Resourcing the Anabaptist church
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Over 500 years, the Anabaptist community has grown to be a diverse and global expression of faith. The resources of Anabaptism reflect this diversity.
Opinion
Readers Write: October 2024
Love and Hate
Restless hearts in Hollywood
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So, a struggling actor and a pastor walk into a bar ...
Walking through open doors
Photo: Mike Thiessen
John and Edna Peters, 87 and 86, respectively, live in Winnipeg, where they are charter members of Charleswood Mennonite Church.
Making space might save someone's life
Grace Ibrahima. Photo: A.S. Compton.
Notice: This article mentions addiction, rape and abortion.
Let's agree to disagree
In my Zimbabwean African culture, elders are so revered that they are never seen as doing anything wrong.
Can't we all just get along?
Photo: Sai Abhinivesh Burla/Unsplash
Are you losing hope in the possibility of everyone getting along?
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
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.
Living my land acknowledgement
Heather Block enjoying Treaty 1 Territory. Supplied Photo
I was nervous the first time I offered a land acknowledgement in church, wondering how people would respond. Afterwards, one person thanked me while another questioned whether a land acknowledgement had any place in a worship service.
A view to worldly culture
“You’ve given in to the culture.”
Pressed into the ground
Ruth, Miles, Andre and Theo Wiederkehr in the corn patch. Supplied Photo
Theo Wiederkehr's seed bank. Photo: Will Braun
“It’s nice to get to choose our humility,” my father reflected recently. Sometimes, however, we don’t get to. What do we do when we feel forced to be humble—what we often call humiliated?
There's a gift in every day
Marion and Erv Wiens during their daily morning walk. Photo: Susan Fish
Erv and Marian Wiens, both 82, have been married for 60 years. Raised in the Mennonite Brethren Church, they worked with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Kenya, Zambia, and Ontario.
Making connections
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Hello to everyone from the new Mennonite Church Alberta moderator.
Living in peculiarity, embracing Anabaptism
In the history of Ethiopia, Christianity was first introduced into the royal court around the 4th century, gradually spreading among the common people from there.
The path to peace includes Hamas
Jonathan Kuttab, speaking at an MCC Ontario event in 2016.
I am not, and have never been, a supporter or apologist for Hamas.
MCC executive directors respond to concerns of former workers
Rick Cober Bauman and Ann Graber Hershberger. Supplied photos
The following opinion piece is an additional response by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to serious concerns raised in our “Involuntary” article (July 2024) as well as in the online petition and open letter referenced in that article and posted online by a group of seven former MCC worke
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.
Readers Write: July 2024
A Mennonite Life
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.
Threads of unity - Diversity in faith and tradition
The tilet is a quintessential feature of Ethiopian traditional attire, deeply rooted in our religious, ethnic and identity symbolism.
Why we asked MCM to sign a call for a fossil fuel treaty
Our society is in the middle of a painful, promising and complicated shift. We know we need to stop burning fossil fuels.
A Place to Hate
Hate – Ryan Dueck
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