Let's agree to disagree
In my Zimbabwean African culture, elders are so revered that they are never seen as doing anything wrong.
Volume 28 Issue 11
Can't we all just get along?
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Are you losing hope in the possibility of everyone getting along?
Not your typical youth mission trip
Avon Church youth in a Montreal urban garden and community centre. Photo: Stephen Kennedy
“That was a test. True servants are always listening.”
Big tent, small centre
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Here in British Columbia—the West of the West, where West and true East meet in North America—we sometimes tend
Amplifier of youth voices moves on
Kirsten Hamm-Epp (centre) at an RJC High School retreat at Camp Kadish. Photo: RJC High School
The end of summer 2024 also marks the end of over a decade of commitment to youth ministry for Kirsten Hamm-Epp, regional church minister for Mennonite Church Saskatchewan.
Binding and loosing in an age of division
For the past three years, the United States has been my home, and in the U.S., division is impossible to ignore. Liberals on the left, conservatives on the right.
Finding a home in the MB conference
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Brent Kipfer’s Mennonite Church Canada pedigree is solid: he grew up at Poole Mennonite Church in Poole, Ontario, attended Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, graduated from Canadian Mennonite Bible College and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and became pastor of a Mennonite Church Eastern C
Readers Write: September 2024
Questions about MCC ethos
Volume 28 Issue 11
Cover Date:
August 30, 2024
Switchers and exiters
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Joel Thiessen, Supplied Photo
Why do people switch or exit a church or denomination? And why do some churches leave a denomination altogether?
Leaving a church that left
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Harv Wiebe—not his real name—did not agree with his congregation’s decision to leave the regional church, but still, he hoped things would work out for the congregation he had once pastored.
Dear Church
