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From basketball star to keeper of stories: CMU alum brings Mennonite history to life
Thursday, August 28, 2025 @ 8:06 AM
Andrew Klassen Brown makes working in archives sound as exciting as an experimental jet test pilot.
The 32-year-old CMU alum works as the Archivist and Records Manager with Mennonite Central Committee Canada, serves as the vice-president of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, and spends his free time visiting secluded attractions important to Mennonite history, such as the Mennonite Memorial Landing Site on the Banks of the Red River near Ste. Agathe, MB.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: April 2024
Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 12:00 AM
Thirsting for Faith, Quenching Doubt: Stories of Water in Life and Scripture
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing a series from CMU's Residence Director, Mackenzie Nicolle. In her reflections, she explores stories from the Bible and her own life in which water, faith, and doubt weave together.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: November 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023 @ 12:00 AM
Vocation and God's Calling
Featuring stories from Still Speaking, an audio project of the Mennonite Heritage Archives
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're hearing from Renee Willms, Dean of Student Life at CMU. Prior to this role, Renee worked at CMU as the Director of the Centre for Career and Vocation and the Director of Practicum. Throughout this rebroadcast of her meditation series, she reflects on vocation and God's calling in our lives.
Sunday@CMU: October 2023
Sunday, October 8, 2023 @ 12:00 AM
With Gratitude 2023
Featuring stories from Still Speaking, an audio project of the Mennonite Heritage Archives
Read MoreMennonite Heritage Archives part of groundbreaking storytelling project
Thursday, November 12, 2020 @ 1:25 PM
When we think of preserving history in archives, our first thoughts might be of digging through boxes of grandma's things in the attic or leafing through yellowing photo albums. But that is not the whole picture.
The Mennonite Heritage Archives (MHA), located on CMU's campus and supported by CMU, is calling on Mennonites and Anabaptists to share their experiences during the remarkable historical, biological, and social events of 2020 as part of Anabaptist History Today (AHT), a groundbreaking collaborative storytelling project.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: October 2020
Sunday, October 4, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Stories from the Mennonite Heritage Archives
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Conrad Stoesz. He will be sharing stories that have been preserved in documents and artifacts in the archives, which he also presents on his radio segment, Still Speaking. Conrad is the archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Archives, affiliated with CMU, where he has worked since 1999. He is also an alumnus of Canadian Mennonite Bible College, one of CMU's predecessor colleges.
Read MoreMennonite Heritage Centre Archives & Gallery to continue under new structure
Monday, January 9, 2017 @ 11:09 AM
Joint News Release by:
Mennonite Church Canada,
Canadian Mennonite University
Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
The Mennonite Heritage Centre including its Archive and Art Gallery programs, is being reorganized under a new partnership and name.
Discussions over the last months between Mennonite Church Canada (MC Canada), Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), and the Center for Transnational Mennonite Studies (CTMS) at the University of Winnipeg culminated in a proposal for CMU to assume full ownership of the Mennonite Heritage Centre building, and programming of the faith-based Art Gallery, while the archives will be managed and funded by a three-way partnership of MC Canada, CMU, and CTMS. CTMS is a partnership between the University of Winnipeg's Chair in Mennonite Studies and the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation Inc.
Read MoreSunday@CMU Archives: 2010-2016
Saturday, December 31, 2016 @ 12:00 PM
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