News & Stories
Mennonite communities have developed a rich tradition of raising hundreds of thousands of dollars each year at community events like the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale. This... Read More
June 20, 2012 | Young Voices | Brandi J. Thorpe
Travelling to another country has a way of creating a new lens on life with a vivid new focus, but not in the way that I had expected. As I discovered more and more about South... Read More
June 20, 2012 | Young Voices | Lauren Harms
“That woman has really nice shoes,” said a man with whom I am acquainted. I was at a restaurant in Vancouver with four men. Three of them were talking about women’s shoes, but, in... Read More
June 20, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
It was January 1989 when J. R. Burkholder taught liberation theology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind. Interterm at AMBS is one course, usually studied over... Read More
June 20, 2012 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Dave Rogalsky
All the fear, stigma and social prejudice that surrounds mental illness recently surfaced again in the media when a review board granted Vince Li temporary passes to take... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Mennonite Church Canada’s Native Ministry has changed its name to Indigenous Relations effective immediately.Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the World | Story and Photo by Deborah Froese
Official government apologies and the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process do not include all prior students of government-funded, church-run schools for... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Deborah Froese
“The stories are horrific. You can’t listen to them without a sick feeling of disbelief rising in your stomach. It’s easy to tell yourself that, because you were not personally... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Deborah Froese
How can Canada’s churches move past their residential school history into a positive relationship with Indigenous Peoples? That was one question asked during The Meeting Place... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the World | Story and Photos by Emily Loewen
It took three impromptu songs to count the ballots and confirm the results, but Anabaptist leaders from around the world elected J. Nelson Kraybill as president-elect of Mennonite... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Tim Huber
In three presentations at the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) General Council meetings last month, theologians and historians revisited the Anabaptist vision in a global context... Read More
June 20, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Tim Huber
New Testament theologian Walter Wink, noted for relating the biblical phrase “principalities and powers” to the dominating sociopolitical structures of the modern era, died May 10... Read More
June 19, 2012 | Web First | John Dart
Some 60 Mennonites, Quakers and Brethren in Christ members, including seniors and children, gathered for a peace church testimony Saturday, June 16, during Stouffville’s... Read More
June 19, 2012 | Web First | Dick Benner, editor/publisher
Rachel Miller Jacobs and Andy Brubacher Kaethler have been appointed to faculty positions at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, each to focus on different aspects of... Read More
June 15, 2012 | Web First | Mary Klassen
Jeff Huebner, of Calgary, has been appointed by the Board of Governors to the faculty of the Redekop School of Business at Canadian Mennonite University. Huebner comes to CMU from... Read More
June 15, 2012 | Web First | Nadine Kampen
As the battle over the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline plays out, key questions about the moral make-up of Canada will be answered: questions about the balance between economic... Read More
June 13, 2012 | God at work in the World | Will Braun, Senior Writer
Laura Epp is passionate about the Mennonite church. The 22-year-old is the secretary of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s Ministries Commission.She has attended the annual MC... Read More
June 6, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
It has been said that life is a highway. Sometimes that highway leads you out of the country, across oceans and completely out of your comfort zone. This is the case for Darnell... Read More
June 6, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
The seminary is important. For years the standard has been, “If ministry is in your future, then so should seminary.” But I’m not sure if I will be going to one because I think... Read More
June 6, 2012 | Young Voices | Chris Lenshyn
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
June 6, 2012 | Focus On | By John Borger
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
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
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