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Get to know CMU’s new Director of Student Life
Thursday, August 20, 2020 @ 12:08 PM
Charlie Peronto became CMU's Director of Student Life on July 1, following the retirement of long-time Dean of Student Life, Marilyn Peters Kliewer. Peronto began working at CMU in 2014 as Residence Director and quickly became an essential part of the campus community.
Peronto grew up in southern Wisconsin, but moved to Manitoba when he got married. Before starting at CMU, he was a pastor at a Mennonite Brethren church and lived in Churchill for several years, working in community health, construction, and with the airline. He began studying at CMU's Graduate School of Theology and Ministry in 2013 and continued his studies part-time over the six years he worked as Residence Director, graduating last spring with a Master of Arts in Theology. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife Jocelyn and their dog, Norman. They attend FaithWorks.
Continue Reading‘For the straight way was lost’: Navigating faith, grad studies, and mental illness
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 @ 12:04 PM
When MA Theology student Grace Kang was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she found herself forced to re-evaluate almost everything. So she went to grad school.
Haeon Grace Kang—Grace, in Anglophone circles—came to CMU searching for God: "I thought that studying God might help me to find a more intimate relationship with God. So far, I'd say that has worked out," she says.
Continue ReadingWords that bear repeating: chapel attendance up as CMU embraces liturgy
Monday, February 10, 2020 @ 3:04 PM
Thanks to a shift in approach, Tuesday all-campus worship gatherings at CMU are attracting a better, more consistent turnout from the student body. What's different? Spiritual Life Facilitator Danielle Morton says that incorporating liturgy has brought much-needed stillness, rest, and intimacy back to a campus worship routine that was not drawing attendance as it once had.
Continue ReadingA voice of and to the youth
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 @ 9:20 AM
There's a reason every time you see Nathan Dueck, he looks like he has somewhere to be. It's because he does. Dueck is on the Youth Advisory Council of Winnipeg's Mayor, Brian Bowman; he is a student representative on Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba's Board of Directors; and he is Vice President Advocacy on Canadian Mennonite University's (CMU) Student Council, through which he sits on CMU's Board of Governors, Senate, and Academic and Program Council, as well as its Sexual Violence Prevention Committee.
Continue ReadingPracticum student captures camp life through poetry
Thursday, September 12, 2019 @ 8:45 AM
When Nadya Langelotz decided to direct a summer camp, she thought it would require putting on hold one of her biggest passions: writing.
It was while working at the end of last semester in CMU's printing press, located in one of CMU's castle-like towers, that the fifth-year English major lamented to her friend that she wouldn't have time to write during the busy schedule of camp. When her friend suggested doing it as a practicum at camp, Langelotz doubted it would work. How could writing and camp go together?
Continue ReadingWhat stands out about CMU? (video)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 @ 6:42 AM
Based on their time at CMU, we asked students to tell us what stands out to them. Here's what they had to say:
View DetailsWhat "one word" for you describes CMU? (video)
Monday, April 9, 2018 @ 6:38 AM
We asked CMU students what word for them describes their experience at CMU. Here's what they had to say:
View DetailsCMU and Kenji Dyck Present: Reflections on Student Life (video)
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 @ 12:24 PM
As a self-directed project, CMU student Kenji Dyck recently shot and produced a video which highlights an significant part of any student’s post-secondary education and sense of belonging—student life.
Here’s a look at what he chose to capture as a reflection on what makes the CMU experience special.
View DetailsGraduate student explores his Mennonite roots at CMU
Friday, July 7, 2017 @ 12:20 PM
"What does it mean for me to be a Mennonite?"
That's the question that brought Daniel Rempel to CMU. Rempel is finding the answers to that question as he works toward a Master of Arts in Theological Studies in CMU's Graduate School of Theology and Ministry.
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