About a week after New Year’s Day 2014, my friend Keith asked me what resolutions I’d made. Keith is an insightful, non-conformist “Red Letter Christian” in his mid twenties. I... Read More
Opinion
The year was 587 BC. Our spiritual ancestors, the Israelites, were deported to Babylon, where they felt like refugees in a foreign land. Their place of worship, the temple, had... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Editorial |
Lolita fashion article ‘marks a significant shift’ in church discussions Re: “Solace in a subculture,” Nov. 9, 2015, page 28. I want to express appreciation for Katrina Brooks’s... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Viewpoints |
Interviewing guests for more than 100 episodes of Mennonite Church Canada’s radio podcast, Church Matters , has blessed me with the opportunity to learn and grow from the stories... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Viewpoints | Dan Dyck
“It takes a village to raise a child,” we’ve often heard. Does it also take a village to grow old? I wondered after a phone call with a friend who is a generation older than me... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Viewpoints | Melissa Miller
Most of us are not very good at receiving compliments. A friend had just delivered a fine sermon, so I gave him a heartfelt compliment. His deflective, “humble” response was to... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Viewpoints | Arnie Friesen
Second World War conscientious objectors (COs) were often sent to provincial parks for manual labour, as part of their alternative service assignments. This photo, taken between... Read More
December 23, 2015 | Viewpoints | Korey Dyck
Sexual misconduct cases by our pastors are difficult to process. These stories, numbering three in the last two years in congregations across Canada, are even harder to report in... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Editorial |
Demographics play a big role in the future of MCC Re: “ The future of MCC ,” Aug. 31, page 11. I appreciated Will Braun’s attempt to ask this question. Mennonite Central Committee... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Viewpoints |
It may sound a little odd, but I really like my mechanic. I like him because I am very inadequate in my mechanical knowledge and I am grateful for anyone who can provide expertise... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Viewpoints | Rick Neufeld
“We’re at war.” These were the words of French President Francois Hollande after the Paris attacks. This Friday the 13th will be remembered like 9/11. Is war the new reality? Or... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Viewpoints | Phil Wagler
“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and can not... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Viewpoints | Joseph M.Wuol
Every year at Remembrance Day and Peace Sunday, Canadian Mennonites are torn between honouring those who lost their lives through war and entering into a ritual that celebrates... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Editorial |
Leis family ‘victimized by tragedy Re: “ Editors ‘lack . . . understanding on issues of clergy sexual abuse’ ” and “ Readers disappointed in handling of the Vernon Leis matter ”... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Viewpoints |
“Lord, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I need to be, I am not what I am going to be, but, thank God Almighty, I am not what I used to be.” --Prayer from an African... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Viewpoints | Roberson Mbayamvula
December 24. Late morning. I am in the kitchen, making a pot of soup, savouring its scents and colours. Lovely Christmas music pours from the radio. I’m hoping this domestic... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Viewpoints | Melissa Miller
Some time ago, during a morning walk, I found a wallet a few blocks from my house. I looked around, hoping the owner might still be close by, but there was no one. Just me. A peek... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Viewpoints | Darren Pries-Klassen
The weeks leading up to Christmas brought an overwhelming spirit of anticipation to our household when I was growing up. In fact, the intensity of waiting to open our gifts on... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Viewpoints | Troy Watson
The year was 1963. D.W. Friesen and Sons of Altona, Man., publishers of 10-year-old The Canadian Mennonite were struggling to keep the first English-language, inter-Mennonite... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Editorial |
MC Eastern Canada ‘did what was proper and called for’ Re: “ Seeking redemption and peace ” guest editorial by Joyce Gladwell, Sept. 28, page 2. I am disappointed that you would... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints |
How do questions bring you closer to God? The Bible includes several hundred instances where Jesus poses a question to an individual, a small group of followers or a large crowd... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints | Matthew Bailey-Dick
One of the greatest days of Jesus’ ministry was marked by one of his greatest laments. He rides toward Jerusalem amid a worshipping throng waving palm branches and declaring... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints | Phil Wagler
My memories of the church I grew up in are good ones. I liked seeing my friends in Sunday school every week and enjoyed singing in the grown-up service. The Halloween game nights... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints | Katie Doke Sawatzky
During my first year as a member of the Women of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (WMCEC) executive, I was fortunate to be invited to an information session about the possibility... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints | Linda Wiens
This photo is of a men’s quartet singing for a radio broadcast in a Vancouver Mennonite church basement circa the 1960s. Advances in mass communication such as radio were first... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Viewpoints | Conrad Stoesz