Watch: Worship led by MC Canada leadership
Doug Klassen, executive minister for Mennonite Church Canada, has recorded a sermon for churches to use during this time of social distancing. It is expected that many congregations will not meet on Sunday, March 22, and for several Sundays afterward, to limit the spread of COVID-19. MC Canada created the video in recognition that leadership…
Watch: Eco-anxiety spurs creativity
How do you reckon with the feeling that everything is changing? That sense that crises are converging? With the notion that we have some big choices to make individually and collectively? Those questions get at some of the ideas at play in “Caring at the End of the World,” a new video from Eco-Anxious Stories…
Watch: How did we become so polarized?
Why does polarization so frequently characterize our discourse? How can people find common ground? Those were two of the questions at the heart of “Us and Them: How did we become so polarized?”, a panel discussion held at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) earlier this month. “So many people today live in their own echo chambers,…
Watch: A one-minute history of Valentine’s Day
Whether you scoff at the billion-dollar industry that Feb. 14 has become or use the day to show your affection for the people you love—or something in between—there’s no denying that Valentine’s Day has a fascinating backstory. This video, from the One Minute History channel on YouTube, gives a 60-second overview of the day’s origins.…
Watch: Dispatches from a SALTer in Colombia
Our recent Focus on Education issue featured a reflection by Hannah Larson, a young woman serving in northeastern India with Mennonite Central Committee’s Serving and Learning Together program. If Larson’s piece didn’t give you enough of an idea of what SALT is like, watch the video below. The three-minute piece features Victoria Callow, who entered…
Watch: Katie Sowers is making Super Bowl history
Katie Sowers will make history next weekend as the first woman and first openly gay person to coach during the Super Bowl. The 33-year-old is an offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers, who will face the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Feb. 2 in Super Bowl LIV. She’s also an alumna of two…
Watch: How to make peppernuts
If you’re interested in making peppernuts this holiday season and the recipe on our website won’t cut it, you’re in luck: Kristin “Baker Bettie” Hoffman has just the thing for you. Earlier this month, the Chicago-based baking instructor uploaded a video to YouTube in which she demonstrates how to make the tiny round treats. You…
Watch: ‘You need to try out,’ coaches sing
“You Need to Calm Down” may be a song in which pop superstar Taylor Swift addresses her detractors, but in the hands of the coaching staff at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, it’s a song about trying out for athletics. Coaches at the Kitchener school showed their parody of Swift’s Grammy-nominated hit, titled “You Need to Try…
Watch: MCEC church helps Montreal’s homeless
Montreal has been hit with unseasonably cold weather this month, and a Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) congregation is doing what it can to help members of the city’s homeless population get by. Hochma church is the home to Care Montreal, an outreach program that opens its doors to around 30 people every night. The program…
Watch: ‘Peace be with you’ in nine languages
Peace Sunday is coming up on Nov. 10 and Ontario Mennonite Music Camp has created a resource to help churches mark the occasion. In the short video below, OMMC campers and staff demonstrate how to say “Peace be with you” in Amharic, French, German, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish and three other languages. “We would love if…
