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2019 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).
View DetailsWhat 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:
View DetailsFace2Face | 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.
View DetailsTuition 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.
View DetailsFace2Face | 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.
View Details2018 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
View DetailsFace2Face | 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.
View DetailsRehearsing Scripture: Discovering God's Word in Community with Anna Carter Florence (video)
Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshal Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Dr. Florence is interested in preaching and public proclamation, and preparing leaders who can speakand listen in multiple contexts for ministry.
Her research focuses on testimony, pedagogies of preaching, the creative process by which communities engage and embody scripture, and how other fields—particularly poetry and theatre—offer models for prophetic speech.
View DetailsWith Gratitude 2018 | Willow Dyck Zerbe (video)
This video features Willow Dyck Zerbe (CMU '18) at With Gratitude, April 21, 2018.
Willow Dyck Zerbe
Bachelor of Arts, three year
Major: Social Science
With Gratitude 2018 | Jonathan Damon (video)
This video features Jonathan Damon (CMU '18) at With Gratitude, April 21, 2018.
Jonathan Damon Bachelor of Business Administration
Major: Business Management
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