We just dipped our toe into the world of youth sports by signing our seven-year-old son, Sam, up for a T-ball team. Last summer he discovered a love for baseball and loves playing... Read More
News & Stories
Theology, Spirituality Deuteronomy: Believers Church Bible Commentary. Gerald E. Gerbrandt. Herald Press, 2015, 600 pages. This is the 29th volume in the Believers Church Bible... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Focus On Books & Resources |
From plain coats to lace-covered wedding dresses, Amanda Bartel, a history major from Iowa City, Iowa, is cataloging Bluffton University’s historic clothing collection to learn... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Web First |
When Katrina Sklepowich was assigned to write a weekly blog as part of her school work, focussing on literature was an obvious choice. “I love books and I’m always reading, so I... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Young Voices |
Ask Amanda Zehr what her favourite Bible story is, and she points to John 9, where Jesus heals a blind man. “It really questions who the blind one is,” says Zehr, associate pastor... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Young Voices |
First nations, Lutheran and Mennonite movie-goers crowded into Saskatoon’s Roxy Theatre on March 13, 2016, popcorn in hand, to watch the premiere of Reserve 107: Reconciliation on... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First | Donna Schulz
Mennonite churches in Europe are responding to the violence and displacement in the Middle East that is affecting their society. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeiden (AMG,... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First |
Conrad Grebel University College hosted Sir James MacMillan as the 2016 Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar. The Scottish composer and conductor, best known for his sacred... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First | Nicole Simone
Because I grew up in the Mennonite tradition, conscientious objection is not a foreign concept to me. I was raised to value peace over violence and to treat every human life as... Read More
March 30, 2016 | Web First | Emily Mininger
Steve Heinrichs is passionate about healing broken relationships between indigenous and settler peoples. As Mennonite Church Canada’s director of indigenous relations, he is... Read More
March 28, 2016 | Web First | Deborah Froese
Canadian Mennonite thanks everyone who took the time to fill out the reader survey distributed late in 2015. The responses were positive overall and showed that the magazine is... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Conflict within, uncertainties without. Perhaps it was because of these that planners of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions chose “Bound together, freed to... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Despite a warm winter, there was enough of the white stuff for youth from Mennonite churches across Alberta to call their annual winter retreats “snow camps.” On the weekends of... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Bryan Moyer Suderman, an itinerant Bible teacher from Stouffville, Ont., who is also widely known as an Anabaptist singer-songwriter, led Pastors Week sessions at this year’s event at AMBS entitled ‘The Bible says what?’ (Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary photo)
In her opening address to this year’s Pastors Week event at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, held during the last week of January 2016, Jewel Gingerich Longenecker, the... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Anika Reynar presents the vision of Emerging Voices Initiative to the Mennonite Church Manitoba annual general meeting at Bethel Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, on March 5, 2016. (Photo by Beth Epp)
Never let it be said that young people don’t care about the future of the church. Late last year, Katrina Woelk, a sociology student at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and a... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church | J. Neufeld
For the most part, Syrians forced from their homes dream not of going to Europe or Canada, but of going back home. “They are in love with their country,” say Mennonite Central... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
The federal government sometimes “matches” donations made by Canadians for specific causes. Does this mean that if you give $100 to MCC for Syria, Ottawa gives another $100 to MCC... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
Scott Eyre, residence director of Cedarwood Hall at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), sports photographer for the Royals, and soon-to-be-graduate, says the journey to the... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in Us | Randi B. Hagi
There are courageous women around every corner, especially at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre in Saskatoon, where the 26 paintings of Ray Dirks’s Along the Road to Freedom exhibit... Read More
March 23, 2016 | Artbeat | Saskatchewan Correspondent
Stefan Epp-Koop is the author of We're Going to Run This City: Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike. (Photo by Aaron Epp)
“Why couldn’t I have been more interested in Caribbean history?” That’s what historian Stefan Epp-Koop asked himself during a December 2007 visit to Winnipeg, as he trudged... Read More
March 23, 2016 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
From Feb. 18-20, I was part of a group of 30 students and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) staff from across Canada who met in Ottawa for the annual MCC Student Seminar to learn... Read More
March 23, 2016 | Young Voices | Amy Matychuk
The greeting you get when visiting Yhya Al Kurdi’s apartment is full of excitement. Before you actually reach the door, Al Kurdi has opened it and stands at the end of the long... Read More
March 22, 2016 | Web First | Emily Loewen
After six years of training and preparation, the Vietnam Mennonite Church (VMC), a Mennonite World Conference member, ordained 26 pastors in Ho Chi Minh City on 5 December 2015... Read More
March 22, 2016 | Web First | Emily Jones and Gerry Keener
Resident Erna Kreiter, standing, visits with guests at an open house held at Prairie Meadow Place on March 5. From left are Cookie Esperance, Irene Kortko, Della Klaassen and Shirley Otterbein. (Photo by Donna Schulz)
Dorine Russell sits in a comfortable armchair in her new room at Prairie Meadow Place, a cup of coffee by her side. “This is a wonderful place,” she says. “I love it here.”... Read More
March 22, 2016 | Web First | Donna Schulz
