Last Friday, Cathy Merrick, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, collapsed while speaking to reporters outside the Law Courts building in Winnipeg. She was taken to... Read More
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Singer Bruce Cockburn and the late Cathy Merrick, Chief of Pimicikamak at the time of the photo, at the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg in 2014. Photo by Will Braun.
September 11, 2024 | Web First | Will Braun
Siaka Traoré, a church leader in Burkina Faso. MWC photo by Christian Argha Aditya.
The following update and prayer request was sent by Siaka Traoré to Tany Warkentin of Mennonite Church Canada on August 30. Traoré is the Mennonite World Conference regional... Read More
September 5, 2024 | News | Siaka Traore
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds. Photo: Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur/Released, U.S. Air National Guard
For me, Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition is a touchpoint, reminding me of my childhood, and a sign that summer is coming to an end. When I was a child, my parents, siblings... Read More
September 4, 2024 | Web Opinion | Susan Fish
Avon Church youth in a Montreal urban garden and community centre. Photo: Stephen Kennedy
“That was a test. True servants are always listening.” Jacques was our new friend. He was always barefoot and wouldn’t say how he had ended up living in his van, but he spoke six... Read More
August 30, 2024 | News | Stephen Kennedy
Kirsten Hamm-Epp (centre) at an RJC High School retreat at Camp Kadish. Photo: RJC High School
The end of summer 2024 also marks the end of over a decade of commitment to youth ministry for Kirsten Hamm-Epp, regional church minister for Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. The... Read More
August 30, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
Questions about MCC ethos I appreciate Canadian Mennonite’s reporting on the open letter from terminated Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) workers (“Involuntary,” July 2024). Well... Read More
August 30, 2024 | Readers Write |
Camp Valaqua. Photo: Jon Olfert.
When Camp Valaqua director Jon Olfert received a text on July 23 from a friend working with Alberta Wildfire saying that there was a three-acre fire 25 kilometres northwest of the... Read More
August 20, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
Photo: A. S. Compton
On an average day, approximately 320 acres of Ontario farmland are lost to development and, apparently, now it’s our turn. This spring, the farmers across the road from the 100-... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | A.S. Compton
Young adults gathered at B.C.'s Camp Squeah in June to discuss an active future in the church. Photo: Amy Rinner Waddell
Two dozen young adults came together at Camp Squeah in Hope, B.C., for a weekend of listening, conversation, reflection and music to envision their future and that of the... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Israeli Jew Jeff Halper speaking at an MCEC lunch event. Photo: A. S. Compton
Israeli-Jewish author and organizer Jeff Halper spoke at a June 25 lunch gathering organized by the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) Palestine-Israel Network (PIN). Halper... Read More
August 9, 2024 | News | A.S. Compton
Joanne and Werner De Jong, MC Canada International Witness Workers. Photo supplied.
Note: The following is an excerpt from a prayer letter/newsletter distributed by Joanne De Jong , a Mennonite Church Canada Witness worker in Ethiopia, on August 8, 2024. I’ve... Read More
August 8, 2024 | Web First Opinion | Joanne De Jong
I like watching the Olympics, but I see only overblown virtuism and commercialized pretense in the notion that the games bring together the global village in a glow of equality... Read More
August 6, 2024 | Web Opinion | Will Braun
Photo: Madelene Arias
When I was five years old, two forces shook my world to its core. Before this, I had a loving family, a good school and a beautiful country. But that year, 1960, thousands of... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Faith Story | Aklilu Zere
Those gathered at Six Nations Polytechnic on July 6 partook of strawberry juice for communion. Photo: Victoria Veenstra
On July 6, more than 160 people from a variety of denominations and organizations gathered in Ohsweken, Ontario, for a Strawberry Thanksgiving and Communion hosted by Six Nations... Read More
August 2, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
Resonate youth and leaders attend a filmmaking workshop at the Toronto Public Library. Photo: Josiah Cheltenham
"I’m always amazed at how quickly people dismiss the arts,” says Steve Norton, a pastor and film critic at Connect City Ministries, which is part of Mennonite Church Eastern... Read More
August 2, 2024 | News | Madalene Arias
Preparing for post-collapse limits In a recent article, Miles Wiederkehr notices that it is only after you start doing experiments in sustainability that you learn about certain... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Readers Write |
From resigned MCC’ers For 17 of the past 32-plus years, we worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in four countries. MCC was instrumental in forming the values we try to... Read More
August 2, 2024 | Readers Write |
We invited readers who have left a church or whose church left a conference to send a short letter to those who remain. We asked people to be constructive. Still, some may be hard... Read More
August 1, 2024 | News |
Have you left your church? Has your church left a conference? What would you say, in 100 words, to those who remain? We’ll print a selection (without names) in the “Exit... Read More
July 26, 2024 | Web-only |
In 1974, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) approved a resolution that encouraged each Mennonite household in North America to “examine its lifestyle” and adopt a goal to “reduce... Read More
July 25, 2024 | News | CM Staff
Photo: Gor Davtyan/Unsplash
Following community pressure, in early July, the University of Waterloo (UW) in Waterloo, Ontario, dropped all legal charges against a group of students and concerned community... Read More
July 19, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
Volunteers prime a wall as part of renovations to the Tokyo Anabaptist Centre. Photo: Gerald Neufeld
The Tokyo Anabaptist Centre has been a busy—and sometimes dusty—place this year, reports Gerald Neufeld, Canadian church worker in Japan. Neufeld and his wife, Rie, who serve as... Read More
July 11, 2024 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Leng Thang (left to right), Tim Wiebe-Neufeld, Bill Christieson and Elizabeth Wall at the Griffith Woods Natural Environment Park, as part of an MC Alberta creation event. Photo: Margaret Kruger-Harder
Don’t get “stuck in rage or paralyzed by fear,” said Joanne Moyer. “[Be] defiantly hopeful, despite the odds.” Moyer, associate professor at The King’s University in Edmonton, was... Read More
July 5, 2024 | News | Margaret Kruger-Harder
Photo: Ruth Bergen Braun
When Rita Dahl was a child, the bottom third of the family’s kitchen door was her canvas. The top sections were for her older sisters to draw on. “We were products of the... Read More
July 5, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
