Early last month an open letter to the leadership of Mennonite Church Canada was posted on a website called FossilFreeMenno.org, asking individuals to sign it, identify their home... Read More
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The annual Christmas concert at the rural Manitoba school where Old Order Mennonites normally send their children had to be cancelled last month as the building has sat empty for... Read More
December 31, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Evelyn Rempel Petkau
If there is indeed a "War on Christmas," those on the anti-Christmas side of the war have lost — big time. The television pundits, conservative politicians and talk-radio... Read More
December 23, 2013 | Web First | Charles Austin
Traditionally Mennonite worship did not acknowledge the nuances of the church year. Today more congregations and individuals are seeing the seasons of the church calendar as a... Read More
December 19, 2013 | Web First | Compiled by Ginny Hostetler
Karen and Andrew Suderman and their children
South Africa lost the “Father of the nation” and the world lost an icon when Nelson Mandela passed away Dec. 5, 2013. There is a hush in the air and I find myself weeping even... Read More
December 18, 2013 | Web First | Andrew and Karen Suderman
The world seemed very different when I awoke last Friday morning and heard the news: “Mandela is dead.” I first heard about it in an e-mail from a friend in Canada who, so he told... Read More
December 17, 2013 | Web First | John W. de Gruchy
Lorraine Roth
Lorraine Roth, a well-known Mennonite genealogist, passed away early on Wed. Dec. 11, 2013, at the age of 83. She grew up near Shakespeare, Ont., and spent her last years in... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Web First | Barb Draper
“J esus is not a pansy or a pacifist.” That’s what Mark Driscoll, pastor of the Mars Hill multi-venue mega-church conglomerate, said in its The Resurgence magazine recently. The... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Young Voices co-editor Aaron Epp is reading through in Bible in 2014. This is his plan. Read more about this project at A Year of Reading Biblically and join him in the challenge... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Canadian Mennonite
Why read the Bible? I posed that question on Facebook last month. More than 20 friends, including Christians, agnostics and atheists, responded. Some responses were snarky, most... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Logan Mehl-Laituri, a veteran of the war in Iraq, has written a new book, For God and Country (In That Order): Faith and Service for Ordinary Radicals, the first book written by... Read More
December 11, 2013 | Artbeat |
Former opera singers Terry and Monique Mierau with their youngest son, Hein, at their house-barn home in Neubergthal, Man., where they practise sustainable farming.
W hen Terry and Monique Mierau moved to rural Manitoba in 2011 with their three young children, they had, for the most part, stopped singing. The former opera singers,... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
After being an integral part of the town of Leamington, Ont., for more than a century, the HJ Heinz Corporation will shut its processing plant next June, putting 740 employees out of work and leaving more than 40 local tomato growers wondering what they will be planting come spring.
After being an integral part of the town of Leamington for more than a century, the HJ Heinz Corporation will shut its processing plant next June, putting 740 employees out of... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Barry Bergen
At a pilgrimage of peace at Imjingak, close to the border between South and North Korea, pilgrims attach prayers for peace on the iron fence.
Perspectives of peacebuilders, shedding light on how peace can be achieved in communities, societies and nations, were featured at a plenary session of the 10th assembly of the... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the World |
Karen Martens Zimmerly, MC Canada’s denominational minister, helped to develop Transitioning into Ministry (TiM), the national church’s new two-year online coaching program. It is designed to connect beginning pastors via the Internet for conversation, networking and, perhaps, coffee.
TiM has been launched in Western Canada—and this isn’t another story about a coffee franchise. Transitioning into Ministry (TiM) is Mennonite Church Canada’s new two-year online... Read More
December 11, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Deborah Froese
Presenter David Neufeld chats with Leonard Doell, a member of the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan, at the ‘Peace Saturday’ event at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Nov. 9. (Photo by Donna Schulz)
“Peace Saturday,” a time of storytelling at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Nov. 9, 2013, featured four presenters with diverse points of view on the theme. Don... Read More
December 10, 2013 | Web First | Donna Schulz
A Leamington man has been killed in an attempted car-jacking on a highway in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian media reports say Dean Tiessen was travelling with a friend, Paul Carver... Read More
December 10, 2013 | Web First |
Bergen
As the world remembers Nelson Mandela today, Walter Bergen, an organic farmer from Chilliwack, BC, recalls a moment in July, 1986, when the Conference of Mennonites in Canada... Read More
December 6, 2013 | Web First | Dick Benner, editor & publisher
American evangelicals help plant and harvest grapes for Israeli settlers in the West Bank settlement of Dolev on the morning of Oct. 27, 2013. Photo by Debbie Hill, courtesy of USA Today
Sitting in the shadow of a row of leafy grapevines, 26-year-old Zac Waller grabbed his guitar and started playing a hymn. The soulful sounds tripped down the hillside adjacent to... Read More
December 5, 2013 | Web First | Michele Chabin / USA Today
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley celebrates Sunday Mass with other American cardinals at the Pontifical North American College March 3, 2013. Photo by Gregory L. Tracy/The Pilot
Pope Francis is creating a special commission to deal with the clergy sexual abuse crisis on a global scale, a step that comes amid growing criticism that Francis had not given... Read More
December 5, 2013 | Web First | David Gibson
During Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September, a U.S. diplomat presented this griffin-shaped chalice to an Iranian counterpart. (Photo credit: Mehdi Moazen, Islamic Republic News Agency)
Many paths led to the international agreement to temporarily curb Iran's nuclear program: secret meetings in Oman, formal negotiations in Geneva, and a quiet encounter in New York... Read More
December 3, 2013 | Web First | By Christi Parsons
Paul Crouch, the religious broadcaster who co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network and was known for his prosperity gospel messages and lavish lifestyle, died Saturday (Nov. 30). He was 79. Photo courtesy Trinity Broadcasting Network
Paul Crouch, the religious broadcaster who co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network and was known for his prosperity gospel messages and lavish lifestyle, died Saturday (Nov. 30)... Read More
December 2, 2013 | Web First | Adelle Banks
Women in Ghana will benefit from the new water project.
Mennonite Economic Development Associates announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. MEDA... Read More
November 27, 2013 | Web First |
As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy on Friday (Nov. 22), many Christians will also pause to recall the death of C.S. Lewis,... Read More
November 22, 2013 | Web First | By Sarah Pulliam Bailey