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2019 CMU PAX Award Presentation to Rudy Wiebe (video)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 @ 12:58 PM
Rudy Wiebe, is best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of Indigenous people. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and A Discovery of Strangers (1994) and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006).
Read MoreSunday@CMU: April 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: If We Walk in the Light
Speaker: John Brubacher
Dr. John Brubacher, Assistant Professor of Biology, presents a four-part sermon series exploring 1 John 1:5-7.
Read MoreClarinetist wins 2019 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 @ 6:45 AM
A clarinetist from Manitoba is the winner of the 14th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).
Stephanie Wilson's performance earned her first place and the $700 prize that comes with it on Wednesday, March 20. She is the first clarinetist to ever win the competition.
Read MoreMusic Therapy degree opens worlds of opportunity for graduate
Monday, April 1, 2019 @ 11:18 AM
Rebekah Miller sees the effects of music's transformative power in countless different ways every week. No two days on the job are ever alike for the music therapist and educator.
"One day I'm working with two-year olds and then the next I'm working with 102-year olds," says Miller, who graduated from CMU with a Bachelor of Music Therapy in 2018. "What I love the most about my work right now is the diversity. I love working with different age groups and having different goals."
Read MoreCanadian Mennonite University signs MOU with Filipino peacebuilding institute
Friday, March 29, 2019 @ 12:00 PM
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) has entered into a collaboration agreement through a memorandum of understanding with the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute Foundation, Inc. (MPI). The memo states the intention of cooperation for collaboration on mutually beneficial grant opportunities, curriculum development, and activities for the advancement of programming between the two entities.
Read MoreNew book from CMU Press explores history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate
Monday, March 25, 2019 @ 8:00 AM
A new book published by the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Press presents a detailed account of the history of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, a private Mennonite high school in Winnipeg.
Necessary Idealism: A History of Westgate Mennonite Collegiate is written by Dr. Janis Thiessen, Associate Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg.
Read MoreCMU to honour writer Rudy Wiebe with 2019 PAX Award
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 @ 9:19 AM
Renowned writer Rudy Wiebe will receive the 2019 Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) PAX Award.
CMU President Dr. Cheryl Pauls will present the award to Wiebe on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at Spring at CMU, an annual fundraiser in support of the university.
Read MoreUpcoming public lecture to explore Anabaptism in Guatemala
Monday, March 11, 2019 @ 9:00 AM
"How do we live as a transnational Mennonite community when some within the community are implicated in the harm done to others? How do we live out the authentic witness of early Anabaptism?" These are some of the questions Dr. Patricia Harms will raise at the 2019 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).
Read MoreCSOP Participant Profile: Carol McNaughton
Thursday, March 7, 2019 @ 4:53 PM
Carol McNaughton spent a semester in South Africa with Outtatown, Canadian Mennonite University's (CMU) discipleship program, and has dedicated herself to peacebuilding ever since.
"I did Outtatown right after high school and that kind of sucked me into the Mennonite world I would say." She began working at Camp Valaqua, a Mennonite camp in Alberta, and participated in Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) programs like Serving and Learning Together, where she spent a year in Cambodia. The 25-year-old now works full-time as the Peace Program Coordinator at MCC Alberta.
It was on Outtatown that McNaughton first heard about the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP). She took a course shortly afterwards and enjoyed it so much that she returned for more.
This past June she took the CSOP class "Who is my Neighbour? Ethics in a Bordered World" with Roger Epp, Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. "I've really enjoyed it," she says. She's excited to dig further into what they discussed, like the question of who your neighbour is and how to approach ethics if everyone is your neighbour, not just the person who lives next door.
"I chose this course because it felt like it was more out of my comfort zone in some ways ... this one was more new to me," says McNaughton, who has a degree from the University of Calgary in Social Work with a minor in Dance. It was also the themes of neighbours and borders that drew her to the course, as her trip to Israel Palestine two weeks earlier on an MCC learning tour had left the image of the wall cutting through Israel Palestine sharp in her memory.
McNaughton had visited once before, but as a tourist. "I spent most of my time in Israel, [I] hadn't been to Palestine really," she says. "It was intense both physically and emotionally to hear those stories but also energizing and inspiring to hear directly from people who are working toward peace and justice."
A lot of things from the CSOP will stay with McNaughton, but one sticks out in particular. "People at CSOP come from all over the world. That is really the amazing thing about CSOP, is you meet up in a classroom with those different perspectives," she says.
"Just having that inspiration of having a community of peacebuilders that, even when it doesn't seem practical in some ways, are still committed that we have to keep caring and we have to keep working through these things to best love our neighbours."
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Read MoreFaculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Karl Koop
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 @ 1:42 PM
Dr. Karl Koop, Professor of History and Theology and Director of the Graduate School of Theology and Ministry, has taught at CMU full-time since 2002.
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