Canadian Mennonite

2 weeks 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).

3 weeks ago | 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.

3 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

When David Fitch speaks about church and power, his starting point is not any big thoughts from the seminary classrooms he’s so familiar with or even his experience as pastor of a majority-Black church. It’s the “cesspool” of the Chicago financial sector, where he spent 10 years as a dangerously successful broker and financial manager. He begins with his own stark experience of how the power of money and influence grabbed hold of his soul and how the power of God saved him from that grasp.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

A retired veteran of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) management put it bluntly (off-record): “MCC is not a priesthood of all believers.”I don’t know if any Mennonite organizations are. Most, like this magazine, are hierarchies, and many use some version of the Carver model of governance. While such matters may be boring for many readers, this technical, behind-the-scenes stuff affects lives.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Tany Warkentin’s experience on a recent learning pilgrimage in South Africa has inspired her to deepen the connections and relationships she’s forming in her own life and work. “I don’t know if I’ve experienced one week that has caused so much reflection in so many different areas of my life,” Warkentin said. Warkentin, 45, is in her fourth year as Mennonite Church Canada’s liaison to ministry in Africa.