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CMU 2019 Graduation Ceremony | April 27, 2019 (video)
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put that into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9)
Valedictory address by Tegan Willick.
Read MoreWith Gratitude 2019 (video)
With Gratitude is a CMU graduation weekend feature during which class members share their experiences through spoken word or musical performance. The event brings together family members, graduates, students, faculty, and staff, and affords graduates a valuable opportunity to showcase what their studies have meant to them.
Marta Bunnet, Vitor Jara Leite, Hannah Derksen, and Kenji Dyck provided their refelctions as 2019's With Gratitude participants.
Read MoreWinning Performances of the 2019 Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition (video)
Stephanie Wilson's performance earned her first place and the $700 prize that comes with it on Wednesday, March 20. She is the first clarinetist to ever win the competition.
Nathan Dyck, a baritone in his third year of a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, placed second and received $500. Third place and its $300 prize went to pianist Madeleine Friesen, who is in her fourth year of a Bachelor of Music with concentrations in Music Education and Musicology.
Read More2019 CMU PAX Award Presentation to Rudy Wiebe (video)
Rudy Wiebe, is best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of Indigenous people. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and A Discovery of Strangers (1994) and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006).
Read MoreWhat stands out about CMU? (video)
Based on their time at CMU, we asked students to tell us what stands out to them. Here's what they had to say:
Read MoreFace2Face | Let's Talk about Death...it won't kill you (video)
Recorded February 11, 2019
We are often fearful of, or even repelled by, conversations about death or being in the presence of death—a reality that we and our culture tend to outsource to professionals whose job it is to cleanse and package death in sanitized ways. At the same time, our culture seems to be drawn to ghoulish obsessions involving death.
Read MoreTuition Freedom Day 2018 (video)
CMU students say thank you on Tuition Freedom Day, the day that marks the point where students' education is no longer funded by their tuition, but by the generosity of donors and government.
Below third year student Marnie Klassen speaks of her CMU experience and expresses her gratitude, on behalf of all CMU students, to all who support education at CMU.
Read MoreFace2Face | Whose Neighbour Am I? Newcomers to Canada (video)
Ours is a world in which millions of people flee danger and seek the possibility of new beginnings in lands and cultures foreign to their upbringing. Ours is also a world beset by various 'tribalisms' and perceptions of 'the other' whose presence for some feels unsettling. In Canada, a land of plenty, we have been gifted by, and have much to learn from the many newcomers and asylum seekers who now live, work, and study with and among us. Join in a conversation that will challenge and enrich our understanding of the neighbours that we are as we seek to foster understanding of our shared humanity.
Read More2018 J.J. Thiessen Lecture series with Dr. John Witvliet (3 videos)
Violence, Injustice, Trauma, and the Ordinary Practices of Christian Worship in a Social Media Age
with Dr. John Witvliet
Director & Professor of Worship, Theology, and Congregational and Ministry Studies at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, MI
Read MoreFace2Face | Whose Neighbour Am I? Treaty One and Mennonite Privilegium (video)
The stories of Indigenous and Mennonite peoples are woven into larger Canadian settlement movements, even as our experiences have been vastly different.
The early 1870's witnessed agreements with the government of Canada for both people groups. In August, 1871, Treaty 1—the first of seven signed Treaties—was signed between Canada and the Anishinabek and Swampy Cree of southern Manitoba, appropriating land from Indigenous peoples in return for reserved land and opening a basis for assimilation into Canadian society.
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