Will Braun

3 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

We rarely have guests who eagerly discuss the veneration of icons, but recently our family did. The delightful 28-year-old Latvian-born man who recently spent two weeks with us as part of a small farm volunteer program had returned to the Orthodox faith of his youth and spoke freely about it. I invited him to do a presentation on Orthodox history for our homeschooled teens. He jumped at the chance.

4 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Helen Rempel, 99, grew up three miles from Herschel, Saskatchewan, where she lived until attending Rosthern Junior College. She taught school in Saskatchewan and Winnipeg. Helen and her husband, Art, who died in 2006, had five daughters. They served with Commission on Overseas Mission in Taiwan for three years. Helen served as secretary for the Conference of Mennonites in Canada and has been a member of Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg since 1952. What is your earliest church memory?

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Members of Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite Church are deeply concerned about family and friends in South Sudan and the surrounding countries to which many have fled as hunger and turmoil grip the region. South Sudan is the newest nation state in the world—it came into being in 2011 after decades of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths—and one of the poorest, ranking 192 out of 193 countries on the UN Human Development Index.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Dear Pastors, Leaders, and Members of our Church Family, Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In these days following the election, when some are relieved and others are disappointed—some joyful, others deeply frustrated—we are called to walk in ways that exude grace, humility and hospitality. We are invited to be open to possibilities that have not yet been considered.

2 months ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Not long after M23 rebels captured the city of Bukavu in eastern DRC in February, my colleague Susan Fish spoke with a Mennonite pastor and doctor in Bukavu (article here). On the day after government forces in South Sudan placed the main opposition leader under house arrest last week, creating massive uncertainty in an already uncertain country, I spoke with Pastor Reuben Tut of Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite Church (that article is yet to come).