Fifty years of listening to poets
A new book celebrates the work of one of the foremost scholars of Mennonite literature.
A new book celebrates the work of one of the foremost scholars of Mennonite literature.
From southern Manitoba to B.C., and from Idaho to India, Bill Block had a long and varied career as a pastor.
I am a huge advocate for the local church.
It is the gathering of people around the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus that frees our imaginations and forms our hearts to be a different kind of nation on the earth.
I recently attended the Mennonite Church Manitoba annual general meeting (AGM) in Winkler. I find those events both energizing and demoralizing, which is why I have attended only a few in my life.
With the theme of “Stuck Together,” delegates from all 23 congregations rejoiced together, wrestled with a budget deficit and welcomed a new church plant at the 2024 Mennonite Church B.C. annual meeting.
I’ve been writing this column for four-and-a-half years, and I’m sure I’ve used the same ideas more than once. In this, my last column, I return to the two core ideas that I get passionate about the most often.
There is plenty of danger in a single story, and yet my story is not dissimilar to many others.