Like most North Americans, I grew up in a household where no meal was complete without a serving of meat, although I didn’t really know where the meat that I ate came from. But... Read More
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‘The Last Supper,’ by Leonardo da Vinci (1451-1519); tempera and mixed media on plaster; 4.6m x 8.8m. Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. What did Jesus really serve his disciples at the first communion service?
June 6, 2012 | Focus On | By John Borger
Jane Snyder enjoys a cup of coffee at the Seven Shores Urban Market and Café in Uptown Waterloo.
Jane Snyder chose the local Seven Shores Urban Market and Café in Uptown Waterloo to meet. Within walking distance of her home, and featuring local produce and fair trade coffee,... Read More
June 6, 2012 | Focus On | Story and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Erb Street Mennonite Church, Waterloo, Ont., had new solar panels installed last month.
There’s nothing new under the sun, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, but in Waterloo Region, Ont., there are lots of new things under the sun: solar projects, that is!Read More
June 6, 2012 | Focus On | By Jane Snyder
When an army of nasty aliens in giant reptilian ships threatens to take over the Earth and enslave all of its inhabitants, one superhero is not enough to stand in the way. For a... Read More
June 6, 2012 | Artbeat | Reviewed By Vic Thiessen
Dale Schiele sees value and worth in that segment of society that most people would rather shun. At age 60, he’ll be retiring from a 30-year career as director of Person to Person... Read More
June 6, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Karin Fehderau
Nick Blais of Fort Erie, Ont., right, and other MDS volunteers work in New Orleans, La., in January.
After spending seven years and $8 million responding along the Gulf Coast to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has formally closed its last project in... Read More
June 6, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Sheldon C. Good
Norman Meade divides his time between co-pastoral duties at Manigotagan Community Fellowship and his work as coordinator of Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba’s Aboriginal Neighbours Program.
Manigotagan Community Fellowship is thriving nine years after budget restraints led to the cutting of Mennonite Church Canada’s Native Ministry program.Read More
June 6, 2012 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Christuskirche Niedernberg members—Jenny Spenst, 24, left, Tatjana Hagelgans, 23, Alexander Spenst, 49 (Jenny’s father-in-law and one of three church elders), and Johann Siemens, 23—enjoy a sunny day after the Sunday morning worship service on May 20 in Niedernberg, Germany.
Jenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.Read More
June 6, 2012 | God at work in the Church |
Christuskirche Niedernberg members—Jenny Spenst, 24, left, Tatjana Hagelgans, 23, Alexander Spenst, 49 (Jenny’s father-in-law and one of three church elders), and Johann Siemens, 23—enjoy a sunny day after the Sunday morning worship service on May 20 in Niedernberg, Germany.
Jenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.Read More
June 6, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Tim Huber
Church leaders pray for J. Nelson Kraybill, new president-elect of Mennonite World Conference. From left are Danisa Ndlovu of Zimbabwe, MWC president; Kraybill; Ervin Stutzman, Mennonite Church USA executive director; and Janet Plenert of Canada, MWC vice president. — photo by Merle Good/MWC
It took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill president-elect of Mennonite... Read More
June 1, 2012 | Web First | Tim Huber
Tom Yoder-Neufeld: "Community happens when Christians join in communion with the divine Trinity."
In three presentations at the Mennonite World Conference General Council meetings May 20-27, theologians and historians revisited the Anabaptist vision in a global context and... Read More
June 1, 2012 | Web First | Tim Huber
Jamie Pitts begins in July.
Jamie Pitts, Ph.D ., will become assistant professor of Anabaptist studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, beginning July 1. Pitts currently serves as social media... Read More
June 1, 2012 | Web First | Mary E. Klassen (story and photo)
This feature quilt titled "Fiesta" fetched $3,200. With a final bid of $6,700, the quilt titled "Underground Railroad" pushed the sale totals to $335,000.
It was titled “Underground Railroad” and it went for $6,700 as the top quilt of the event, pushing the total raised to $335,000 for the 46th Mennonite Relief Sale held on the... Read More
May 28, 2012 | Web First | Janice Harder, Marketing Director
It takes a special kind of person to be a nurse. It takes someone who will stay up all night rocking and singing to a screaming child. Someone like Carly Penner who will respect... Read More
May 28, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Jacinto Perez, a community leader in Nebaj, Guatemala, resisting the hydroelectric dams on their ancestral territories. See upcoming story in Canadian Mennonite's June 11 edition, titled "This Land is Us." --Photo by Tobias Roberts, MCC
Editor's Note: See the major feature "This Land is Us" in the June 11 edition of Canadian Mennonite . Ethnic and religious minorities have been the targets of killings, torture... Read More
May 25, 2012 | Web First | By John Zarocostas
It takes a special kind of person to be a nurse. It takes someone who will stay up all night rocking and singing to a screaming child. Someone like Carly Penner who will respect... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Sometimes when people change churches or denominations, it is because they are looking for a more contemporary form of worship. For Jonathan Dyck, it was the opposite—one of the... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
On March 24, I travelled with a group of 16 from the Calgary airport to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. We spent the next two weeks on a learning tour, studying and working on... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Young Voices | Theodore Wiebe
A task force was asked by the town council here Tuesday, May 15, 2012, to look into a proposal by the area’s peace churches to select a site and erect a plaque in honour of the... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Web First | Dick Benner
Fred Ritchie reads a peace book to great-grandson, Simon Clark. (Photo courtesy of Jake Buhler)
Charlie Clark, who grew up in the United Church tradition, listened carefully to the stories of his beloved Grandpa Ritchie on his fruit orchard in Naramata, B.C. The stories came... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Focus On | By Jake Buhler
A new book by Jerry Buckland a professor at Menno Simons College, a Canadian Mennonite University institution in downtown Winnipeg, reveals how Canada’s banking system excludes... Read More
May 23, 2012 | Artbeat | By J. P. Neufeld
For Bruno Epp, school was an exciting place to be. Before he was old enough to attend the one-room Plum Hollow school next to his family's farm near Lena, Manitoba, he would slip... Read More
May 23, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Will Braun
It was a life-long dream of Frank “Carl” Peter Zacharias to be on the radio, said his daughter, Lisa Zacharias, in the eulogy she gave at her father’s funeral on May 2, 2012. That... Read More
May 23, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Forty years ago, four women in the southern Manitoba community of Altona opened a thrift shop to raise funds for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It was the beginning of a... Read More
May 23, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Gladys Terichow
Dusting off the Bible? Does that mean we aren’t using our Bibles, or is it an overstatement meant to capture our attention? Perhaps it implies looking at scripture with new eyes,... Read More
May 23, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Deborah Froese