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2022 CSOP Lecture Series - Choosing Love in the Wake of Wounding (videos)
Thursday, June 16, 2022 @ 10:00 PM
View Details2022 CSOP Lecture: "Choosing Love in the Wake of Wounding"
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 @ 10:45 AM
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) will host its annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) lecture on June 16 at 7:30 PM in Marpeck Commons. Acclaimed professor, activist, and thought-leader Dr. Johonna McCants-Turner will give this year's public lecture.
Presenting "Choosing Love in the Wake of Wounding," McCants-Turner will be discussing how women of colour and practitioners in the transformative justice movement respond to violence by creating space for healing and accountability without punishment.
Continue Reading2022 John and Margaret Friesen Lecture Series "Reading Mennonite Writing Now" (videos)
Friday, March 4, 2022 @ 10:19 AM
View Details2021 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series - Mediation and the Immediate God (videos)
Thursday, October 28, 2021 @ 2:10 PM
View Details2020 CSOP Lecture - The Myth of Religious Violence
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 @ 8:56 PM
View DetailsAnnouncing the 2020 John and Margaret Friesen Lectures: What if Mennonites Had Never Left the Netherlands?
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 @ 3:53 PM
What if the 16th-century Dutch and North-German ancestors of so many North American Mennonites had decided not to flee their homes? What if they had not scattered, and not been variously shaped by atrocities like those of tsarist Russian tyranny, communist revolution, or Nazi war? What would Mennonites be like today if they had never left the Netherlands?
Continue ReadingAstrophysicist is CMU’s 2020 Scientist in Residence
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Dr. Deborah Haarsma (PhD) is no stranger to frontier work. She has studied galaxy clusters, the curvature of space, and the expansion of the universe using telescopes around the world and in orbit. Privately, her research in astrophysics takes her to the very edge of human knowledge and comprehension.
Continue ReadingRev'd Dr. David Widdicombe Lecture (video)
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 @ 7:54 PM
View Details2019 J.J. Thiessen Lectures with Dr. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford (videos)
Thursday, October 24, 2019 @ 10:59 AM
View DetailsTheology for a Climate Emergency: CMU to host public lecture by Rev'd Dr. David Widdicombe
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 @ 1:28 PM
What theological tools do we really have, for thinking about a climate crisis? What responsibilities do individual churches have amidst the current emergency? What historical Christian perspectives might we be able to retrieve, in order to resist certain dominant scientific or technological assumptions of our time?
These are the seminal questions in Rev'd Dr. David Widdicombe's upcoming lecture "And His Hands Prepared the Dry Land: A Political Theology of Climate Change." Scheduled for Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 PM, the lecture will be held at Marpeck Commons (2299 Grant Ave.) and feature a dedicated academic response from CMU's Professor of New Testament, Gordon Zerbe, to fuel discussion. Celebrated local musician and activist, Steve Bell, will also feature.
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