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MSC professor awarded grant to continue community meth response training
Dr. Jobb Arnold, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University's Menno Simons College (MSC), has received a grant of $5,000 from the City of Winnipeg's inaugural Community Safety and Crime Prevention program.
Winnipeg is experiencing a methamphetamine (meth) crisis of proportions larger than the city has ever seen, and Arnold is tackling the issue head-on. He developed a community meth response training resource and ran the first sessions with it over the fall of 2019 for organizations like the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and some of the city's crisis social workers.
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CMU students express gratitude to donors, churches, and Manitoba Government on Tuition Freedom Day
The library is full, the hallways are buzzing, and another busy academic year at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is well on its way. And it is thanks to the generosity of donors, churches, and the Manitoba Government that any of this is possible.
On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 11:30 AM in CMU's Chapel (600 Shaftesbury Blvd.), CMU students and community will celebrate those who support their education with Tuition Freedom Day.
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This Thirsty Land: CMU Festival Chorus and Mennonite Community Orchestra in performance
On Saturday November 2, the newly formed CMU Festival Chorus and resident Mennonite Community Orchestra will join forces, along with student and faculty soloists, to present This Thirsty Land, a bill of masterworks reanimated for the present moment.
Directed by CMU's Janet Brenneman (PhD), and grafted into the roots of the former Mennonite Festival Chorus, the CMU Festival Chorus brings together three distinct ensembles under the university umbrella, comprising current students, alumni, and community members. Still in its inaugural season, the choir has already worked with several distinguished WSO directors, performing definitive repertoire by Mozart, Britten, Handel, Beethoven, Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Silvestrov, and Pärt.
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Theology for a Climate Emergency: CMU to host public lecture by Rev'd Dr. David Widdicombe
What theological tools do we really have, for thinking about a climate crisis? What responsibilities do individual churches have amidst the current emergency? What historical Christian perspectives might we be able to retrieve, in order to resist certain dominant scientific or technological assumptions of our time?
These are the seminal questions in Rev'd Dr. David Widdicombe's upcoming lecture "And His Hands Prepared the Dry Land: A Political Theology of Climate Change." Scheduled for Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 PM, the lecture will be held at Marpeck Commons (2299 Grant Ave.) and feature a dedicated academic response from CMU's Professor of New Testament, Gordon Zerbe, to fuel discussion. Celebrated local musician and activist, Steve Bell, will also feature.
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CMU recognizes distinguished alumni with 2019 awards
A former teacher dedicated to building relationships with Indigenous peoples, a former witness worker invested in intercultural relationships, a long-time pursuer of justice with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), and a priest and canon theologian in the Anglican church are the recipients of Canadian Mennonite University's (CMU) 2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards.
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