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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.

What a treat to have three evenings to spend with John Bell!

says Ed Janzen, Conrad Grebel University College Chaplain.

It is new territory for students enrolled in Conrad Grebel University College’s Master of Theological Studies program this fall. As the result of an agreement with the University of Waterloo, students in this Grebel program are registered for the first time as University of Waterloo graduate students.

Previously, the Graduate Theological Studies (GTS) program had no government funding, but a new focus on graduate level education has generated more interest and funding to a wide variety of graduate programs in Ontario.

When Jim Reimer speaks to Mennonites, he urges them to take the wider historical Christian tradition more seriously. And when he speaks to other Christians, he explains how Mennonites are a faithful part of that wider tradition.

Mennonites have lived in families and as sexual beings, throughout their history. Yet there has been minimal research on or conversation about the meaning, structure, and function of families in Mennonite history. Even less examined is the notion of sexuality as experienced and expressed by Mennonites in the past. Both are at the core of human identity. Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario is hosting a 2-day conference on “Family & Sexuality in Mennonite History: An Academic and Community Education Conference,” October 12-13, 2007.

"Giving back to the community seems to come naturally to Lynn, owner of Kitchener’s Music Plus,”

said Conrad Grebel Music Chair, Dr. Kenneth Hull, when announcing Lynn McRuer as this year’s winner of the Conrad Grebel University College Distinguished Alumni Service award.

In a groundbreaking constitutional amendment this March, Conrad Grebel University College students voted almost unanimously to increase their residence fees by ten dollars a term, in addition to regular fee increases. This levy will help to fund expenses to allow a refugee student to live at the college while studying at the University of Waterloo.

Currently, the University of Waterloo supports one refugee student. Next year it plans to support two, with hopes of increasing this number in the future.

Justus Zimmerly, Conrad Grebel Student Council President, thinks

On December 18, 2006 an historic agreement on Graduate Theological Studies (GTS) was signed between Conrad Grebel University College, St. Jerome’s University and the University of Waterloo.

This new milestone in our GTS program is the happy result of the good reputation established by the program, a compelling vision for the future, and much goodwill among those who worked together to reach this agreement,

Canadian author Sandra Birdsell will deliver the much anticipated 2007 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist- Mennonite Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. She has described her lectures as “The Confession of a Reluctant Mennonite.”

The Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar Lecture
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 7:00pm
Conrad Grebel University College, Great Hall

Reginald Bibby is probably Canada’s best known sociologist,

stated Conrad Grebel University College Academic Dean, Jim Pankratz.