IN DEFENSE OF PRIVILEGE: RUSSIAN MENNONITES AND THE STATE BEFORE AND DURING WORLD WAR I. ABRAHAM FRIESEN. KINDRED PRODUCTIONS, 2006. As this book’s title suggests, Russian Mennonites were a privileged people. …
Title: Fan the Flame
Author: Rob Des Cotes
Fan the Flame is a collection of short meditations that invites readers to reflect gently and intentionally on their relationship with God. Rob des Cotes, a spiritual director and pastor…I distinctly remember the first time I forced myself to vomit. I was in high school. I had no idea that with one choice, in one instant of time, I had stuck my toe in quicksand and would never be able to get out.
Christians get divorced too I’ve been to a lot of weddings in my life. But so far I’ve been to only one divorce ceremony. It happened last year, when I …
“We need the peacemaking presence of Mennonites here,” Muslim leaders emphasized when meeting a team of five Anabaptists in the Philippines during April, 2005. Mindanao in southern Philippines has experienced …
Sunday, October 16 marked one such celebration as the 17 Chinese MB churches in B.C. bid farewell to Enoch and Grace Wong, who are now in their 80s and retiring to a seniors home in Scarborough, Ont.
I needed to hear from God. Life was at one of those crossroads that definitely called for His voice. I was running up against a wall of weariness, exasperation and …
A personal tour through the past 50 years of Mennonite Brethren seminary education, by president emeritus Elmer A. Martens In the fall of 1955, I left Saskatchewan in a 1950 …
A global multicultural community of faith People still sometimes associate the label “Mennonite” with the German language,certain foods or specific surnames. While German-Russian ethnicity was the cultural conduit through which …
This February, Port Moody (B.C.) Pacific Grace MB Church celebrated its tenth anniversary. In celebrating, we reflected on the church’s history and traced its beginnings to the positive response of …