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Sunday@CMU: February 2025

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.

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CMU announces appointment of academic dean

Dr. Janet Brenneman, Professor of Music, has been appointed Academic Dean of Canadian Mennonite University (CMU).

Effective July 2025, Dr. Brenneman begins a five-year term as Academic Dean spending her time working to support CMU faculty processes as well as maintaining a small teaching load to conduct CMU Choirs.

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Sunday@CMU: December 2024

Advent: A Season of Waiting

Throughout the Advent season, we wait for the coming of Christmas. On Sunday@CMU, Paul Doerksen's series of reflections will guide us through this time of anticipation and preparation. Paul is Associate Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies at CMU.

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CMU faculty awarded King Charles III’s Coronation Medal

Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor and Chair of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, has been awarded the King Charles III's Coronation Medal for her work on the Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees exhibition.

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Announcing the P.M. Friesen Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies

Edwin and Agnes Redekopp of Winnipeg have gifted CMU with a $2,000,000 endowment, to create the P.M. Friesen Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies (BTS).

The Edwin and Agnes Redekopp Endowment Fund will support permanent financing for a position at CMU that ensures the ongoing strength of BTS excellence in teaching, research, and service—particularly in ways that provide service to the Mennonite Brethren (MB) church tradition and draw on its witness.

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Sunday@CMU: September 2024

A Theology of Communications

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are kicking off the academic year with a new series from David Balzer, Associate Professor of Communications and Media at CMU. In these meditations, he delves into some key points of a theology of communications, considering how we might develop a biblical response to our unique technological era.

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CMU professor receives federal funds to study cultural, religious differences in family caregiving (WFP)

In 2018, more than 375,000 Manitobans spent 230 million hours looking after ill or aging family members—care worth $3.9 billion.

That same year, about one in four Canadians, or 7.8 million people, provided care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, a physical or mental disability or problems related to aging.

Those figures, the most recently available, come from Statistics Canada General Social Survey on Caregiving and Care. And over the next five years, they will form the background to new research by Canadian Mennonite University Prof. Heather Campbell-Enns.

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Sunday@CMU: August 2024

Seasonal Reflections on Food, Faith, and Land

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting reflections 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. Throughout this series, he explores the relationship between food, faith, and land.

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CMU professor awarded prestigious Canada Research Chair

Dr. Heather Campbell-Enns, Associate Professor of Psychology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 in Families and Aging.

This is the first time CMU has received a CRC award, which will contribute $120,000 to the university annually over a period of five years, for a total of $600,000 in funding.

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Hearts of Freedom | CMU Film Screening comments and Q&A

The Hearts of Freedom (HOF) is a national community project that collects and preserves the personal histories of refugees from Southeast Asia—Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia—who came to Canada between 1975 and 1985 and the Canadians who assisted them. The refugee oral histories were completed with funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Department of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and the DeFehr Foundation. One of the initial outcomes was the creation of a documentary film, Passage to Freedom (producer: Sheila Petzold), that features powerful oral histories of Southeast Asian refugees that made the dangerous journeys to Canada.

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