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Learning From the Field | Public Lecture with Jane Rabinowicz (video)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 @ 12:04 PM
Jane Rabinowicz, Executive Director of USC Canada, was named to the Global and Mail's 53 most influential people in Canadian food for her seed security work in Canada in 2016. And in 2017, she was profiled by CBC as part of a six-part documentary series called "WE ARE CANADA," that celebrates the next generation of passionate Canadian change-makers.
View DetailsFace2Face | The Bible Tells Me So... Doesn't It? (video)
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 @ 1:23 PM
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Questions for Conversation
- Where have you come from? What assumptions and convictions has your church tradition given you to understand the role of the Bible in the life of faith? How have (or do) these assumptions and convictions shaped your faith experience?
- Where are you now? What issues or challenges have your church's assumptions and convictions about Scripture opened for you? Where and how has it been hard for you to understand Scripture as the authority you thought it ought to be? What questions do you have about interpreting Scripture?
2018 CMU Scientist in Residence | Dr. Rick Lindroth (videos)
Thursday, February 1, 2018 @ 1:35 PM

Rick Lindroth (PhD, University of Illinois-Urbana) is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Ecology and recent Associate Dean for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His research focuses on evolutionary ecology and global change ecology in forest ecosystems. He and his students have published ~200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. Lindroth has been a Fulbright Fellow and is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, the Entomological Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
View DetailsNiigaan James Sinclair | The History of the St. Peters Band Removal (videos)
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 @ 2:48 PM
A lecture by Niigaan James Sinclair on the story of the illegal surrender and forcible removal of the St. Peter's Band and the band's re-location to the present-day reserve of Peguis First Nation.
Niigaan James Sinclair, Anishinaabe (St. Peter's / Little Peguis), is an Assistant Professor in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba.
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2017 J.J. Thiessen / Friesen Lecture Series (video)
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 @ 8:40 AM
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on October 30 and 31 with a special lecture series delivered by the world's foremost scholar on Swiss Anabaptism.
The lectures explored some of the events and debates that ensued 500 years ago when Martin Luther composed 95 theses for debate in Wittenberg, drawing some conclusions for our day. Dr. C. Arnold Snyder presented the three-part series, titled, "Faith and Toleration: A Reformation Debate Revisited." Snyder, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON, posed the question: Should dissenting religious beliefs be tolerated on religious principle, and toleration established as civic policy?
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 Details2017 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Ken Esau (video)
Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 7:26 AM
Born and raised in Coaldale, AB, Ken Esau was planning to become an engineer before studying at MBBC led him in the direction of becoming a teacher.
Since 1991, Esau has been part of the Biblical Studies faculty at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC.
View DetailsFall@CMU 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 7:22 AM
Conversation, laughter, food, and song filled another successful Fall@CMU, the university’s annual autumnal gathering.
More than 900 people gathered at CMU September 22-23 for the event, formerly known as Fall Festival.
View Details2017 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Joanne Thiessen Martens (video)
Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 7:22 AM
Joanne Thiessen Martens is an agricultural research technician in the Plant Science Department at the University of Manitoba (U of M) in Winnipeg.
For the past 13 years, Thiessen Martens has worked on ecological and organic agriculture research, including a wide variety of projects like cover crops, integrated crop-livestock systems, soil fertility management for organic farms, and more.
View Details2017 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Henry Neufeld (video)
Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 7:17 AM
Henry Neufeld has spent more than six decades building positive relationships among Mennonite and Indigenous peoples.
Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Leamington, ON, Neufeld studied theology at CMBC.
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