For the next 10 months, Evan Bueckert will be at the helm of youth ministry in Saskatchewan. Bueckert, 30, is half-time associate pastor at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in... Read More
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Evan Bueckert is MC Sask's new interim youth minister. Source: MC Sask.
October 23, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
Peace demonstrators in Toronto on October 5. Photo by Madalene Arias.
On the afternoon of Saturday, October 5, approximately 60 people gathered in the shade of Holy Trinity Church in Toronto to support the Palestinian Youth Movement one year into... Read More
October 17, 2024 | News | Madalene Arias
Pádraig Ó Tuama. Photo: Blue Flower Arts
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a theologian, poet and the author of several books including the forthcoming Kitchen Hymns (2025) and 44 Poems on Being with Each Other (2025). He is a member... Read More
October 17, 2024 | News | Susan Fish
Singing Back the Buffalo documents buffalo rematriation efforts by Indigenous nations and tribes in Canada and the U.S.
Credit: buffalosong.com.
Last week I attended a screening of Singing Back the Buffalo , written and directed by Tasha Hubbard, with my family at the Regina Public Library Film Theatre. The last time we’d... Read More
September 29, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
Photo: Matan Levanon/Unsplash.
Greetings from Myanmar. We are facing a significant challenge for our youth. As the number of soldiers in the junta [military] has dwindled, [youth] are being forcibly recruited... Read More
September 25, 2024 | News | Amos Chin
Richard DuBois, an artist from Pasqua First Nation, completed a mural for the healing garden in 2023. Credit: Katie Doke Sawatzky.
On Sept. 7, Westminster United Church in Regina dedicated a medicine wheel in its K â kesimokamik, “healing garden,” to local Elder Lorna Standingready. Standingready, who is from... Read More
September 23, 2024 | News | Katie Doke Sawatzky
While writing the article, "MCC accused of inadequate response to sexual assault allegation in Mozambique," Canadian Mennonite sent questions to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)... Read More
September 19, 2024 | News |
Gardens irrigated by a sand dam in Phiri-Meque, Mozambique. Photo by Katie Moyer.
“I wanted to help people gain access to water,” Katie Moyer says of her motivation for taking an assignment with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Mozambique in 2016. It was... Read More
September 19, 2024 | News | Will Braun
Playbill from Stratford Festival's 2024 performance of "A Salesman in China." Photo by Susan Fish.
My husband and I attended a performance of A Salesman in China at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario this week. The play, set in 1983, is based on the true story of the... Read More
September 19, 2024 | Web Opinion | Susan Fish
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.
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
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 |