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When Rebekah Enns, 16, started a gay-straight alliance at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, Winnipeg, in order to support those who, like her, are coming out of the closet, the Grade... Read More
January 4, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
It has been six months since Canadian Mennonite first launched the Young Voices section, website and blogs. We have covered peace rallies, RV trips, new businesses and art. As... Read More
January 4, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen and Emily Loewen

One of more than 200 photographs from the new book, The Pembroke Years: 1919-1968, shows Pembroke School ball players Frank Janzen, Peter Neudorf, Jacob Janzen, George Sawatzky, George Ens and Jacob Sawatzky piling onto Abe J. Friesen’s truck.

On Oct. 1, 50 people gathered in the fellowship centre at Saskatoon’s Bethany Manor to launch the new book, The Pembroke Years: 1919-1968. Bill Janzen , chair of the Mennonite... Read More
January 4, 2012 | Focus On | By Rosemary Slater

While reflecting on the MCC peace button message, students at Menno Simons Christian School, Calgary, work in groups to create artistic trees that represent the individual and collective work of creating peace at the school.

On Nov. 10, 2011, the community of Menno Simons Christian School participated in our annual peace festival, focusing on the meaning of the MCC button, “To remember is to work for... Read More
January 4, 2012 | Focus On | By Byron Thiessen

Rosthern Junior College students put their imaginations to work on an international service learning trip in support of a community in Guatemala.

Every September for the last 106 years, students have arrived at the Rosthern (Sask.) Junior CollegeRead More
January 4, 2012 | Focus On | By Geraldine Balzer-Peters and Gail Schellenberg

Eva Hofenk, left, chats with Tasha Janzen at an Emmanuel Mennonite Church senior-youth interaction night. (Photo by Amy Dueckman)

When the grey-haired set met the blue-jean generation of Emmanuel Mennonite Church at an evening gathering last year, both generations learned a lot about the other. And everyone... Read More
January 4, 2012 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Amy Dueckman

Mennonite Church Canada executive director Willard Metzger, right, marches through the streets of Durban, South Africa, in support of climate justice with other people of faith at the UN climate change conference last month.

Especially in the colder areas of Canada, people will sometimes facetiously say they are thankful for climate change when they experience unseasonably warm temperatures. But... Read More
January 4, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Rachel Bergen

Sandy Keomany, left, Venus Moungsouvanh and Joanne Sou perform a traditional Lao dance at the amalgamation service of Lao Canadian Evangelical Mennonite Church and Toronto United Lao Mennonite Church.

It was with singing, dancing and, of course, a potluck that two Lao Mennonite churches in Toronto celebrated their amalgamation late last year. After a seven-year separation, Lao... Read More
January 4, 2012 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Emily Loewen

Linda Matties

One of the most famous announcements the world has ever heard is stated in this way: “For unto us is born this day ... a Savior.” It is no accident that the fulcrum of human... Read More
December 24, 2011 | Web First | Linda Matties, member of the board

Hanukkah dreidels

Both Christmas lights and Hanukkah dreidels (spinning tops) are appearing as decorations as the northern Israeli port city of Haifa throws a multi-faith party on December weekends... Read More
December 22, 2011 | Web First | By Judith Sudilovsky

Hitchens, the iconoclast.

Both opponents and advocates of religious faith are mourning the death of author, polemicist, and atheist Christopher Hitchens , who died Dec. 15 after a long battle with... Read More
December 16, 2011 | Web First | By Chris Herlinger
Christmas can be a lonely time for non-Christians in North America. Jews have Hanukkah -- and traditionally go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day. Muslims, well, can always... Read More
December 16, 2011 | Web First | By Ron Csillag
Most Canadian Mennonite colleges, universities and high schools have a majority of Mennonite or Mennonite Brethren professors or teachers, whether or not they have policies... Read More
December 14, 2011 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
When Daniel Eggert was growing up in Edmonton’s First Mennonite Church, there were 12 other people his age in Sunday school. From that group, only he and one other person still... Read More
December 14, 2011 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Fear will control our lives if we let it. And fear is the name of the game in Israel-Palestine. In November I joined a team of people from North America and Europe on a Christian... Read More
December 14, 2011 | Young Voices | Kelsey Hutton
In 1985, around 2,500 people walked the Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage route in northern Spain. Ten years later, the number jumped tenfold. The year that I did it, 2005... Read More
December 14, 2011 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Arthur Boers

Baergen

In 1979, Don Baergen was an orderly in a seniors home when a fellow church member tapped him on the shoulder. Would he consider a half-time salary/half-time volunteer position at... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld

Willard Metzger, MC Canada’s executive director, spoke to federal MPs and senators about climate justice earlier this year before heading to the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Whether the scientists are right or wrong about climate change is no longer the issue, Willard Metzger , Mennonite Church Canada’s executive director (formerly general secretary... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in the World | By Dan Dyck
John Borthwick is calling on church leaders to see themselves as midwives and chaplains. One of three presenters at the Oct. 22 think tank workshop, “Leading the church in a post-... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in the Church | By Dave Rogalsky

Willard Metzger (2nd row, right) marches through the streets of Durban in support of climate justice with other people of faith. – photo by Kaitlin Bardswich

For Mennonite Church Canada Executive Director Willard Metzger, the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa was an eye-opening experience that began... Read More
December 13, 2011 | Web First | Deborah Froese

The 'Mennonite tree' is among the 150 maples, ashes, lindens and hawthorns in the garden as a symbol of worldwide unity. (Photo credit: Frieder Boller)

On a cold, blustery day in the German town of Wittenberg, Bishop Yuri Novgorodov of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan patted down the dark soil at the base of a... Read More
December 13, 2011 | Web First | By Ruby Russell

The story of Muslim and Christian women working together on a quilt at Floradale Mennonite Church (Ont.) is one of several inspiring but obscure stories revealed in Waging Peace Muslim and Christian Alternatives. The quilt eventually found its way to Palestinian refugees.

A new one-hour documentary produced by MennoMedia’s film department, Third Way media, explores threads of peacemaking in the Christian and Muslim faiths through the centuries and... Read More
December 12, 2011 | Web First | Steve Shenk
More than 20,000 YouTube views, a profile on CNN, posted on more than 60 blogs from around the world, and continuous sharing on facebook and twitter have taken the “ Singing... Read More
December 12, 2011 | Web First | news release

Due to the shortage of houses in the Attawapiskat First Nation community, shacks like this are being used as homes. --MCC photo by Lyndsay Mollins Koene

While recent media attention has focused on the shortage of houses and lack of water and sewage systems in the Attawapiskat First Nation community in northern Ontario, many other... Read More
December 9, 2011 | Web First | Gladys Terichow

David Victor R. Youssef from the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services in Egypt

Churches in Egypt are praying and helping migrants, who flee home due to political turmoil, violence and uncertain future. There is a great need to develop stable democratic... Read More
December 8, 2011 | Web First | Naveen Qayyum, staff writer

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