Singing Back the Buffalo documents buffalo rematriation efforts by Indigenous nations and tribes in Canada and the U.S.
Credit: buffalosong.com.
Last week I attended a screening of Singing Back the Buffalo, written and directed by Tasha Hubbard, with my family at the Regina Public Library Film Theatre. The last time we’d seen buffalo together was in 2018 in Grasslands National Park.
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Greetings from Myanmar.
Richard DuBois, an artist from Pasqua First Nation, completed a mural for the healing garden in 2023. Credit: Katie Doke Sawatzky.
On Sept. 7, Westminster United Church in Regina dedicated a medicine wheel in its Kâkesimokamik, “healing garden,” to local Elder Lorna Standingready.
While writing the article, "MCC accused of inadequate response to sexual assault allegation in Mozambique," Canadian Mennonite sent questions to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) via email. Some of the responses are, of course, quoted in the article. Below are the complete replies sent on September 16 by Laura Kalmar, interim senior director of advancement for MCC Canada.
Gardens irrigated by a sand dam in Phiri-Meque, Mozambique. Photo by Katie Moyer.
“I wanted to help people gain access to water,” Katie Moyer says of her motivation for taking an assignment with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Mozambique in 2016. It was her first job after earning an engineering degree from Messiah University in Pennsylvania, her home state.
Siaka Traoré, a church leader in Burkina Faso. MWC photo by Christian Argha Aditya.
The following update and prayer request was sent by Siaka Traoré to Tany Warkentin of Mennonite Church Canada on August 30. Traoré is the Mennonite World Conference regional representative for Central and West Africa as well as a long-time church leader in Burkina Faso.
Avon Church youth in a Montreal urban garden and community centre. Photo: Stephen Kennedy
“That was a test. True servants are always listening.”
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.
Camp Valaqua. Photo: Jon Olfert.
When Camp Valaqua director Jon Olfert received a text on July 23 from a friend working with Alberta Wildfire saying that there was a three-acre fire 25 kilometres northwest of the camp, he didn’t think much of it. Olfert, who also works as deputy fire chief with the local Water Valley Fire Department, knew three acres was a small fire.
Photo: A. S. Compton
A sign next to land slated for expropriation between Baden and New Hamburg, Ontario. Photo: A. S. Compton
On an average day, approximately 320 acres of Ontario farmland are lost to development and, apparently, now it’s our turn.
Young adults gathered at B.C.'s Camp Squeah in June to discuss an active future in the church. Photo: Amy Rinner Waddell
Two dozen young adults came together at Camp Squeah in Hope, B.C., for a weekend of listening, conversation, reflection and music to envision their future and that of the Anabaptist church.
Israeli Jew Jeff Halper speaking at an MCEC lunch event. Photo: A. S. Compton
Israeli-Jewish author and organizer Jeff Halper spoke at a June 25 lunch gathering organized by the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) Palestine-Israel Network (PIN).
Those gathered at Six Nations Polytechnic on July 6 partook of strawberry juice for communion. Photo: Victoria Veenstra
On July 6, more than 160 people from a variety of denominations and organizations gathered in Ohsweken, Ontario, for a Strawberry Thanksgiving and Communion hosted by Six Nations Polytechnic and co-organized by Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCCO) and Adrian Jacobs, also known as Ganoson
Resonate youth and leaders attend a filmmaking workshop at the Toronto Public Library. Photo: Josiah Cheltenham
Photo: Madalene Arias
"I’m always amazed at how quickly people dismiss the arts,” says Steve Norton, a pastor and film critic at Conne
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Following community pressure, in early July, the University of Waterloo (UW) in Waterloo, Ontario, dropped all legal charges against a group of students and concerned community members who were calling on the university to divest of any company that supports Israel as the war against Gaza cont
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
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.
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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.
The 2024 MCC calendar. Photo by J. Burwalde
Our recent article, “Involuntary: Terminated MCC workers call for accountability and change” (posted online on June 20 and appearing in our July print issue), is a particularly sensitive and important piece.
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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.
People from Windsor Mennonite Fellowship join a rally in support of safe consumption sites at their MPP’s office. Supplied Photo
Rielly McLaren, Photo: Sarah Kivell
Rielly McLaren says the grief caused by toxic drug deaths feels staggering and palpable in his community. McLaren, who pastors Windsor Mennonite Fellowship, also serves as chaplain to men transitioning into new communities after completing prison sentences.
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.
The following statement was provided to Canadian Mennonite by Laura Kalmar, Director of Marketing and Communications, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada
May 14, 2024
(MCC posted a subsequent statement online on June 18, 2024.)
