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Sunday@CMU: February 2023
Sunday, February 5, 2023 @ 12:00 AM
Vocation and God's Calling
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Renee Willms, Interim Director of CMU's Centre for Career and Vocation and Interim Director of Practicum at CMU. In this series of meditations, she reflects on vocation and God's calling in our lives.
Listen Now#myCMUlife: Asians in STEM: Honourable yet onerous work
Thursday, January 26, 2023 @ 8:37 AM
I remember being in grade one, sitting at the kitchen table doing my math homework with my sweet grandma, or "Khun Ya." Helping me in her lingual mosaic of Thai and English, we added and subtracted pencils, beads, and tamarind seeds. We snacked on pieces of fruit as we drew tallies and diagrams to practice my arithmetic after school.
I remember my grandpa, my "Khun Pu," a man of few words, who would eagerly sit counting trains with me and my sister as they rumbled by the window of my grandparents' seniors apartment. He taught me how to fold paper airplanes and boats, showing me how to achieve crisp, precise creases with the edge of my thumbnail. He emphasized to me that experts who designed these vessels for a living must also be very precise in their calculations and very smart.
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Continue ReadingSunday@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.
Listen Now#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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Continue ReadingSunday@CMU: December 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Advent is Not for the Faint of Heart
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Charlie Peronto, CMU's dean of student life. In this series of meditations, Charlie guides our journey through the Advent season as we wait for Jesus' birth.
Listen NowBringing 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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Continue ReadingSunday@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.
Listen NowSunday@CMU: October 2022
Sunday, October 9, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Lament and Praise in the Christian Life
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from CMU alumna Kim Stoesz. Kim is the pastor of community care at McIvor Church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation in Winnipeg. In this series of meditations, she reflects on lament and praise in the life of a Jesus follower.
Listen NowSunday@CMU: September 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: The Question of Christian Politics
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Paul Dyck, professor of English and academic dean at CMU. Throughout this rebroadcast of his meditation series, Paul explores Christianity and politics. Going beyond partisan politics, he examines God's coming kingdom and Christ's call to love.
Listen NowSunday@CMU: August 2022
Sunday, August 7, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: The Parables of the Prodigal Son
During the spring and summer, we are looking back on this year of Sunday@CMU. This month, we are rebroadcasting meditations by Aaron Thiessen, CMU alumnus and Pastor for Youth and Young Adults at River East Church in Winnipeg, MB. Throughout this series, Aaron examines the parable of the Prodigal Son from a different interpretation each week, allowing it to shake our expectations and see from a new perspective.
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