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Statement regarding the joint CMU/MB Seminary program
Dear students in the joint CMU/MB Seminary program,
You likely have heard that for reasons of financial exigency MB Seminary (MBS) informed CMU this spring of the Seminary's decision to withdraw from the Affiliation Agreement between MB Seminary and CMU and to do so by May 31, 2021. In withdrawing from this Agreement, MB Seminary will cease to invest in 1.5 faculty positions at CMU, those of Andrew Dyck (1.0) and Pierre Gilbert (0.5; Gilbert 's other half position always has been connected only to CMU and is not affected by the MBS change).
CMU announces the 2020 Leadership Scholarship winners
Elizabeth Connelly, Hillary Jorgensen, Katrina Lengsavath, and Danika Warkentin are the recipients of this year's endowments: $3,500 annually up to four years, to a maximum value of $14,000 each.
CMU takes great pride in announcing the four winners of this year's Leadership Scholarships: Elizabeth Connelly of St. Bruno, SK (homeschooled); Hillary Jorgensen of Morris, MB (Morris School, K-12); Katrina Lengsavath of Winnipeg, MB (Gordon Bell High School); and Danika Warkentin of Pincher Creek, AB (St. Michael's Catholic School, K-12) are the winners of up to $14,000 each.
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CMU welcomes political theology specialist Rev. Dr. John Boopalan to the BTS faculty
Toting a powerful academic record, global life-experience and perspective, along with a rich and multifaceted theological background, CMU looks forward to the teaching and mentorship Rev. Dr. John Boopalan will bring to our learning community.
CMU is proud to announce a new appointment in the faculty of Biblical and Theological Studies. Sunder John Boopalan (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is an interdisciplinary writer and researcher specializing in the areas of political theologies and ethics, with personal emphases in the areas of Dalit Christianity and redress of structural or systemic wrongdoing. He is also an ordained minister in the Progressive Baptist tradition.
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Announcing the CMU 2020 High School Essay Contest Results
CMU is pleased to announce the winners of this year's High School Essay Contest: in order of placement, congratulations to Emily Katsman (Grade 11) of Shaftesbury High School, Grace Gong (Grade 12) of Erindale Secondary School, and Katrina Lengsavath (Grade 12) of Gordon Bell High School.
Contestants were asked to respond formally, in a roughly 1000 word essay, to one of the following three questions:
Continue ReadingGod of all mercy and consolation, come to the help of your people
I'm Anna Nekola, a Professor of Music at CMU. I'm from south Minneapolis and I have been worshipping for several years (and this spring via Zoom) with my family's congregation at Calvary Lutheran Church at 39th and Chicago, one short block from where George Floyd was murdered. This has been a hard week, watching my home community devastated by yet another brutal act of police brutality. Minneapolis, a northern city where racism has at times been more covert and insidious than in other parts of the US, can no longer deny the inequalities and oppression that are a long part of its history.
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