship across a history of racial divide.

An unlikely but emerging friendship between Mzwandile Nkutha and Cobus van Wyngaard through the Anabaptist Network in South Africa (ANiSA) demonstrates in a small way what it... Read More
May 22, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Andrew Suderman

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