Tag: Once Round the Barn

  • Once Round the Barn: Cheap Edition

    Once Round the Barn: Cheap Edition

    “Most of us harbour a degree of financial neurosis, tinged with religious uptightness,” Will Braun, Canadian Mennonite’s resident ranter, says at the start of his latest video.  Follow our pigpen pundit once around the barn on his southern Manitoba farmyard as he explains what really gets his goat about Mennonites and money. Related stories: The…

  • Once Round the Barn: Twang Edition

    Once Round the Barn: Twang Edition

    Grab your cowboy hat and don’t mind the barn smell! Join Will Braun, Canadian Mennonite’s resident ranter, once around the barn on his southern Manitoba farmyard. This time he challenges you to cue up the country music twang. (See the video below. Then scroll down and check out some more rants.)          …

  • Once Round the Barn: Pat-on-the-back Edition

    Once Round the Barn: Pat-on-the-back Edition

    He’s our resident ranter, our pigpen pundit. Canadian Mennonite writer Will Braun rants around the barn on his southern Manitoba farmyard. This time he’s got opinions on how Mennonites talk about their generosity. (See the video below. Then scroll down more and check out more rants.)    

  • Once Round the Barn: LBGTQ Edition

    Once Round the Barn: LBGTQ Edition

    With a nod to Ranting Rick Mercer, senior writer Will Braun steps into the mess that is the church’s disagreement over same-sex inclusion.     The Maple View insert appeared in the September 25, 2017, print issue of Canadian Mennonite. You can read readers’ responses here:  Readers write: October 23, 2017 issue Readers write: November…

  • Once Round the Barn: Radisson Assembly Edition

    Once Round the Barn: Radisson Assembly Edition

        In this inaugural edition of “Once Round the Barn,” Braun unravels the less-with-more choice of a downtown Radisson as the venue for the 2017 Mennonite Church Canada Special Assembly (which he chose to skip).    See Assembly coverage here: Focus on Special Assembly.   This is the first in the video series, Once…