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The theme for this second week of Advent (Christmas) is peace. Once again just like the first theme of hope, if we expect to always be filled with this sentiment and nothing else, we are sure to be let down.

The four weekly themes of Advent (Christmas) are hope, peace, joy, and love. If we expect to always be filled with those four sentiments and nothing else, we are sure to be let down.

With all these waves of a pandemic, isn’t it nice to have some anchors in the boat? Recently, I heard someone refer to museums such as the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) as an anchor institution.

Jacob Harms Cornelsen of Rosenort, Manitoba enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on April 1, 1916, at seventeen years old.

Maps have many purposes. Here’s one you may have not thought of, as shared by Czech poet Miroslav Holub.

Count me among the odd, but I love cemeteries. These sacred places hold within them a treasure trove of stories.

Plautdietsch (Low German) sounds like a fun language. I don’t speak it, but when I hear it, I do sense a lightheartedness to it.

I remember a time when we were innocent. COVID-19 was just beginning, and we all didn’t know what to think or expect. We were ready to do our part.

At the Mennonite Heritage Village we have a lot to be thankful.

On March 8, 1922, the first train carrying Mennonites arrived in San Antonio de las Arenales (later Cuauhtémoc), Chihuahua from Canada, a country these immigrants felt had betrayed them.