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Iconoclastic Humility

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.
Small-Town Saskatchewan Practicality

4 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky |David Wiebe

Curtis Wiens, pastor of Aberdeen Mennonite Church, doesn’t consider himself a heavy smartphone user—“I’ve never downloaded a menu QR code in my life”—but he still limited his screen-time during Lent, leaving his phone on a kitchen shelf and treating it like a landline. “It’s exposed how much time I spend with my eyeballs on that screen,” he said.
Making the Most of My Days

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?
New book examines how Jesus read his Bible

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

CommonWord hosted a book launch on March 6 for Mennonite Church Manitoba executive minister Michael Pahl’s book, The Word Fulfilled: Reading the Bible with Jesus. Fifty-three people gathered at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and 34 online. Published by Herald Press in 2024, The Word Fulfilled is Pahl’s sixth book. It examines the ways in which Jesus engaged with Scripture. “How can we actually follow Jesus in how he read his Bible?” said Pahl in his opening remarks.
South Sudan crisis concerns Edmonton church

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.
‘Mama meets with the people’

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Adriana Appleton’s three-year-old daughter knows what her father’s job is—“Daddy works on the choo-choo trains”—but when it comes to Adriana’s work, all the toddler knows is that “Mama meets with the people.”It’s age-appropriately vague. Appleton, 33, is the executive director of The Micah Mission in Saskatoon. In that role, she meets regularly with federal inmates, individuals recently released after being in prison for causing sexual harm, and people on parole.
Pastoral letter following federal election

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.
Epic embroidery - Canadian Mennonite Magazine

2 months ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

For 18 years, Sandra Sawatzky has been working with thread and fabric, embroidering pictures and text on large fabric panels that take years to create. The 67-year-old from Calgary, is exhibiting two works this spring. Her 2022 work, The Age of Uncertaint,y is at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until early March and her 2017 piece The Black Gold Tapestry, a 67-metre long history of humanity’s relationship with oil, is part of a group show at the Museum of Design Atlanta, in Georgia until May.
Small, hurting world

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).
Témoignage d’un pasteur en pleine violence en RDC

Mar 28, 2025 | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Parlant depuis son domicile à Bukavu, en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), le 23 février, Josué Seleman a raconté des troubles dans la ville de Bukavu depuis l’entrée des rebelles paramilitaires M-23 dans la ville le 14 février, trois semaines après avoir capturé la ville de Goma dans l’est du pays. Seleman est médecin et aussi le pasteur d’une église de la Communauté des Églises des Frères Mennonites au Congo, le plus grand groupe Mennonite de la RDC, avec presque 100,000 membres.