Short stuff

A new worship music web page at Mennonite Church Manitoba invites Mennonite musicians to create and share their compositions with a wider audience.

—Canadian Mennonite

Rudy Wiebe, 72, won this year’s Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, worth $25,000, for his memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. Wiebe, a member of Lendrum MB Church, Edmonton, is also a two-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award for English-language fiction.

—Globe and Mail

DE BRIGJ 105.9 FM (The Bridge), Canada’s first and only Low German language radio station, provides programming in the Aylmer, Ont. area. MCC Ontario has been involved in the venture to reduce the sense of isolation Low German newcomers, who lack English language skills, often feel.

—MCC News

“I’m okay! Honest.” Prolific author and Christianity Today columnist Philip Yancey was seriously injured in an automobile accident Feb. 25, but his prospects for recovery, he says, look good.

—Evangelical Press News

The Anabaptist Network, a new initiative seeking to connect Anabaptist-oriented persons across social, geographic, economic, and generational divides, has debuted as a group on Facebook. To join, contact The Anabaptist Network.

—release

Need a second opinion (besides Oprah’s positive push) about The Secret? See Regent College professor John Stackhouse’s evaluation of the book/DVD phenomenon on his blog. The Secret is “a stew of the good and the bad,” he writes; “the good is genuinely nourishing, while the bad is genuinely toxic.”