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From Student to Teacher: A Journey of Faith, Learning, and Community
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Kenny Wollmann is a high school educator, teaching primarily Bible, theology, and world religions—but not in a typical classroom. Wollmann teaches students online in Hutterite communities across Manitoba and even into the northern United States.
Hutterites are communal Anabaptist Christian groups who live in rural colonies, share belongings and resources, and often sustain themselves through agriculture. With only small groups of students in each community, sharing resources, like teachers who are each experts in their subjects, helps ensure a robust learning program.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: October 2025
Sunday, October 5, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Peace with Creation
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from CMU alumna Zoe Matties. Zoe is Manitoba Program Manager for A Rocha Canada, a Christian environmental organization dedicated to caring for creation through conservation research, education, and community engagement. She graduated with an International Development Studies major, and holds a Master of Science in Food Systems and Society. In this new series of reflections, Zoe is exploring Peace with Creation, the theme of this year's Season of Creation—a period in the liturgical calendar dedicated to prayer, education, and action to protect the gift of God's creation.
Read MoreFrom peacebuilding to conservation: A CMU alum’s journey of justice, community, and care for creation
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 @ 8:00 AM
Aaron Janzen knows being an environmentalist is as much about working with people as it is with the land.
The self-described "social scientist type-person," graduated from CMU in 2008, majoring in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS).
Read More'Go beyond what you can imagine': Green energy grows at CMU (Winnipeg Free Press)
Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 1:51 PM
Canadian Mennonite University is unveiling a new "district geothermal energy system" — a first on a post-secondary campus in Manitoba — this weekend.
The project is estimated to cost $8.4 million.
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Read MoreStitching Together Community and Sustainability
Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 8:00 AM
Anna-Marie Janzen's earliest childhood memory is sewing.
She recalls sitting on the kitchen floor with her grandmother, playing with giant, oversized plastic needles and shaped cards as her grandma taught her the fundamentals of stitching and threading.
Read MoreCMU launches first-of-its-kind district geothermal energy system
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 @ 2:31 PM
On Saturday, September 20 at 2:00 PM, Canadian Mennonite University will launch the new academic year with a celebration of the first district geothermal energy system at a Manitoba post-secondary education institution.
"As we welcome our students and community back to campus, I am proud to showcase this important milestone in our efforts to build a more sustainable future," said Dr. Cheryl Pauls, CMU President. "Poettcker Hall is just the first of many buildings we will connect to the district geothermal system on our journey to a net zero campus."
Read MoreFinding Connection as an Outsider: How CMU Shaped a Public Servant
Thursday, September 11, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Marvin Marcial didn't mean to become a CMU student. What was initially supposed to be one music elective as a visiting student from the University of Winnipeg turned him into a full-time student who ended up graduating from CMU with a Bachelor of Music in 2007. "I ended up in choir and that changed the whole trajectory of my education, and I transferred over to CMU the next year," he says.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: August 2025
Sunday, August 3, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Voices of the CMU Community
This month on Sunday@CMU, we highlight student voices from the CMU community. Listen to stories produced by Communications and Media students in CMU's radio team course and hear performances from this year's 20th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition finals.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: July 2025
Sunday, July 6, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Thirsting for Faith, Quenching Doubt: Stories of Water in Life and Scripture
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting a series from CMU's former Residence Director and CMU alumna, Mackenzie Nicolle. In these reflections, she speaks about the ways in which water, thirst, faith, and doubt interrelate in the Bible and in her own life.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: June 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025 @ 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 rebroadcast of his series of meditations, he reflects on what Jesus' parables tell us about the Kingdom of God.
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