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Church Matters hosts Janet Plenert and Dan Dyck explore why the church matters in the world today. Each episode features a guest or guests who tell stories from their own experiences about why the church matters in the world today. Primary Format : Christian Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Winnipeg State/Province : MB User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Grant Klassen Podcasts Methings.com listings of Grant Klassen Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Grant Klassen Episode 26: Broken Promise: A Conscientious Objector and his 60 Year-Old Secret Gordon Toombs had the best intentions. He wanted to stay faithful to his belief that Jesus taught all his followers to be non-violent peacemakers. When the Canadian government conscripted him for World War in 1941, they promised he could serve as a medic by declaring himself a conscientious objector (CO). That promise was broken. Gordon felt he had betrayed his deeply held beliefs - and kept his failed CO declaration a secret for 60 years. This is his story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 27: Rebuilding Trust between the Church and Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Canada’s indigenous peoples have had a rocky relationship with the Christian church. Can this relationship be healed, and if so, what can the ordinary person contribute to the healing? In this episode, we explore the topic with Anita Keith. Anita is a Christian of Mohawk, Algonquin and British descent. She is an Ordained Minister, an instructor of Aboriginal Education at Red River College in Winnipeg, and an Administrator for the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 28: Food Security and the Church What does it mean to have food security, what does the Bible have to say to us about food security, and what does the church have to do with food security? Join Church Matters and guest Stefan Epp, Food Policy Analyst with the Manitoba Food Charter, as we explore what food security and the church mean in both local and international contexts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 25: Church and State: How Do We Live Together? Church and state: How can we create space for meaningful interaction? How should the church call governing leaders to accountability, and how can we do this fruitfully? And how can the church be faithful in its relations with the state? This episode’s guest, Reverend Doctor Karen Hamilton, General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, helps explore this topic as Canada prepares to host the G8 leaders as well as a G8 Religious Leaders Summit. What can the church do to hold leaders ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 24: Being the Church in Challenging Economic Times When the news is full of stories about devalued pension plans and retirement savings, even God’s people can be tempted to make ethically questionable investments that promise temptingly high returns. What is the role of the church in tough economic times? Gary Hawton, CEO of Meritas, a socially responsible investment firm, has some words of wisdom for jittery Christians in times such as these. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 23: Jesus? Understanding how we know what we know, and what this means for the church - Part Two The many recent books on the market indicate a strong, renewed interest in Jesus. Some works tackle Jesus as a highly moral man with some good teachings, others interpret Jesus as a divine messenger from God. Authors use research from historical documents, scholarly works, and archaeological information. This episode explores how we know what we know about Jesus, and what this means for the church. Guest: Tom Yoder Neufeld, associate professor of Religious Studies at Conrad Grebel Universi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 18: The decade to overcome violence The Decade to Overcome Violence will end in 2011. What progress has been made so far? Guest Fernando Enns, a Mennonite, first proposed this idea to the World Council of Churches. Aired on July 20, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 20: The Church's Call to Generosity Part 1 Guest: Don Rempel-Boschman. This episode is part 1 of a two part series on the Church's call to generosity. Don talks about how his congregation seeks to be faithful as they balance the vast need in the world with the passions of people in the congregation. Aired on September 21, 2008 Note: Episode 19 was a repeat broadcast of Episode 5 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 21: The Church's Call to Generosity Part 2 Guest: Don Rempel-Boschman. This episode is part 2 of a two part series on the Church's call to generosity. Don talks about how his congregation seeks to be faithful as they balance the vast need in the world with the passions of people in the congregation. Aired on October 19, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 22: Jesus?: Understanding how we know what we know, and what this means for the church - Part One Part 1 of a two part series The many recent books on the market indicate a strong, renewed interest in Jesus. Some works tackle Jesus as a highly moral man with some good teachings, others interpret Jesus as a divine