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Announcing the P.M. Friesen Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 @ 12:17 PM
Edwin and Agnes Redekopp of Winnipeg have gifted CMU with a $2,000,000 endowment, to create the P.M. Friesen Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies (BTS).
The Edwin and Agnes Redekopp Endowment Fund will support permanent financing for a position at CMU that ensures the ongoing strength of BTS excellence in teaching, research, and service—particularly in ways that provide service to the Mennonite Brethren (MB) church tradition and draw on its witness.
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories with Dr. Stephanie Stobbe (video)
Thursday, October 31, 2024 @ 5:32 PM
Lecture Title: Hope and Resilience - Ways of Understanding Refugee Stories
Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies
This is the second in a series of three lectures for CMU's 2024/25 first-year course, Ways of Knowing 1 (WK1). In this collaboratively taught course, students work with faculty in seminar settings, roundtable discussions, and public lectures to engage the central question chosen by faculty—what are people for? WK1 invites students into the heart of CMU, involving them in an interdisciplinary, cohort-based class that gets faculty and students thinking theologically together about an issue of current concern, across disciplinary edges.
Read More#myCMUlife | How CMU made me enjoy living in Winnipeg
Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 6:31 PM
Growing up in Winnipeg, I always thought I would leave this wintery plain the moment I turned 18. University seemed like the kind of thing you had to move away from Winnipeg for, to have a good experience like you see in the movies. I had visited other universities around Winnipeg and had seen the thousands of students rushing around the overwhelmingly large and at times not-so-aesthetically-pleasing campuses, running to catch busses in the freezing cold. I thought, "Yeah, I might take my business elsewhere."
Then I ended up at CMU by chance for a high school internship. The internship itself taught me so much and gave me the opportunity to work with a publishing company at 17 years old, but I was also enchanted by the architecture of the old castle building and the tiny classrooms compared to large lecture halls of other universities. This learning experience seemed to promise a more one-on-one approach.
I grew up in the North End of Winnipeg, which I found difficult for a plethora of reasons. When I moved to northern Manitoba, I made a promise to myself that when I moved again, I would never move back to Winnipeg. If you've ever seen the movie Lady Bird, I had sort of the same melodramatic line of thinking as the main character. As she says in the film, "I want to go to the east coast. I want to go where culture is."
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Read More2024 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series featuring (videos)
Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 4:18 PM
Featuring Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh,
James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at Regent College, Vancouver, BC
These lectures explore the spiritual theology of early evangelicalism by looking at three questions that were of great importance to the movement in its origins:
Read MoreSunday@CMU: October 2024
Sunday, October 6, 2024 @ 12:00 AM
With Gratitude 2024
This month on Sunday@CMU, we're featuring student sharing from a CMU event called With Gratitude, which took place this past April. At With Gratitude, graduating students reflect on their journeys through CMU and express what their studies have meant to them, through words and music.
Read MoreWays of Knowing 1 Lecture Series | 'Science and Hope' with Dr. Candice Viddal (video)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 @ 3:59 PM
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Sunday@CMU: September 2024
Sunday, September 1, 2024 @ 12:00 AM
A Theology of Communications
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are kicking off the academic year with a new series from David Balzer, Associate Professor of Communications and Media at CMU. In these meditations, he delves into some key points of a theology of communications, considering how we might develop a biblical response to our unique technological era.
Read MoreCMU professor receives federal funds to study cultural, religious differences in family caregiving (WFP)
Friday, August 16, 2024 @ 11:15 AM
In 2018, more than 375,000 Manitobans spent 230 million hours looking after ill or aging family members—care worth $3.9 billion.
That same year, about one in four Canadians, or 7.8 million people, provided care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, a physical or mental disability or problems related to aging.
Those figures, the most recently available, come from Statistics Canada General Social Survey on Caregiving and Care. And over the next five years, they will form the background to new research by Canadian Mennonite University Prof. Heather Campbell-Enns.
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Read MoreSunday@CMU: August 2024
Sunday, August 11, 2024 @ 12:00 AM
Seasonal Reflections on Food, Faith, and Land
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting reflections from Kenton Lobe, Teaching Assistant Professor of International Development and Environmental Studies at CMU. In addition to teaching part-time, Kenton runs a small community shared agriculture farm in Neubergthal, Manitoba. Throughout this series, he explores the relationship between food, faith, and land.
Read MoreCMU professor awarded prestigious Canada Research Chair
Thursday, August 8, 2024 @ 10:40 AM
Dr. Heather Campbell-Enns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 in Families and Aging.
This is the first time CMU has received a CRC award, which will contribute $120,000 to the university annually over a period of five years, for a total of $600,000 in funding.
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