While Vancouver is known as the world-class city that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, North American Mennonite Brethren will remember this city as the backdrop for another once-in-a-lifetime event: …
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Young leaders engage each other and conference
by Karla Braun“What is emerging adulthood?” and “How do we deal with it?” were questions raised on the floor of Renewing Identity and Mission sessions. An answer to the second was provided …
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Discovering together who we were, are, and will be
by Karla BraunRenewing Identity and Mission: a consultation on MB history, theology and calling “After 150 years, you’d think we’d know who we are,” one participant noted at the Renewing Identity and …
A North American celebration of 150 years of the MB church At the winter Olympics earlier this year, the stylized image of an inukshuk was everywhere. Inuksuit, used by Inuit …
Text Examined: 1 John 3:1-2 – “While I waited at an X-ray clinic, a man in a business suit shattered the peace and quiet with a loud cellphone call. I …
“Brothers” is a picture of both love and struggle as the younger brother is mediating between tears and laughter in the rough embrace of his older sibling.
Cold and wintry day… same work, same place
She was all excited when they got home from school. “I’ve got a new pen pal!” she announced.
Photography Winner Mathias Fast, Title: Canoa
Robin Knox Title: The Lions of CarWash Rock Robin Knox lives in Prince Rupert, B.C., where she and her husband attend Cornerstone MB Church. Melissa Townsend Title: Inheritance: always enough …
Kingdom snow falls like seed on the fields on the roads piling up growing stopping everything like a parable Randy Klassen teaches Bible, literature, and music at Bethany College …
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Honorable mention prose: Grandpa Jacob’s bible
by ContributorI can hear everything through these walls. “I just don’t know what to do with him anymore; he seems so lost.” Mom’s on the phone with Grandma. She’s right. I …
She called it the Jesus bus. Actually, it was an ordinary transit bus that stopped near her place and took her downtown when the monotony and confinement of her condo …
Jazmine Lawrence Title: Mediterranean Sea at the foot of Mount Carmel (Haifa, Israel – November 2009) Jazmine Lawrence lives with her husband in Halifax, N.S., where they are a …
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Our extraordinarily ordinary age
by James ToewsWe are seduced by the language of the “superlative degree.” Our own noisy authorities know that this gets our attention, and so it is a rare social commentary that fails …