Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary held commencement exercises for the Langley, B.C., campus Apr. 21 at Central Heights Church, Abbotsford, B.C., conferring a diploma of Christian studies; masters degrees in Christian studies, crosscultural ministry, applied linguistics and exegesis, marriage and family therapy, and divinity; and a doctor of ministry.
Those words burned into my heart during Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C.’s Palestine-Israel learning tour, Mar. 17–28, 2012. They had exploded at us from the lips of Ardie Geldman, a representative of the Israeli settler movement in the West Bank. “We will never leave.”
Modesty has fallen out of vogue. Fashion has always interested me. Perhaps it was due to the fact my mother was a tailor and sewed most of my clothes as a teenager, and also my elegant wedding dress. She had an eye for materials, style, and colour, and cut out her own patterns to enhance our figures with fashionable modesty.
There she was, a bundle of four-year-old emotion, sobbing on the floor. It was a textbook tantrum. The problem? She simply could not wear the clothes her mother – my sister – had set out for her. “These are not pink!” she bellowed.
“The Queen of Desserts” may have been an apt title to describe my mother. She put a lot of creativity and work into the fine art of the dessert and …
She would sit at the Arborite kitchen table in a housedress, beaming at me while drinking coffee from a chipped mug. We would share stories and laugh together. Then, during …
In 2006, the Canadian conference surveyed a group of Mennonite Brethren pastors from across Canada and made some interesting discoveries about the state of the pastorate at the beginning of …
Reflecting on past moves and next steps It came as a complete shock to almost everyone. In 2005, a relatively obscure Asian technology company named Lenovo bought North American computing …
My earliest memories are from a little village called Githumu in Kenya. Life was good. The school compound where we lived was on a ridge surrounded by tea plantations. My African friends and I explored our little world and made our own adventures. Encounters with chameleons, goats, and pinching ants were normal.