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Sunday@CMU: January 2023
Sunday, January 1, 2023 @ 12:00 AM
Reflections on Five Parables of Jesus
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from CMU alumnus Kenny Wollmann, a teacher and member of Baker Hutterite Community. In this series of meditations, he reflects on what Jesus' parables tell us about the Kingdom of God, in keeping with the Hutterite liturgical tradition of studying the gospel stories of Jesus' life and ministry in the season between Epiphany and Easter.
Read More#myCMUlife: “It’s the people that make you feel at home”
Thursday, December 22, 2022 @ 10:20 AM
I was always a quiet kid—quite aloof, utterly idealistic. My time was primarily spent wandering in my own head rather than engaging with the Big Wide World outside the closed doors. So it was no surprise that the idea of me spending my high school years abroad shocked my parents, even more so since I initiated it.
Studying abroad is inarguably a risky financial investment with the hope of securing a better future somewhere else far from home, but in the mind of a 13-year-old, the whole concept was stripped down to "travelling to Neverland" to see with my own eyes what is ever and what is never.
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Read MoreCMU student's award-winning speech encourages us to live with “an attitude of abundance”
Thursday, December 8, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
"The kingdom of God [that Jesus] preached about was one of banquets. It is a kingdom that starts with faith the size of a mustard seed and grows like yeast mixed with flour. You are invited; come and join the feast."
So says current Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student Danika Warkentin in her award-winning speech titled, "Join the Feast."
Read MoreBringing CMU choruses ‘Bach’ together this festive season
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 @ 8:48 AM
The Canadian Mennonite University Festival Chorus presents J.S. Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio, Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 — a musical telling of the nativity story and the major feast days celebrated as part of the 12 days of Christmas.
"This oratorio is, in fact, six cantatas in one," says Dr. Janet Brenneman, Associate Professor of Music and conductor of the performance. "You get the whole Christmas story."
Assembled in 1734, Bach's Nativity-to-Epiphany cycle draws on pre-existing sources — including three secular cantatas — and was composed as part of his duties for two Leipzig churches, St. Thomas and St. Nicholas.
"Performing Bach is a breath of fresh air," says tenor soloist and CMU alumnus Nolan Kehler. A versatile and varied singer, the music also marks a return to his roots in more ways than one.
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Read MoreCMU biology major co-authors paper published in landmark science journal
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 @ 4:44 PM
Levi Klassen's (CMU '22) second week working at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) changed abruptly and without warning, pitching him into an expedited project running from May to November researching and analyzing treatments for the recent outbreak of mpox (the disease formerly known as monkeypox).
A summer of what he thought would be spent organizing files and aiding with odd jobs relating to research ended up leading to publishing a report in the landmark journal Science Translational Medicine in November. Because of his valuable contributions, Klassen, in affiliation with Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), received co-first authorship on the report.
Read MoreFaculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Sunder John Boopalan
Thursday, November 17, 2022 @ 4:33 PM
Dr. Sunder John Boopalan, Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, has taught at CMU since 2020.
Where or how do students give you hope?
I got into this business precisely because of that. Every day, students give me hope. Sometimes stuff happens in the classroom—I call it a change in plot. You walk in and you think, I know how the story is going to play out...and what I think we sometimes take for granted is that actually a person's place in the story can change the plot of the story. I think that's the place where students give me the most hope, because each of those persons sitting there with me in the classroom can change the outcome of the conversation. That open-ended plot of any interpersonal encounter gives me the greatest hope, and students do that all the time.
Read MoreTwo CMU alumni prove the value of creative veterinary care
Monday, November 14, 2022 @ 10:51 AM
The first veterinary college was created in response to a cattle plague decimating southern France in the middle of the 18th century. Though microbiology had not yet been established as a concrete area of study, the first veterinary scientists worked tirelessly in search of a remedy, and within a few years, the plague was controlled, the cattle population was revived, and France resumed economic stability.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: November 2022
Sunday, November 6, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Taste and See that the Lord is Good
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Sunder John Boopalan, assistant professor of biblical and theological studies at CMU. Throughout this rebroadcast of his meditation series, John explores the Psalmist's words, "O taste and see that the Lord is good," which guided the CMU community's work and worship last year.
Read More2022 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series - Picturing the Bible: How Artists Tell the Story (videos)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 @ 5:35 PM
Contrary to what is often assumed, both Christians and Jews made pictorial art for their worship spaces no later than the early second century CE and have continued to do so through history. From the first, these artworks were never simply decorative but drew upon stories from both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. As such, they served and still serve an exegetical and even theological purpose and not simply an illustrative one.
Read MoreNaawi-Oodena: A Town Hall Conversation
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Something new and exciting is developing in the neighbourhood very close to Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). The area will soon be home to the largest, strategically located urban Indigenous economic zone in Canada and the biggest multi-use project in modern Winnipeg history.
The public is invited to gather and learn more at the university's upcoming Face2Face event, "Naawi-Oodena: A Town Hall Conversation" on Saturday, September 24 at 7:00 PM.
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