Readers Write: October 2024
Love and Hate I agree with Ryan Dueck’s insightful article, “A place for hate” (June 2024), particularly in today’s harsh world. In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon observed there is a season for everything, including love and hate. This may seem chilling. Yet, Solomon also acknowledged that God makes everything beautiful in its time. Finding peace requires…
Readers Write: September 2024
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 done. When I first read the open letter, I was distraught, but I shouldn’t have been; the appeal for accountability should be heard by leadership in all of our organizations. I’ve witnessed abrupt…
Readers Write: August 2024 – Responses to ‘Involuntary’
From resigned MCC’ers For 17 of the past 32-plus years, we worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in four countries. MCC was instrumental in forming the values we try to live by today. We are grateful for this. On our last assignment, during which Dave served as an interim representative (overseeing programing in a country),…
Readers write: March 8, 2024
To pay the price of peace Thank you for the February 21 webinar with Maoz Inon. He reminds me of the many Israelis who work for peace by embodying forgiveness, hope, justice and reconciliation. Their witness affirms my commitment to Anabaptism. The three Abrahamic religions clearly value the sacredness of life. The Qur’an states: “Whoever…
Readers write: November 17, 2023
Clarification Dying With Dignity Canada would like to add to and clarify some of the information shared in Conrad Brunk’s letter to the editor (“Readers write,” November 3). In the Government of Canada’s 2022 annual report on medical assistance in dying (MAID), it was reported by clinicians that 77.6 percent of patients who received MAID…
Readers write: November 3, 2023 issue
Gratitude for foyer discussions Today I got my COVID booster. Other than a barely perceptible soreness in my arm, I have never experienced side effects from these vaccinations. When it comes to being pro-vaccine, my wife and I are in the minority on her side of the family. Right now, I am tempted to boast…
Readers write: October 20, 2023 issue
Pay attention to artists Thanks for your willingness to address tough issues facing the church and other institutions in our society. I appreciate your attempt at enlarging the tent by listening to voices that have been marginalized. It is hard work to really listen to a voice that is different from the majority, and much…
Readers write: October 6, 2023 issue
Thank you for this excellent, nuanced article (“The gift of life, the question of death,” September 22). Clearly, patients have always made private, off-the-books decisions with the help and hindrance of doctors and loved ones alike. Those conversations must always have been deeply complex and difficult. Since medical assistance in dying (MAID) is now legal…
Readers write: September 22, 2023 issue
Wrestling I read your piece (“The duty of tension,” June 16) and I’ve been wrestling with the content. It was a great editorial, and I commend your willingness to stomach the rhetoric for the sake of journalism (and in promotion of open-mindedness). As a member of the Green Party of Manitoba, I had the opportunity…
Readers write: August 25, 2023 issue
Humans, humus and healing The portrait of a family living a subsistence-level lifestyle (“Humans and Humus,” July 28) might well serve to trigger a resolve to be more self-sustaining and less wasteful in many. Seems to me, though, that eschewing the mechanization and the advances of the Green Revolution will never be an answer to…
