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Pianist wins 2022 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
A pianist from Fort Frances, Ontario is the winner of the 17th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).
Anna Schwartz's performance in the finals, held on Friday, April 8 in CMU's Laudamus Auditorium, earned her first place and the $700 prize that comes with it.
Read MoreCMU announces 2022 Leadership Scholarship recipients
This year's recipients are Micah Janzen, Madeline Hiebert, Lia Campbell-Enns, and Julia Sawatzky. Each were awarded $3,500 annually for up to four years, to a maximum of $14,000.
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) takes every effort to make university accessible and affordable. In 2021/22, CMU administered over $750,000 in scholarships and bursaries to roughly 50% of the student population.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: May 2022
Theme: "Who do I say that I am?" Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John
As we enter the spring/summer semester, we are looking back on this year of Sunday@CMU. This month, we are rebroadcasting a series of meditations by Marnie Klassen, a CMU alumna who graduated with an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Theology. Throughout this series, Marnie explores what we can learn about Jesus from his many I AM statements in the Gospel of John.
Read More2022 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition Finals (video)
View the full performance of each finalist, hear the jurors' comments, and learn the outcome of the competition.
Read MoreCMU is Climate Smart certified again in 2022
Maybe it's that Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is nestled delicately into the scenic Assiniboine Forest; possibly, it's a deeply embedded philosophy or theology, but it's clear that sustainability has always been important to CMU.
Suitably, CMU is once again Climate Smart certified for 2022—apt timing for Earth Day. This is CMU's second certification. The first was in 2020.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: April 2022
Theme: The Lord's Prayer; Easter
As we enter the spring/summer semester, we are looking back on this year of Sunday@CMU. This month, we are rebroadcasting a series of meditations on the Lord's Prayer by Virginia Gerbrandt Richert, CMU alumna and associate pastor at Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church in Altona, MB. Plus: An Easter sermon by Dr. V. George Shillington, professor emeritus at CMU.
Read MoreCSOP student brings learning back to social services work
When Reezwana Yadallee heard that Mary Jo Leddy was teaching a course at the 2021 Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), she told herself she could not miss it.
Leddy is the author of Radical Gratitude, a book that greatly impacted Yadallee when she read it for her class on voluntary simplicity at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). "[The book] forces you to do some self-introspection in a way, on yourself and what life actually really means," Yadallee said.
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Read MoreBlazers celebrate local championship, prepare for a historic trip to volleyball nationals
March 6, 2022 marked a momentous day for Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) Blazers Athletics. The Blazers men's volleyball team became the first-ever representative of the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference (MCAC) at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Volleyball National Championship.
Protracted titles aside, the Blazers are headed to nationals for the first time in CMU history.
Read MoreMBA alumna protects data of millions at innovative tech company
CMU alumna Tomisin Bolorunduro moved to Vancouver, a city where she knew no one, in the midst of a pandemic. But what she moved for was worth it: a job at Trulioo, an innovative tech start-up and global leader in online identity verification and data privacy.
In today's digital world, one can do almost everything online, from opening a bank account to buying cryptocurrency to renting a house—but all these transactions require identity verification and data protection to ensure they're safe and legitimate.
Read More2022 John and Margaret Friesen Lecture Series "Reading Mennonite Writing Now" (videos)
Mennonite literary studies in North America is in a period of transition, with new scholarly avenues opening as critics respond to a fast-growing body of Mennonite fiction, poetry, and life writing. What does Mennonite literature look like today, and how can we read it most productively?
Dr. Robert Zacharias is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mennonite Studies. He is editor of After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America (2016), and author of Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature (2012). His new book, Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism, is forthcoming this spring from Penn State University Press.
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