Keyword: Faith

Sunday@CMU: April 2024

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.

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Sunday@CMU: April 2023

Theme: Reflections on Food, Faith, Land

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing 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. In this new series of meditations, he offers reflections on food, faith, and land.

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Climate: Science and Faith

How does Christian faith inform climate action? Climate researcher Dr. Katharine Hayhoe discusses the connections between faith and science as CMU's 2017 Scientist In Residence.

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Words that bear repeating: chapel attendance up as CMU embraces liturgy

Thanks to a shift in approach, Tuesday all-campus worship gatherings at CMU are attracting a better, more consistent turnout from the student body. What's different? Spiritual Life Facilitator Danielle Morton says that incorporating liturgy has brought much-needed stillness, rest, and intimacy back to a campus worship routine that was not drawing attendance as it once had.

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Scripture and science: Biology professor explores evolution

Dr. Dennis R. Venema travels across the country engaging in conversations about how evolution and Christian faith can co-exist. While, as an Evangelical Christian, he grew up convinced that belief in evolution meant being an unfaithful, his views have shifted significantly over time.

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2019 CMU Scientist in Residence | Dr. Dennis R. Venema (videos)

Dr. Dennis R. Venema (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Biology at Trinity Western University (Langley, British Columbia, Canada). He is co-author, with theologian Scot McKnight, of Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science (Brazos, 2017).

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CMU welcomes Dr. Dennis R. Venema as 2019's Scientist in Residence

Were Adam and Eve humanity's first parents? Genetics show that our beginning comes from a population much larger than one couple. Can belief in evolution and Christianity mix?

These are some of the key questions Dr. Dennis R. Venema will address as Scientist in Residence at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) on February 4-6, 2019.

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