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Sunday@CMU: April 2022
Posted in Audio | Sunday, April 3, 2022 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: The Lord's Prayer; Easter
As we enter the spring/summer semester, we are looking back on this year of Sunday@CMU. This month, we are rebroadcasting a series of meditations on the Lord's Prayer by Virginia Gerbrandt Richert, CMU alumna and associate pastor at Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church in Altona, MB. Plus: An Easter sermon by Dr. V. George Shillington, professor emeritus at CMU.
Listen NowSo What? A Podcast – Reconciliation: Destroy this Man-Made Temple
Posted in Audio | Friday, April 1, 2022 @ 9:54 AM
Christy Anderson tells her faith story and calls for change. This special episode features Christy's full sermon.
Anderson is a PhD Candidate and CMU's Indigenous Engagement Advisor.
Listen NowSo What? A Podcast – Reconciliation: Man-Made Temples
Posted in Audio | Friday, April 1, 2022 @ 9:45 AM
Jesus called for an end to oppression. How did the Bible become a weapon of colonization? Jonas talks with Christy Anderson, CMU Indigenous Engagement Advisor, about a sermon she gave at CMU in Fall 2021.
Anderson's full sermon is available as a special feature episode of this podcast.
Listen NowNonviolent resistance: we need to talk
Posted in Faculty Profiles | Thursday, March 31, 2022 @ 1:42 PM
In my 20s, I supported the armed revolutionary movement in Nicaragua. At that time, I would have said that nonviolence was 'naïve', that it worked for Gandhi against the British in India because the British were so 'civilized' (if my former belief that the British were "civilized" colonizers leads you to guess that I'm basically a mix of Scottish/English/Irish settler stock, you'd be correct). I fully believed that to truly bring about revolutionary change, you'd need armed struggle.
Continue ReadingCSOP student brings learning back to social services work
Posted in Stories | Wednesday, March 30, 2022 @ 2:01 PM
When Reezwana Yadallee heard that Mary Jo Leddy was teaching a course at the 2021 Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), she told herself she could not miss it.
Leddy is the author of Radical Gratitude, a book that greatly impacted Yadallee when she read it for her class on voluntary simplicity at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). "[The book] forces you to do some self-introspection in a way, on yourself and what life actually really means," Yadallee said.
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