A kilted piper and the sounds of Amazing Grace shattered the opening silence at my daughter’s November 11 service at her school. She was in Grade 3.
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A stone to revive memories: the life of Jakob Reimer
by ContributorA remarkable story has unfolded in recent years to revive the memory of one of the founders of the Mennonite Brethren Church.
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Being truly Christian in times of conflict
by ContributorSince the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, militarism and the polarization of the world into “good guys” and “bad guys” has been up. The current war in Afghanistan has …
He runs through the kitchen with a flurry of “bangs,” “pows,” and “zings,” brightly coloured plastic toys flapping around his waist. How many daggers, lasers, and water pistols can one …
On Christmas Eve, 1941, in the front lines of a World War II battlefield, a young German officer named Siegfried Bartel had an experience that changed his life.
Poetry by Darrell Epp
No matter how I looked at her, Lois was not appealing to me. She was much too heavy, slow of speech – though she talked a lot and could become …
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Thanking from the heart, Alzheimer’s-style
by ContributorWhen I visited my mother in the nursing home a few years ago while she still had more access to speech, I was privileged to watch her happiness as she …
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A meditation on loss, refugee-making, and the feast of grace
by ContributorThe Mennonite family – ten children – is stuffed into a boxy 1930 Chrysler, the younger ones standing or sitting on laps. Southern Alberta’s chinook wind sandpapers the car’s windows …
The year was 1945. World War II had ended just months before. Clara was busy packing and getting ready for a journey into the unknown, the Belgian Congo. She and …
The students of Instituto Biblico Asuncion (IBA) were on their mid-term break, but July offered little respite to the school’s director, Martin Hartwig Eitzen.
To be honest, my motivation for going to Paraguay had more to do with visiting the land of my husband’s birth than attending the Mennonite World Conference. I hasten to …
“Are you a Mennonite?” a policeman asked as Ditrich Pana approached the huge white church where 5,800 Anabaptists from around the world had gathered.
Five women from India who attended Assembly 15….