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Longhurst: No easy fix for decline

A new book is out on the state of the church in Canada. The picture it paints is pretty grim. Called Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances

John Longhurst

July 2, 2018

Longhurst: Secular, not faithless

This year is Canada’s 150th anniversary. The government will host celebrations to mark the country’s heritage, cultural diversity, citizenship, social contract, respect for pluralism, official

John Longhurst

May 8, 2017

8 reasons Canadians don’t go to church

In Canada, as in the U.S., lots of people don’t attend church. About 80 percent of Canadians and 60 percent of Americans do something else

John Longhurst

March 14, 2016

CMU squashes false tale with story of growing relations

WINNIPEG, Man. — Canadian Mennonite University made headlines this fall when it was revealed that workers at the CMU Farm, in collaboration with members of the Métis community, had successfully grown an ancient variety of squash from seeds shared with them by the White Earth Seed Library in Minnesota.

Aaron Epp | Canadian Mennonite University

November 23, 2015

Canadian MB Conference organizes ‘God, Sex and Church’ study event

Representatives of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches gathered for an Oct. 21-23 study conference to talk about something that is often avoided. “God,

Mennonite World Review staff

November 23, 2015

USA and Canada — alike yet different

In many ways, Americans and Canadians are so much alike. We watch the same movies and TV, read the same books, watch the same sports,

John Longhurst

November 10, 2015

Book review: ‘Between 2 Gods’

Trudy Harder Metzger is an author, speaker, trauma coach and survivor of long-standing patterns of abuse and incest — patterns inherent in some Old Colony

Katie Funk Wiebe

October 26, 2015

Growing together with refugees

I’ve been paying attention to Germany lately. And not just because my wife happens to be there visiting dear friends of ours who live in

Ryan Dueck

October 23, 2015

Engaging with the political system

With less than a week to go until the election, I’m going to try to summarize my general approach to faith and the political system.

Ryan Robinson

October 15, 2015

With grants, MCC assists displaced in Iraq, Syria

It’s been a year since Qasim left his home in Sinjar, Iraq. He was fleeing an advance by the Islamic State — the same advance that left tens of thousands of other Yazidis stranded in the mountains, trapped between hunger and dehydration and the threat of mass violence.

Qasim and his parents and three brothers, along with their wives and children, were able to get away from Sinjar, to a . . .

Emily Loewen | Mennonite Central Committee

September 14, 2015