Keyword: Lent
Sunday@CMU: March 2025
Images for the Christian Life
This month on Sunday@CMU, we hear from Sue Sorensen, Professor of English at CMU. She is also Director of CMU Press and a novelist and poet. Her series of meditations for this Lenten season contemplates images that help us conceive of our relationship with Christ.
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Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections
This month on Sunday@CMU, we hear from Chris Huebner, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at CMU. As we prepare to observe Lent next month, Chris will get us thinking about this season in the church calendar with excerpts from his book, Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: March 2024
Living in Hope
The month of March this year spans the Lenten season in the Christian church. Lent is the 40-day period of reflection and preparation that leads up to Easter and commemorates Jesus' 40 days of fasting in the desert. On Sunday@CMU, we're hearing meditations from Karl Koop, Professor of History and Theology at CMU. His series guides us as we journey towards Jesus' death and resurrection.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: March 2023
Suffering the Truth: Lenten Reflections
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Chris Huebner, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at CMU. In this new series of meditations, he guides us through the season of Lent with excerpts from his 2020 book, Suffering the Truth: Occasional Sermons and Reflections.
Read MoreWe Need to Talk: Climate change and war
"When you are going through hell, keep on walking"
A wise friend of mine posted that quote recently, and I have been clinging to it, like a kind of psychological life raft.
Read MoreNonviolent resistance: we need to talk
In my 20s, I supported the armed revolutionary movement in Nicaragua. At that time, I would have said that nonviolence was 'naïve', that it worked for Gandhi against the British in India because the British were so 'civilized' (if my former belief that the British were "civilized" colonizers leads you to guess that I'm basically a mix of Scottish/English/Irish settler stock, you'd be correct). I fully believed that to truly bring about revolutionary change, you'd need armed struggle.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: March 2021
Theme: Walking through Lent with Ecclesiastes
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are walking through the season of Lent guided by Gordon Matties, Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at CMU and MBBC. His series of meditations brings us into conversation with Ecclesiastes, and explores the crack in the darkness through which the light comes.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: March 2020
Theme: Living in Hope
Speaker: Karl Koop
Read MoreFaculty: In Their Own Words – Karen Ridd
Karen Ridd has been a lecturer in Conflict Resolution Studies at MSC since 2007. Karen is a mediator, facilitator, teacher and public speaker with over 25 years of experience as a conflict resolution practitioner, including work as a human rights volunteer in war zones in Central America with Peace Brigades International in the 1980s.
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