News

Meet our Table Talk host and moderator: Kim Penner

Kim Penner is an adjunct professor of Christian Ethics at Conrad Grebel University College and professor of ethics at University of Toronto. She lives in Kitchener, Ont. She will be the conference host and moderator for Table Talk 2020: Does the church still have legs?. 

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Waging Peace on Ministerial Misconduct and Abuse

This is a difficult season for our MCEC community of faith as incidents of harm caused by faith leaders have and are coming to light. Learning that faith leaders we respect and value have violated the sacred covenant of their ministry and harmed others, whether physically, emotionally or spiritually, is earthshaking. It challenges our own sense of reality as we re-interpret our experiences in light of what we now know.

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Encounters With The Divine

How have you experienced the divine in the everyday? How are we intentionally creating space for sacredness, for the divine, to have those deep and meaningful encounters within our living rooms?

My View From Here - an MCEC VLOG by Leah Reesor-Keller

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Mennonite Church Canada, MC USA and MWC respond to MCEC’s decision to terminate ministerial credentials of John D. Rempel

Mennonite Church Canada, Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite World Conference have received news from Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) of the termination of the ministerial credentials of John D. Rempel of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., due to ministerial sexual misconduct and ministerial misconduct.

As church bodies with which Rempel has worked closely over his career as pastor, professor and theologian, we grieve for the victim-survivors harmed by Rempel’s actions and honour their courage in coming forward. We recognize the injustice faced by those within our own faith communities that this news brings to light. We grieve also for our larger church Body, in which Rempel has found support and belonging.

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Thankful for Techs!

It’s Thanksgiving and today I’d like to say a big thank you to the folks who work so hard to make tech happen in congregations across MCEC. Thank you for the time that you've spent making sure that everyone is able to connect.

My View From Here - an MCEC VLOG by Leah Reesor-Keller

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