messenger from God. Authors use research from historical documents, scholarly works, and archaeological information. This episode explores how we know what we know about Jesus, and what this means for the church. Guest: Tom Yoder Neufeld, associate professor of Religious Studie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 17: The surviving Mennonite Church in Ukraine Russian Mennonites have a lengthy ancestral history with Ukraine. As part of a long migration through Eastern Europe, many Mennonites of ethnic Germanic origin sojourned there for up to 150 years, with approximately 50,000 emigrating to Canada between 1870 and 1950 to escape disagreeable government policies, and Bolshevik Revolution during the 1920s. Today, Canadian Mennonites still relate to people in Ukraine, most often through church-based connections. Anna Alipova, is a Church Council m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 15: Jesus the Way Maker Jesus the Way Maker Guest: Richard Twiss Richard Twiss is a Rosebud Lakota theologian from Vancouver, Washington, the co-founder of Wiconi International, the author of One Church, Many Tribes (Regal Books, 2000), and a Doctor of Missiology candidate at Asbury Theological Seminary. His ministry encourages Indigenous people from North America and around the world to use appropriate aspects of their cultural traditions for expressing Christ-centred theology. Using the lense of biblical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 16: Healing and Hope in the event of a pandemic Healing and Hope in the event of a pandemic Guests representing public health practitioners, spiritual care specialists, emergency preparedness planners, and disaster recovery experts talk about the church's role in the event of a pandemic. Aired on May 17, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 13: Does the Church Matter Beyond the Congregational Level? Does the Church Matter Beyond the Congregational Level? Do Regional Churches, National Churches or Denominations Matter? Guest: Pam Peters-Pries, Executive Secretary, Support Services, MC Canada For a congregation to carry out God's work in the world, it is necessary to gather. The same is true for wider levels of the organized church - including the denomination (Acts 11: 25-26). Peters-Pries says, "We would never expect the local church to be effective in carrying out God's mission i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 14: Making your Church Matter in your Neighbourhood Making your Church Matter in your Neighbourhood Guest: Rudy Dirks, Pastor Heavy metal music at a funeral in a Mennonite Church? When an un-churched young man in Rudy's community died suddenly and tragically, the victim's family approached Rudy and his congregation to host the funeral. Since then, some amazing things have happened. Aired on March 16, 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 1: Why Does the Church Matter in the World? Jack Suderman, General Secretary, Mennonite Church Canada introduces the series with his reflections on Why Church Matters. This program aired on February 18, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 2: Does Church Matter in Uruguay? Karen Schellenberg is the Pastor at the Portage Mennonite Church in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Karen reflects on a recent visit to Mennonites/Anabaptists in Uruguay, a reunion with her IMPaCT (International Mennonite Pastors Coming Together) pastor partner there, why and how the church matters in this country and for these people, and tells the moving story of Rodriguez, a Montevideo homeless man taken in by a local congregation. This program aired on March 18, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 3: Young Adults and the Global Church Sarah Thompson, 23 year-old Fulbright scholar, speaks out about young adults and the church, her role with the Mennonite World Conference Amigos program and its Global Youth Summit in 2009, and the global church. Sarah reveals where young adults are at in their love-hate relationship with the church, how the church can better respond and retain young adults, and reflects on her perspective of the global church. This program aired on April 15, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 4: The Church and Creation Care Does the church really have something to say about creation care? David Neufeld holds a PhD in Environmental Planning and represents the Mennonite Creation Care Network a bi-national body "...actively engaged in the care and restoration of God's creation." Neufeld explains why and how the church as a body of Christ can have an impact on care for God's creation. This program aired on May 20, 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5: Militarization, Canada and the Church For the first time since the Korean war in the 1950s, Canada is involved in a direct combat role - this time in Afghanistan. Military advertisements, recruiting, military funding, and news reporting on Canada's military role have significantly increased in recent years. Mennonite Church Canada has sent a letter to the Prime Minister advocating for a legal option that would allow taxpayers to direct their portion of military taxes toward peace initiatives. What else can and should a pea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website