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CMU to honour Bob Haverluck with 2025 CMU PAX Award
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and theologian Bob Haverluck will be recognized with the 2025 CMU PAX Award on April 26 as part of the Class of 2025 Convocation Ceremony.
Bob Haverluck, a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and theologian from Manitoba will be awarded the 2025 Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) PAX Award.
As a community leader, Haverluck has encouraged wonder and passion for environmentalism and driven us to care for our neighbours in big and small ways. His dedication to social transformation embodies the foundational cornerstone of CMU's mission.
CMU President Cheryl Pauls will present the award to Haverluck as part of CMU's convocation ceremony on April 26 at Knox United Church in downtown Winnipeg.
Haverluck's "blended calling," says Pauls, "takes shape as much on the easel as on the stand-up stage, the pulpit, and everywhere in between."
Haverluck's lifetime pursuit as a student of theology, comedy, and social awareness has sustained decades of attention to ongoing healing and restoration. "Bob brings a deeply heartening lightness of thoughtfulness to fine work that indeed will live on," says Pauls.
Established in 2015 and awarded annually at CMU's convocation ceremony, The CMU PAX Award acknowledges and honours people who lead exemplary lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.
Through his wisdom and distinctive storytelling capabilities, Haverluck utilizes comedy and takes seriously the power of humour to engage and wrestle with our most urgent and ever-present issues.
He is a highly acclaimed and decorated visual artist whose drawings have appeared in Harpers, New Statesman, This Magazine, ARTS: Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, and many others.
He is the author of numerous books that highlight the transformative power of conscientious peacemaking, and his most recent publication, When God Was Flesh and Wild: Stories in Defence of the Earth, is an imaginative retelling of various biblical stories that plays with the juxtapositions and prevalence of grace.
Through integrating his drawings and humour into serious environmental discernment, Haverluck teaches the necessity of humour in understanding the Bible.
His education and outreach work have led to numerous arts-based community projects where he has administered conferences and workshops across the country, including "Renewing Our Peace Treaty with the Earth" in collaboration and co-led with Cree Elder Stanley McKay.
Haverluck has also taught as a sessional philosophy and religious studies lecturer and served as the artist-in-residence at the University of Winnipeg. His accolades include, but are not limited to, first prize for poetry at the Canadian Church Press Awards in 2004, the YMCA Canadian Peace Medal in 1994, and an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews College in 1996.
CMU's convocation weekend includes Spring at CMU on Friday, April 25 at 7:00 PM. All are welcome to join in person at the Lowen Athletic Centre on the CMU campus or online via livestream to celebrate the graduating students and to enjoy performances by the CMU choirs.
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