While the closing of a church is never easy, Warden Woods Mennonite Church turned some of their sadness into joy with a unique gift to Conrad Grebel University College.
Seventeen Conrad Grebel University College students traveled to Durban, South Africa on a 19-day music culture trip in May 2008. They attended concerts, visited AIDS clinics, met anti-apartheid and refugee workers, visited local markets, beaches and slums. They also unexpectedly found themselves in the midst of the violence that plagued South Africa in May.
On the occasion of the retirement of Conrad Grebel University College professor of theology, Dr. A. James Reimer, the college announced that the A. James Reimer Award at the Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre has reached its goal of $250,000.
This award was initiated by alumnus Alan Armstrong (Systems Design Engineering ’94) and enhanced through the generosity of many additional donors and matching funds from the Ontario Trust for Student Support.
Where can you pursue graduate studies in theology at a major university, study with outstanding Mennonite professors, interact with students from many faith traditions - and have your tuition fully paid?
Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo have established a new partnership in Graduate Theological Studies which provides all these benefits. This partnership was approved by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS) on March 14, 2008. The Master of Theological Studies degree will now be conferred conjointly by the college and the university.
Ernie Regehr of Waterloo, senior policy adviser for Project Ploughshares and adjunct associate professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, has received the 2008 Arthur Kroeger College Award for Ethics in Public Affairs.
Regehr is a founder and former executive director of Project Ploughshares, one of Canada’s leading peace organizations, and teaches Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College where Project Ploughshares began over 30 years ago.
Conrad Grebel president, Henry Paetkau, said:
Conrad Grebel University College student Leah Reesor is the winner of the college’s annual Peace Speech contest and will represent Conrad Grebel’s Peace and Conflict Studies program in the bi-national C. Henry Smith Oratorical Competition in May.
Spring Break often conjures up images of students flocking south for a good time in the sun – and this year, a number of Conrad Grebel University College students did exactly that. Their idea of a good time, however, was less traditional: a group of 23 Grebel students along with the college chaplain, Ed Janzen, drove 20 hours south of the University of Waterloo to New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama to help with the ongoing reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina.
Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy M. Bergen as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Theology.
Rhubarb: A Magazine of New Mennonite Art and Writing launches a special Ontario edition with a public reading and reception at Conrad Grebel University College on Saturday December 8th at 7:30pm in the college's Chapel. All members of the public are invited to attend.
Who is a Mennonite? Leading Mennonite historian Dr. Royden Loewen addressed this question in his Sawatsky Lecture at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, on November 8, 2007.
Loewen, who recalled that the first academic conference he ever attended was at Grebel, studies the connections between faith and ethnicity for Mennonites in Canada.