News Release: The Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre has ceased its regular programming. Grebel will remain an affiliate member of the Toronto School of Theology. Some other TMTC activities will likely continue under the leadership of other institutions. There will be final virtual event in Fall 2023. More information will be posted here when available. – Jeremy Bergen, TMTC Director

Events - 2018

Sunday, November 18, 2018 — 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM MST
book jackets

For those of you attending the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature meetings this year please join us for a book panel discussion on the evening of Sunday, November 18th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm in the Mt.

Friday, November 16, 2018 — 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM MST
forum and reception

Forum

Friday, November 16th, 2018, 6:30pm—8:30pm

Location: Sheraton Downtown, Silver Room (in the I.M. Pei Tower—Third Level)

Theme: Mission

  • Jamie Pitts, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, presiding
  • Ryan R. Gladwin, Palm Beach Atlantic University, "Anabaptism as a Help and Hindrance to Latin American Protestant Theologies of Mission: Moving Towards a Trinitarian and Postcolonial Theology of Mission"
  • Melanie A. Howard, Fresno Pacific University, "Peaceful Pedagogy: Paul’s Areopagus Speech (Acts 17:16–34) as a Model for Education-Based Mennonite Missions"
  • Joe Sawatsky, Mennonite Mission Network, "Translation, Contextualization, and North American Mennonite Mission with African Initiated Churches"
  • R. Bruce Yoder, Mennonite Mission Network, "Mennonite Missionary Contributions to the Emergence of ‘World Christianity’ as a Field of Study"

Please note that presenters will be given time for a brief introduction to their work before moving into a time of group discussion. You are therefore encouraged to read the papers in advance of attending the forum. Abstracts available here (PDF).

Full papers available here (PDF).

Reception

Friday, November 16th, 2018, 8:30pm—10:00pm

Location: Sheraton Downtown, Windows Room (in the I.M. Pei Tower—Second Level)

Sunday, November 4, 2018 3:00 PM EST
book jackets

Please join Gary Harder and TMTC Senior Fellow Lydia Neufeld Harder in a double book launch on Sunday, November 4th at 3pm at Toronto United Mennonite Church. Part memoir and part teaching, each book offers reflections on their life, journeys, and learnings. Both books, The Pastor-Congregation Duet and The Challenge is in the Naming, will be available for purchase and there will be a time for coffee/tea and dessert.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:00 PM EDT
welcome dinner

Please join us for our annual welcome dinner, which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 19th at 6:00pm in the Jay Boardroom at the Toronto School of Theology. This is often one of the biggest events of the year and is an opportunity to learn a bit more about TMTC, reconnect with fellow students, meet new ones, and also to hear a bit about what has been happening over the summer months and about upcoming events. Partners and friends are welcome! Please RSVP by September 14th.

Thursday, June 14, 2018 (all day) to Saturday, June 16, 2018 (all day)

Texts, Experiences, Interpretations

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:00 PM EDT

Trent Voth, graduate student at Emmanuel College, will lead a forum based on his doctoral work entitled "Usurping the Cross: Mark's Peripeteia as Subversive Strategy," focusing specifically on Mark 8:27-9:1.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Allison Murray is a TMTC Associate and a PhD candidate at Emmanuel College, with previous degrees from Conrad Grebel University College and Wilfrid Laurier University. She is working on a dissertation entitled "Making, Marking, and Mandating Gender Roles: A History of Complementarian Theology, 1970-2010." Her scholars forum, entitled "Gender Performance as a Mark of Faith: Historical Parallels in Evangelical and Mennonite Communities," will draw on material from her thesis project. In addition to her doctoral work Allison has been a Teaching Fellow with Emmanuel College's Teaching for Ministry program and writes for the collaborative academic blog Women in Theology. Please plan to join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 — 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST
event poster

Please join us for a special ecumenical book launch for The Architectonics of Hope: Violence, Apocalyptic, and the Transformation of Political Theology, written by TMTC's Director, Kyle Gingerich Hiebert. The event is designed to bring together a wide range of people from across the Toronto School of Theology and beyond.

Saturday, March 3, 2018 — 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST
blackboard

We are excited to be partnering with the Anabaptist Learning Workshop (ALW) to offer a workshop designed to facilitate reflection on current and/or future teaching practice. Lead by Matthew Bailey-Dick, coordinator of the ALW and PhD candidate in Adult Education at the U of T, this interactive workshop will give you a chance to reflect on who you are as a teacher OR who you will be as a teacher. Through the two lenses of Anabaptist-Mennonite faith and non-faith-based pedagogy, we will explore some of the heights and depths of teaching, we will identify a variety of tools for facilitating good education, and we will reflect on how the roles of scholar, teacher, and Christian disciple interact. This workshop is for grad students, professors, pastors, Sunday School teachers, and others who want to explore the vocation of teaching.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:00 AM EST

PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam Jason Reimer Greig will lead a forum based on his doctoral work entitled "L'Arche, Time, and Being a Peace Church." Jason spent 11 years living in a L'Arche community and is particularly interested in accentuating its theological dimensions. He is a graduate of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary where he wrote a masters thesis that was subsequently expanded and published with Georgetown University Press as Reconsidering Intellectual Disability: L'Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship. Please plan to join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:00 AM EST

Isaac FriesenTMTC Associate and University of Toronto PhD student in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, will lead a forum on "Bishops, not Pawns: The Roots and Reflexivity of Coptic Interfaith Programs in Provincial Egypt." His dissertation, titled “Navigating Tradition in Provincial Egypt: The Avenues and Ethics of Muslim Crossing into Coptic Spaces”, examines cultures of interfaith coexistence and conflict in Egypt since the 1960s. This anthropological and historical project is based in the town of Beni Suef, a friendly field site to which he was first introduced as a Mennonite Central Committee worker in 2011. Please plan to join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

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