Mobile app extends reach of Anabaptist prayer book
Users in 15 countries across six continents have downloaded a new free mobile app version of Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book in the four weeks since its launch on Oct. 23, 2017. The app contains the entire text of both print volumes of the prayer book—Ordinary Time and Advent through…
Harvesting ideas for a new Mennonite Church Saskatchewan
It’s harvest time on the Prairies for farmers on their combines, and this year for members of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan as they met for their second Refresh, Refocus, Renew mini-retreat. About 75 participants, representing 24 MC Saskatchewan congregations, gathered at Wildwood Mennonite Church in Saskatoon on Sept. 15 and 16, 2017. Betty Pries, a managing…
On becoming a better person
Although I had biked 21 kilometres to work and spent the hot day bent over in a vegetable patch just south of Winnipeg, I was still pushing hard on my ride home. I loved passing the hot-shot cyclists who frequented the same route. On that day of particular exertion and clarity, my sense of drive…
Theology for toddlers
Here’s an unusual question: Do the children in your life read theology books? It might seem odd to combine a big, academic word like theology (the study of God, or God-talk) with young children, but I wanted to talk about a book that combines these two worlds seamlessly. Around my son’s first birthday, I found…
A Good Place to Be
A new year begins. It’s such an exciting and fun time of the year. So many expectations, plan, and ideas for how the year will go. It always ends up completely different. Sure some of the big things, work, school, study, people in the community will be fairly predictable, but people really have no…
Seven gestures of contemplation
I find hope as I tend to my mystical side. As a youth growing up in church, I did this through prayer. But, in spite of my earnestness, it often felt formulaic and contrived. In my journey since then, I’ve been through a desert of no prayer and drab contact with God. I’ve been through…
