Community found in the kitchen
Well-loved recipes for salad and rollkuchen. Cookbook: Maurya Braun, Background: Victor Serban/Unsplash
In 1989, my grandmother, Lorraine Braun, began creating a cookbook for my mother, Maurya.
Volume 28 Issue 9
Jeep Weekend
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If I’m not careful, I find myself surrounded by similar-minded individuals who are great at reflecting my own perspectives and values back at me. In a society that continues to grow increasingly polarized and tribalistic, the ease with which this can happen worries me.
Tokyo Anabaptist Centre a hub of activity
Volunteers prime a wall as part of renovations to the Tokyo Anabaptist Centre. Photo: Gerald Neufeld
The Tokyo Anabaptist Centre has been a busy—and sometimes dusty—place this year, reports Gerald Neufeld, Canadia
Readers Write: July 2024
A Mennonite Life
Actually, love your enemies
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Alayna Smith, Supplied photo
A couple of years ago my sister and I had hammock party at the park with our friends.
Alberta event explores wild hope for creation
Leng Thang (left to right), Tim Wiebe-Neufeld, Bill Christieson and Elizabeth Wall at the Griffith Woods Natural Environment Park, as part of an MC Alberta creation event. Photo: Margaret Kruger-Harder
Don’t get “stuck in rage or paralyzed by fear,” said Joanne Moyer.
How to disagree with the beloved of God
David Boshart, AMBS president, talks with Olufemi (Femi) Fatunmbi, a student from Los Angeles, California, during orientation week in 2021. Opposite page, graduate students meet in the AMBS courtyard in April 2023. Photo: Jason Bryant/AMBS
‘When tension starts to emerge, the natural inclination is to speed up and move past it,’ says David Boshart. ‘That’s exactly the wrong impulse.’ Photo: Peter Ringenberg/AMBS
Ian Funk remembers the last time he arrived on campus at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS)—how he walked into the guest house late at night and was welcomed by a fellow student sitting at the dining room table. People heard them exchanging greetings and popped out of their rooms.
Ninety-two-year-old artist publishes children's book
Photo: Ruth Bergen Braun
When Rita Dahl was a child, the bottom third of the family’s kitchen door was her canvas. The top sections were for her older sisters to draw on.
A bullet point editorial
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This issue of CM contains much intense material. I want to take this opportunity to not add to that, (though I had started writing about an unanswerable question I inherited when I took this job).
Faith before flags
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I spent my mid-twenties holding my disability flag high, confident that I’d found my calling. This was my cause. These were my people.
The urgency of untidy joy
I’ve been thinking again about joy.
Open to the Spirit
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Just over a year ago, I invited readers of Canadian Mennonite to share their Holy Spirit experiences with me (April 6, 2023). I was pleasantly surprised by the response. I was moved and encouraged by the messages I received.
Long live Ubuntu
Every Tuesday evening, my five sisters, two cousins and I join Aunt Musa Mashamba for online prayers.
A church of surprises
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What lies ahead? As I write this reflection, I have just completed my first week as executive minister of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan.
Seeking God in a 'thin place'
Photo: Ainsley Dunn
I grew up attending a relatively small Mennonite church—Foothills Mennonite in Calgary—with my family. My family was fairly involved in my church, and I grew up with a typical Mennonite faith.
Seeing beauty and injustice
Since her death in 1943, Simone Weil’s philosophy has impacted dozens of writers, thinkers and theologians. T.S. Eliot named her a saint. Simone de Beauvoir envied her spirit.
Volume 28 Issue 9
Cover Date:
June 21, 2024
Involuntary: Terminated MCC workers call for accountability and change
A potholder Anicka Fast received at MCC orientation. Photo: John Clarke
MCC Calendar, 2024. Photo: J. Burwalde
“I still use it,” Anicka Fast says of the brownish knitted potholder she received at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) orientation in Akron, Pennsylvania, in 2009.
