Six indigenous youth from across Canada travelled to Geneva, Switzerland this month telling the United Nations that Canada needs to end inequalities experienced by aboriginal... Read More
News & Stories
Émilie Durville (Claudel) and Marcin Kaczorowski (Rodin) dance in Peter Quanz’s ballet Claudel/Rodin at Les Grands Ballets Canadien in the fall of 2011.
At the age of 17, dancer Peter Quanz of Wilmot Mennonite Church was already living in Winnipeg on his own. Before heading to Winnipeg, he commuted to an arts high school in nearby... Read More
February 15, 2012 | Artbeat | By Dave Rogalsky
Kayla Thiessen, right, with a fellow Serve Nazareth intern wear period clothing for their work at Nazareth Village. Thiessen’s service experience resulted from a Mennonite Church Canada advertisement in her church bulletin.
Kayla Thiessen bubbles with enthusiasm when she talks about her short-term service experience through Mennonite Church Canada in Nazareth. The University of Manitoba graphic... Read More
February 15, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Deborah Froese
Bokayo Kanchoro collects water in Berena, Ethiopia, from an underground system filled with Oxfam tankered water. There are 3.2 million Ethiopians affected by the current drought and food crisis.
In a January report, two major humanitarian agencies confessed that they, along with the rest of the world, responded too slowly to the food crisis in East Africa last year, and... Read More
February 15, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
Cheryl Pauls takes over as CMU president on Nov. 1.
When Cheryl Pauls takes over the reins from Gerald Gerbrandt , Nov. 1, as president of Canadian Mennonite University, she will guide the institution from a different academic... Read More
February 15, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Rachel Bergen
Concerns of Indigenous Peoples were one of the topics for the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Jamaica, 2011.
With the help of participants from several regions of the world a World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation recently looked at Christian self-understanding in the context of... Read More
February 14, 2012 | Web First | news release
ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan welcoming them back into the fold.
Founded by breakaway U.S . Episcopal priests who left their former denomination because they felt it was too liberal, the Anglican Mission in the Americas is now in the middle of... Read More
February 10, 2012 | Web First | By Bob Smietana
Fernando Enns of the Mennonite Church in Germany speaking at the IEPC in Kingston, Jamaica, 2011.
It must be admitted by people of faith that “religion is not just a solution to war and violence. Too often, it can be part of the problem,” Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse told a... Read More
February 10, 2012 | Web First | news release
Egyptian Christian humanitarian leaders say while politics and religion are garnering the most attention in their country right now, Egypt's serious humanitarian problems will... Read More
February 6, 2012 | Web First | By Chris Herlinger
The key role played by young people during the transformations in the Arab world throughout the past year was a recurrent theme for the recent World Council of Churches ( WCC )... Read More
February 6, 2012 | Web First | news release
Ten years after the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in the United States, Catholic bishops from all over the world will meet this week at a Vatican summit aimed at preventing... Read More
February 6, 2012 | Web First | By Alessandro Speciale
Archbishop Hieronymos II
Archbishop Hieronymos II of Athens and All Greece on Feb. 2 warned the Greek government of a possible social upheaval if more austerity measures are ushered in by international... Read More
February 3, 2012 | Web First | By John Zarocostas
Often, young adults are seen as apathetic about politics. But a group of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) students met with a Member of Parliament and a New Democratic Party (... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Over the last few years, I have encountered a strange conversation amongst my co-workers. It comes up occasionally, each time with a different group of people and a multitude of... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Young Voices | Karen Allen
It happened often enough in grade school. My classmates would talk about where their families lived before they came to Canada. They would say things like, “I’m half Norwegian and... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Young Voices | Elise Epp
A multi-year, multi-million dollar funding proposal submitted by Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) Canada has been turned down by the federal government’s Canadian International... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Web First | Gladys Terichow
Matthew Bergen creates large graffiti art for Bethany College’s retreat.
Every February, high school students from across Canada brave the cold, snow, and winter wind to make the trip to Hepburn, Saskatchewan for Bethany College’s Youth Advance (YA)!... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Wes Enns
Walter Brueggemann inspires School for Leadership Training participants to move beyond the drive to accumulate toward accepting God’s gracious abundance.
Beware of seduction by accumulation. That was one of the money issues explored by Walter Brueggemann , a world-renowned Old Testament scholar, in talks to as many as 700 people... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Laura Amstutz
Rudy Wiebe is pictured after his reading at Conrad Grebel University College with moderator Hildi Froese Tiessen, professor of English and peace and conflict studies. Wiebe kicked off Grebel’s Celebrating Mennonite Literature reading series on Jan. 11.
The chapel at Conrad Grebel University College was packed to hear renowned Mennonite author Rudy Wiebe read through his life of writing on Jan. 11, 50 years after his 1962 novel,... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
In the culmination of more than a decade of dreaming and a year of intense work, Conrad Grebel University College announces the launch of a new master of peace and conflict... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On |
Unger
Columbia Bible College is proof that “where there is a vision, people will support,” said president emeritus Wally Unger at an Oct. 22 banquet to celebrate the school’s 75th... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Focus On | By Barrie McMaster
Billy Graham chats with President Obama
I recently received two books by authors in their 90s: Nearing Home by Billy Graham, and Time for Outrage by Stéphane Hessel , a retired French diplomat and concentration camp... Read More
February 1, 2012 | Artbeat | By Will Braun
Because Leon Kehl has been fostering friendships between Mennonites and Muslims, he was interviewed by Third Way Media when they were filming the recently released documentary,... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Barb Draper
Keynote speaker Joyce Bontrager Lehman responds to questions during a Nov. 5 breakfast Q&A moderated by Wilmer Martin of TourMagination at the Mennonite Economic Development Associates convention in Lancaster, Pa. (MEDA photo by Steve Sugrim)
More than 500 Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) convention-goers were entranced as Joyce Bontrager Lehman recounted her journey from an idyllic childhood in the... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Linda Whitmore
Cutline: Sandy and Barrette Wiebe Plett with their children Meredith, 2 ½ years, and Orie, 4 years.
When Barrette and Sandy Wiebe Plett returned from Egypt in 2008 after a three-year assignment under Mennonite Central Committee, they tried to move back into the church life they... Read More
February 1, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau