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Dean Peachey
Thursday, October 11, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Backward/Forward: Reflections on Peace, Conflict, and Human Rights

Conversations with the 2018 recipient of the Conrad Grebel Distinguished Alumni Service Award - Dean Peachey '82,'86

Dean PeacheyThis conversation, hosted by Associate PACS Professor Reina Neufeldt, will focus on Dean's current work and some reminiscing on the early years as the PACS program was emerging at Waterloo.

Restored and Forgiven
Sunday, November 18, 2018 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Restorative Justice Week with Ray and Vi Donavan

Restored and ForgivenConrad Grebel University College and Mennonite Central Committee Ontario are excited to be hosting Ray & Vi Donovan from the United Kingdom as guest speakers for Restorative Justice Week in November.  As parents of an 18 year old boy murdered in the street 16 years ago, they work passionately to give voice to a restorative justice approach, through education and creating system change in areas such as policing and probation.  

Like a Fish in Water: Reclaiming Baptism in an Anabaptist Church
Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Like a Fish in Water: Reclaiming Baptism in an Anabaptist Church

Like a Fish in Water: Reclaiming Baptism in an Anabaptist ChurchThe 2019 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies will host Dr. Irma Fast Dueck from Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg. Fast Dueck is a practical theologian whose lecture will explore the topic of young people in the Mennonite church today.

Join us for a public lecture on reclaiming baptism in an Anabaptist church.

Baptism is one of the most primordial of Christian practices and until recently, has been a defining act, marking the believer as Christian and initiating them into the Christian community. For the early Anabaptists, critical of the sacramentalism of the medieval church, this primitive act of pouring water on heads was hardly a benign act, as that act of pouring eventually resulted, for many of them, in their own martyrdom. Indeed, for the early Anabaptists, the practice of baptism was a political act. The past couple of decades have presented serious challenges for those practicing baptism in the Anabaptist tradition—do Christians even need to be baptised?  Does baptism require church membership? This lecture will explore the contemporary practice of baptism in the Anabaptist tradition in light of these challenges. Baptism is not simply an event in time but it carries within it the contours of the Christian life. Baptism fuels the Anabaptist imagination for peace and justice. 

Reception to follow.

Taking the Plunge: Young Adults and the Church
Friday, February 8, 2019 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Taking the Plunge: Young Adults and the Church

Taking the Plunge: Young Adults and the ChurchThe 2019 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies will host Dr. Irma Fast Dueck from Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg. Fast Dueck is a practical theologian whose lecture will explore the topic of young people in the Mennonite church today.

Join us for a youth panel discussion.

There has been particular interest in the experience of young adults in this past decade, particularly in light of the decline of church attendance with the implicit assumption that if the church can’t connect with young adults it is indeed in serious trouble. “Why don’t young adults go to church?” is the question put simply if not superficially. And even if they are part of the church, why aren’t they getting baptized and becoming members? This evening we will engage the wisdom of young adults as they have encountered the church with the aim of better understanding what it means to be the church together, in this time and place.

Fretz lecture poster
Thursday, May 30, 2019 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

J. Winfield Fretz Visiting Scholar Lecture 2019

Feeding the Colony, the Nation and the Market: Transported Foodways and New Crops in Latin American Mennonite Communities

How did persistent attachment to wheat shape Mennonite settlement in Paraguay? What did it mean for Mennonites to rapidly expand the availability and affordability of butter, milk, and cheese in local markets in northern Mexico and eastern Bolivia? Learn how the place of Mennonites in Latin American societies over the past century has been premised on practices of producing, marketing and consuming food.

Mark Vuorinen
Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Witnessing Passion: 2019 Eby Lecture

eby lecture, October 10, 2019, 7:30 pm at GrebelThe 2019 Benjamin Eby Lecture will be presented by Mark Vuorinen. 

Witnessing Passion: Musical depiction of minor characters in Passion music by Bach, Ešenvalds, MacMillan and Pärt

Micheal Molloy talk invitation
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Public Talk | Canada's Indochinese Refugee Program: Policy Innovation and Societal Change

Micheal Molloy talk invitation

Michael Molloy is co-author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugee Movement 1975-80, and has 40 years’ experience in international and refugee affairs. In 1979 and 1980 he coordinated the Indochinese refugee program that brought 60,000 refugees to Canada. Molloy is Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, and is president of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society.