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Five meditations on prayer by Kyle Penner
This month’s episodes of the Sunday@CMU radio program feature a series of meditations about prayer by Kyle Penner (CMU ’05).
“Sometimes it feels like we are tugged into too many directions and we’re not giving our best to the places that deserve our best,” says Kyle, who serves as the associate pastor at Grace Mennonite Church in Steinbach, MB. “This is one of those places where I have found prayer to be a practice that grounds me and helps me to be present to what matters most.”
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In solidarity with Standing Rock
Professor Jobb Arnold and I, along with our respective partners, recently travelled to Standing Rock Reservation, one hour south of Bismark, North Dakota, to offer our support for the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and to bear witness. We camped at one of three camps for the supporters. They called the supporters "water protectors" because one of their main concerns is the potential for harm to the Missouri river, as the pipeline is to pass under it.
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Jonathan Dyck: Better living through graphic design
Jonathan Dyck (CMU ’08) took an unlikely path on his way to becoming a graphic designer.
Before graduating from the three-year Design Studies program at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Dyck earned an undergraduate degree in English from CMU as well as a Master of Arts (English and Film Studies) from the University of Alberta.
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Research opportunity: environmental justice in India
Funded projects are available for two skilled and hard-working undergraduate students interested in conducting research on environmental justice in India, with a focus on development decisions affecting water resources.
The successful candidates will join an international SSHRC-funded project involving an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Canada and India.
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Johanna Tse: Making a difference in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Johanna Tse wasn’t sure what she wanted to do after she graduated from CMU with her Bachelor of Business Administration degree this past April, but she knew she wanted to make a difference.
A few weeks after moving to Vancouver in July, Tse landed a job at Mission Possible, a Christian humanitarian agency in the city’s Downtown Eastside district that works with people challenged by homelessness and poverty.
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