Companions, guides, watchdogs and friends; No matter how you slice it, pets play a huge role in the lives of Canadians. The latest survey by Statistics Canada shows this, too,... Read More
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Conversation within the walls of the Great Hall once fell on deaf ears, as what is now Canadian Mennonite University was originally built as a school for the hearing-impaired... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Young Voices | Michael Wiebe
Angelika Dawson, a member of the Good Friday Blues Band, nails her ‘blues’ to a cross as part of the Good Friday Blues service.
Blues filled the House of James Christian bookstore for two nights during Holy Week, raising the roof with music and raising funds for a local charity.Read More
April 10, 2013 | Back Page | By Amy Dueckman
Visual artists Miriam Rudolph and Bennie Peters explore their upbringing in Paraguay in the new art exhibit, ‘From Paraguay to Winnipeg: Explorations of Place, Home and Childhood,’ at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery.
Miriam Rudolph has spent most of the past decade living in Winnipeg, but Canadians often ask her what it’s like living in Paraguay, where she grew up.Read More
April 10, 2013 | Artbeat | By Aaron Epp
CMU Press of Winnipeg describes its latest release, Citizenship: Paul on Peace and Politics, by Gordon Zerbe, as a collection of essays that offers “a revisiting of Paul’s... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Artbeat | By Nadine Kampen
On March 18, shock waves rippled through the small community of New Hamburg, where the headquarters of Ten Thousand Villages Canada is located, and beyond, as store closures and... Read More
April 10, 2013 | Focus On | Dave Rogalsky
Jonah Langelotz and three of his classmates needed to participate in a nonviolent action for their History and Strategies of Nonviolence course at Canadian Mennonite University (... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the World | Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Jim Cornelius, left, Foodgrains Bank executive director, presents a glass grain elevator—an “image of what the Foodgrains Bank has stood for and meant across the country”—to CIDA president Margaret Biggs and Julian Fantino, federal international cooperation minister. At right is Don Peters, the Foodgrains Bank’s board chair.
Helping people in need overseas is not only a “tangible expression of Canadian values,” but also a “critical instrument for advancing Canada’s long-term prosperity and security.”Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
In a luncheon discussion with local Mennonite pastors and church leaders at Lethbridge Mennonite Church, where Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service board members were holding... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Dick Benner
Matt Groenheide, left, a well-known local percussionist specializing in classical percussion and world drumming, and Scottish singer/cellist George Fowler, provided the entertainment for Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service’s annual banquet held last month in Lethbridge, Alta.
Canadian Mennonite was urged at its annual banquet last month to “pass on the best of the Anabaptist faith” to its Mennonite readership and to speak without fear in the face of... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Dick Benner
From her seat at the front, Mennonite Church Alberta secretary Joani Neufeldt could see all of the gathered Mennonite Church Alberta delegates as the story of the newly forming... Read More
April 10, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
In the basement of Toronto’s Danforth Mennonite Church, two chairs and a laundry basket serve as a makeshift set. Two young actors repeat their lines over and over, practising how... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
On page 35 of the Jan. 21 issue, Thorpe wrote “Advocating for the orphan” about international adoption. Now she looks at local adoption, and the story of a young couple who... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Brandi J. Thorpe
It’s a Wednesday night and there is a good turnout at the St. Clair O’Connor Community, an intergenerational housing project in Toronto, where internationally renowned author... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Young Voices | Avery Peters
The late John Howard Yoder has long been recognized as an important Mennonite theologian, but his work has mostly been used by scholars and has not been readily accessible to the... Read More
March 27, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Barb Draper
Cassandra (left) and Jalon
Government and media often brand people who have committed offences as “bad guys” to be feared and put away. But that’s not how their kids see them. In What Will Happen to Me? a... Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the World |
Derksen
In 1984, Cliff and Wilma Derksen’s 13-year-old daughter Candace was abducted and murdered. The case was not solved until 2011. Below are excerpts of Wilma’s presentation to a... Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the World |
Hutton
When John Hutton sees a person convicted of murder or assault, as he regularly does, he does not see a “bad guy” to be feared or reviled. Instead, he sees the potential for change.Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Will Braun
Attendees at a March fundraising banquet view the display telling of Mennonite Disaster Service’s many projects during the past year.
From a wind-damaged Bible camp in northern B.C. to a flooded town in North Dakota, and even to storm-ravaged New York City, British Columbians gave of their time and talents to... Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Amy Dueckman
How to financially sustain ministry is a topic of discussion for at least six national church bodies in Canada, including Mennonite Church Canada.Read More
March 27, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Deborah Froese
The new archbishop, Justin Welby, smiled and occasionally laughed as he watched African Anglicans dance and sing.
Justin Welby , the 57-year old former oil executive who quit the world of high finance in 1992 to become a priest, was enthroned Thursday (March 21) as the 105th archbishop of... Read More
March 22, 2013 | Web First | Trevor Grundy
In 1974, when the Rev. Jorge Bergoglio was the top Jesuit in his native Argentina, a former nightclub dancer named Isabel Peron came to head the nation – an accidental and weak... Read More
March 20, 2013 | Web First | Lauren Markoe
Dreaming big can be dangerous when you’ve got an obsessive personality. Once you’ve got a crazy idea, you need to make it happen. That’s a lesson Paul Plett learned after he... Read More
March 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
Jesse Krause, 27, spent nearly a year in total fashioning instruments out of whatever he could find and writing music based on biblical stories, all to tell an old story in a new... Read More
March 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Young Voices is excited to welcome Isaac Friesen and Wanda Wall-Bergen as our newest bloggers. Isaac and Wanda are currently serving in Egypt with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC... Read More
March 13, 2013 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen