Risking introspection
Dirk Willms rescues his enemy. Holland, 1569. Engraving by Jan Luyken in Martyr’s Mirror. File from Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
I recently met someone who is new to Anabaptism after decades in other churches.
Will Braun
Once Round the Barn: Cheap Edition
Another trip around the barn: In the video below, pigpen pundit Will Braun explores the difference between frugality and tightfistedness. (Photo by Jennifer deGroot)
“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.
Two more Manitoba churches leave MC Canada
Graysville Mennonite Church and Blumenort Mennonite Church, both in southern Manitoba, have voted to part ways with Mennonite Church Canada and their area church, MC Manitoba. The decisions, made in February and March 2017, respectively, were primarily a response to the resolution passed at the MC Canada assembly last summer related to same-sex matters. Cam Stockford, chair of the Graysville Mennonite church council, said some people in the congregation were troubled that the broader church was so wrapped up in this particular matter.
