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Manitoba social workers want parents of an orthodox Mennonite community to promise they will only spank kids on their behinds and not use objects, such as belts, as punishment... Read More
August 9, 2013 | Web First |

All photos by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky also contributed reporting to this article.

For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town’s women. There was no other explanation. No way of explaining how a woman could wake up with... Read More
August 6, 2013 | Web First | By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

Nation to nation bike tour begins July 31.

This August, Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth will participate in a unique bike tour through southeastern Ontario to build bridges of understanding and respect based on a... Read More
July 31, 2013 | Web First | Staff reports

Metaxas

Before evangelical leader Chuck Colson fell ill at a conference last year, crumbling at the podium and later dying at the hospital, it was Eric Metaxas who introduced him. At the... Read More
July 30, 2013 | Web First | By SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY
On any given night thousands of Canadians languish in ramshackle housing, line up at shelters or sleep in our streets and alleyways. This situation is not limited to our big... Read More
July 25, 2013 | Web First | By Jino Distasio, Expert Advisor
Every morning in Jessica Burridge’s house begins with dancing. Accompanied by her children, Dakota, six, Danika, four, and Dawson, three, the family begins each day with joy to... Read More
July 24, 2013 | Young Voices | Rebecca Kuhn
Some of the most horrifying injustices in Canada and the U.S. happened when more than 600 indigenous women went missing or were murdered in the last 20 years. The public hardly... Read More
July 24, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
I often find myself questioning the way the church handles single people. Surely there is a better way for the church to relate to those of us who aren’t married. When I looked... Read More
July 24, 2013 | Young Voices | Amanda Zehr

Elmon Lichti’s boots represent the 10,000 Canadians who chose alternative service rather than army service during World War II. Lichti, from Tavistock, Ont., was in alternative service as a road builder, farmer, and forester.

It’s an unusual place for an exhibition about peace. Instead of in a Mennonite institution, this exhibition is at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa where permanent exhibit space... Read More
July 24, 2013 | Artbeat | By Ellen Shenk

Jake Neufeld continues to volunteer much of his time with maintenance work at Camp Koinonia.

Jake Neufeld, lay minister for 46 years, was released from his ordination to ministry last October in Whitewater Mennonite Church in Boissevain. Neufeld leaves ordination behind... Read More
July 24, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Nine members of Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church in Abbotsford spent a week in New York City in May, but not as tourists. They were volunteering their time as Mennonite Disaster Service... Read More
July 24, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Amy Dueckman

With Mennonite Church Canada's help, Stuart Murray, chair of the Anabaptist Network in the U.K. and author of the Naked Anabaptist, facing camera right rear, engaged pastors and church leaders during a countrywide South Korean speaking tour from April 20 to May 3. Kyong Jung Kim, director of the Korea Anabaptist Center, seated next to Murray, served as Murray's translator. (Photo courtesy of Mennonite Church Canada)

U.K. Anabaptist leader Stuart Murray engaged Anabaptists in South Korea during a country-wide speaking tour this spring.Read More
July 24, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Deborah Froese

This is a typical scene Dyck encountered in the MDS clean-up. --MDS photo

Editor's Note: The response to the flood disaster in High River, Alta, has been overwhelming. Here Gerald and Lee Dyck , who spent a week there directing clean-up efforts, give a... Read More
July 19, 2013 | Web First | Gerald and Lee Dyck, Director for British Columbia
A month after the nation’s leading Christian “ex-gay” group apologized and announced plans to close, a similar Jewish group is facing a first-of-its-kind lawsuit for consumer... Read More
July 18, 2013 | Web First | By CORRIE MITCHELL
Hundreds of millions of dollars set aside to help the world’s poor went unspent in the last fiscal year, new figures from the parliamentary budget office show, prompting fresh... Read More
July 17, 2013 | Web First | Lee Berthiaume
Preaching on the Sunday morning after the George Zimmerman/ Trayvon Martin verdict seemed daunting. It turned out not to be so. The worship bulletin was already printed. Hymns had... Read More
July 15, 2013 | Web First | Dan Webster
On the first anniversary of his inauguration as Egypt’s first ever elected president Mohamed Morsi found himself facing demonstrations, unprecedented in size, demanding his... Read More
July 4, 2013 | Web First | Dina Ezzat
The Archbishop of San Salvador is calling for international support in shutting down a Canadian-owned gold mine just across the border in Guatemala. Archbishop José Luis Escobar... Read More
July 4, 2013 | Web First | Michael Swan
As a Ph.D. student studying Mennonite history, Susie Fisher Stoesz finds it hard sometimes to explain to her family what exactly she does when she goes to her office at the... Read More
July 3, 2013 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Saida Sheikh, a Somali young woman who fled to a refugee camp in northwest Kenya when she was just nine years old, is one of two initial graduates of a World University Service of... Read More
July 3, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
On any given summer day, you will find 22-year-old David Leitch at Investors Group Field receiving passes from the Winnipeg Blue Bomber quarterbacks, joking around with coaches or... Read More
July 3, 2013 | Young Voices | Julia Sisler
Late in this summer’s first blockbuster film, Man of Steel, Superman declares, “I’m as American as it gets!” Truer words were never spoken. But when the overt underlying message... Read More
July 3, 2013 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Vic Thiessen
In recognition of National Aboriginal Day in Canada, on June 21, 2013, Herald Press released Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice and Life Together... Read More
July 3, 2013 | Artbeat |

Engbrecht

“It was an amazing time when I think back,” says Henry Engbrecht. “How could I be so lucky to grow up in that experience?”Read More
July 3, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Oil sands or tar sands? The economy or the environment? The issues are divisive. How can the Mennonite church helpfully engage them constructively?Read More
July 3, 2013 | God at work in the World | By Donita Wiebe-Neufeld

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