President Obama will publicly take the oath of office with Bibles once owned by his political heroes, Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr . One Bible was well read... Read More
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President Barack Obama looks at the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that hangs in the Oval Office prior to meeting with President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia, June 29, 2009. RNS photo by Pete Souza/The White House
January 18, 2013 | Web First | Daniel Burke
Chantel Klassen and her husband Jared have declared themselves passionate about advocating for the orphan. These twenty-somethings from Warman, Sask., see loving the orphan as an... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Young Voices | Brandi J. Thorpe
The Idle No More movement is not just an “Indian thing.” Thousands of people in Canada and around the world—including Mennonites—have rallied to stand in solidarity with this... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
In an age where young-adult church attendance is often declining, many churches want to build a vibrant group for this demographic. Springfield Heights Mennonite Church seems to... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Young Voices | Thomas Guenther
Playwright and actor Ted Swartz has scripted his most personal work yet, this time in autobiographical form.Read More
January 16, 2013 | Artbeat |
Rehan
Dessert was artistically displayed against a candlelit backdrop at Wildwood Mennonite Church as a few dozen people gathered late last year to celebrate Anna Rehan’s long and... Read More
January 16, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Karin Fehderau
Conrad Grebel University College professor Derek Suderman holds up his group’s cartoon of the plot of the biblical passage being studied at the ‘Contextual Bible study’ seminar, while Chris Brnjas, a master of theological studies student at the college, explains it.
“I hope this is the beginning of something.”Read More
January 16, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and photo by Dave Rogalsky
Howard Zehr, widely known as the ‘grandfather of restorative justice,’ will co-lead the Zehr Institute of Restorative Justice at the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Harrisonburg, Va. Zehr will step aside from his teaching responsibilities at EMU following the spring 2013 semester.
Howard Zehr, widely known as the “grandfather of restorative justice,” will step aside from his teaching role at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) after the spring 2013 semester... Read More
January 16, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Lora Steiner and Bonnie Price Lofton
Recently, I gave a presentation on the tension between answering God’s call and the demands of the world. I explained how hard it is, because most North American consumers seem to... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Focus On | Reviewed by Galen Lehman
I love the piano in our living room. The small Wurlitzer fits nicely into the proportions of the room and often provides a good platform for seasonal decorations and whatever... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Focus On | Dori Zerbe Cornelsen
Hildebrand (left), and Schlegel (right)
Two Mennonite businessmen have been named to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, out of a total of 91 recipients recognized. Ron Schlegel of Waterloo, Ont.,... Read More
January 16, 2013 | Focus On | By Dick Benner
Are you feeling unsatisfied with the state of democracy in Canada? You may not be the only one. A recent poll released by the charitable organization Samara found that only 55 per... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Casey van Wensem
Why does business matter to God? As a business major at Canadian Mennonite University this is a question that has kept me up at night as I think about what I want to do with my... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Ethan Heidebrecht
After almost 28 years in her position as area church youth minister of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, Anna Rehan is retiring. In her time in this role, she came to understand the... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Cindi Powell and her daughters Erica and Emily are the owners of this house in St. Catharines, Ont., built through a partnership between Habitat Niagara and the local Mennonite community.
Habitat for Humanity Niagara has been building houses in the Niagara Peninsula since 1993. This year the house built on Tasker St. in St. Catharines was a partnership Habitat for... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Back Page | Story and photo by Maria Klassen
At the end of the grade 10 Christian Studies class at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, students are asked to do a project in which they reflect upon a foreign religious practice.Read More
January 2, 2013 | Focus On | by Sarah Currie
New public service announcements produced by MennoMedia are being distributed to 13,000 radio stations across the U.S. A grant from Schowalter Foundation helped with funding.Read More
January 2, 2013 | Artbeat | MennoMedia
Mutabazi
Shadrack Mutabazi is a Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student who is trying to concentrate on his studies in spite of the trauma that plagues his family and his country... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Lyndsay Wright
At a Brotherhood meeting in Altona, Man. last November, the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church decided to withdraw as one of the member churches of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). The... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and photo by Will Braun
Wesley Driedger (left) and Elaine Dueck and other volunteers wash and dry cans of meat at the MCC meat canning operation in Winkler.
Elaine Dueck, 15, eagerly anticipates the annual 64-hour around-the-clock meat canning operations when Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) mobile meat canner comes to her home... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the World | Gladys Terichow
Laureen Harder-Gissing, archivist at Conrad Grebel University College, examines some of the items from Lorraine Roth’s collection that recently found a new home at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
A lifetime of persistent and meticulous research into the lives and family histories of Amish Mennonites has been donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario at Conrad Grebel... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church |
One stop on a guided bus tour was the Furby Street building where members worshipped from 1945-1955. This 105-year-old building is now used by the St. Demetrius Romanian Orthodox Church. It is also the birthplace of Canadian Mennonite Bible College (now CMU).
In 1937, a tired and aging Rev. Benjamin Ewert sat in the old Eaton’s waiting room in downtown Winnipeg. As young people drifted through, he studied their faces to see if he could... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and photos by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) helps women get loans to develop small businesses, such as this woman in Ghana who sells salt at the market.
Although the Saskatoon chapter of MEDA is considered to be a small group, their dreams to help others are big. Each year, this group of business people raises money for one... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Karin Fehderau
Path #12: Grace and justice for the vulnerable By Laura Loewen, Being a Faith Church Task Force member Jesus is portrayed as “consistently interpreting Scripture in reference to,... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church |
In preparation for next September’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Christians in B.C. gathered to learn about the First Nations worldview. Brander McDonald, Mennonite Church... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen