When Henry and Hilda Schulz of Sanford, Man., were still farming, one of the crops they grew was barley. As friends at their church—Sargent Avenue Mennonite in Winnipeg—learned... Read More
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Marketed “for twenty- and thirty-somethings who wish they could do camp again,” Pastors in Exile (PiE) and Silver Lake Mennonite Camp near Sauble Beach, Ont., ran what they called... Read More
April 18, 2016 | Web First | Chris Brnjas
It’s a Holy Week tradition by now in Abbotsford. On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, a local bookstore/coffee shop is packed with an audience enthusiastic to hear blues music... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Amy Rinner Waddell
“Take heart, it is I. Do not be afraid.” Chuck Neufeld’s confident voice set the tone for the 2016 Mennonite Church Alberta delegate assembly as he sang the theme words from Mark... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
A new half-hour documentary gives voice to lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) people in Mennonite Church Canada congregations. Listening Church , which weaves... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Will Braun
Jules Koostachin began her journey to dance in a jingle dress as an act of intergenerational healing, thinking that she would complete it in a year. Filmmaker James Buffin decided... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the World |
We just dipped our toe into the world of youth sports by signing our seven-year-old son, Sam, up for a T-ball team. Last summer he discovered a love for baseball and loves playing... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Focus On | Natasha Krahn
Theology, Spirituality Deuteronomy: Believers Church Bible Commentary. Gerald E. Gerbrandt. Herald Press, 2015, 600 pages. This is the 29th volume in the Believers Church Bible... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Focus On Books & Resources |
From plain coats to lace-covered wedding dresses, Amanda Bartel, a history major from Iowa City, Iowa, is cataloging Bluffton University’s historic clothing collection to learn... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Web First |
When Katrina Sklepowich was assigned to write a weekly blog as part of her school work, focussing on literature was an obvious choice. “I love books and I’m always reading, so I... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Ask Amanda Zehr what her favourite Bible story is, and she points to John 9, where Jesus heals a blind man. “It really questions who the blind one is,” says Zehr, associate pastor... Read More
April 6, 2016 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
First nations, Lutheran and Mennonite movie-goers crowded into Saskatoon’s Roxy Theatre on March 13, 2016, popcorn in hand, to watch the premiere of Reserve 107: Reconciliation on... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First | Donna Schulz
Mennonite churches in Europe are responding to the violence and displacement in the Middle East that is affecting their society. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeiden (AMG,... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First |
Conrad Grebel University College hosted Sir James MacMillan as the 2016 Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar. The Scottish composer and conductor, best known for his sacred... Read More
April 5, 2016 | Web First | Nicole Simone
Because I grew up in the Mennonite tradition, conscientious objection is not a foreign concept to me. I was raised to value peace over violence and to treat every human life as... Read More
March 30, 2016 | Web First | Emily Mininger
Steve Heinrichs is passionate about healing broken relationships between indigenous and settler peoples. As Mennonite Church Canada’s director of indigenous relations, he is... Read More
March 28, 2016 | Web First | Deborah Froese
Canadian Mennonite thanks everyone who took the time to fill out the reader survey distributed late in 2015. The responses were positive overall and showed that the magazine is... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Conflict within, uncertainties without. Perhaps it was because of these that planners of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions chose “Bound together, freed to... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Emily Summach
Despite a warm winter, there was enough of the white stuff for youth from Mennonite churches across Alberta to call their annual winter retreats “snow camps.” On the weekends of... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Bryan Moyer Suderman, an itinerant Bible teacher from Stouffville, Ont., who is also widely known as an Anabaptist singer-songwriter, led Pastors Week sessions at this year’s event at AMBS entitled ‘The Bible says what?’ (Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary photo)
In her opening address to this year’s Pastors Week event at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, held during the last week of January 2016, Jewel Gingerich Longenecker, the... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Anika Reynar presents the vision of Emerging Voices Initiative to the Mennonite Church Manitoba annual general meeting at Bethel Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, on March 5, 2016. (Photo by Beth Epp)
Never let it be said that young people don’t care about the future of the church. Late last year, Katrina Woelk, a sociology student at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) and a... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the Church | J. Neufeld
For the most part, Syrians forced from their homes dream not of going to Europe or Canada, but of going back home. “They are in love with their country,” say Mennonite Central... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
The federal government sometimes “matches” donations made by Canadians for specific causes. Does this mean that if you give $100 to MCC for Syria, Ottawa gives another $100 to MCC... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
Scott Eyre, residence director of Cedarwood Hall at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), sports photographer for the Royals, and soon-to-be-graduate, says the journey to the... Read More
March 23, 2016 | God at work in Us | Randi B. Hagi
