A well-known Mennonite Brethren historian is busy envisioning the future.
The World Bank reports an increase of approximately 44 million people living in dire poverty (on &1.25 U.S. or less per day) over the past 6 months.
Are we no longer communities of the Spirit?
A late-winter blizzard interrupted travel plans for some of Friday night’s speakers for the 65th provincial convention of the Saskatchewan Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches at Parliament Community Church, Regina, Mar. 11–12, but the longest-serving conference minister Ralph Gliege ably coped with the unexpected.
It used to be that some folks – especially Mennonites from other denominations – were of the opinion Mennonite Brethren thought too highly of themselves. Maybe people still think that way. And maybe Canadian MBs are overly impressed with themselves; although, if you ask me, I’m not so sure.
The pastor of a south Vancouver church plant used to be an engineer. Then Nick Suen traded his calculations for benedictions and went on staff, for almost eight years, at a Chinese MB church in Vancouver. That was before he answered the call to plant a new church in an old but changing neighbourhood, Vancouver’s Marpole.
Why don’t you be the new Herald editor?” A pastor at my church said it first. Then a friend voiced the same challenge.
Children are naturally inquisitive. To encourage conversations about – and love for – the Word of God, start by simply reading the Bible together with them. Respond to their questions. Return the favour and ask them questions too! Here are three questions you may wish to use.
About this issue It’s no coincidence we’re talking about listening to each other as we study Scripture in this issue. The Canadian conference’s biennial study conference – a time to practice hermeneutics in community – will take place in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., Oct. 27–29, and we want to begin preparing hearts and minds for this time of Bible study and fellowship.
Prophetic Peacemaking: Selected Writings of J. R. BurkholderEditor: Keith Graber MillerJ.R. Burkholder is a fox, says Keith Miller, “knowing many things, considering competing viewpoints, and making bottom-up inductive arguments, while doubting the power of the one Big Idea.” The strength of Miller’s compilation of the academic, churchperson, and social activist’s writings about embodying the peaceful discipleship of Christ is its diversity.