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 - 2019

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 2:00 PM EST
scholars forum

Sarina Annis is a PhD student at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she studies Christian mission work among Indigenous peoples in Treaty 3 territory. She has an MSc in the Anthropology of Religion from the London School of Economics and will present a paper based on her master’s research: “Early Mennonite Missionaries in Quebec: Thinking Through the Anthropology of Christianity.”

Friday, November 22, 2019 — 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM PST
forum and reception

Forum

Friday, November 22nd, 2019, 6:30pm—8:30pm

Location: Hilton Bayfront - Indigo D (Second Level)

Theme: Migration, Borders, and Belonging

  • Melanie Howard, Fresno Pacific University, presiding
  • Jennifer Graber, University of Texas, "Missionary Encounters with Native Christian Epistemologies"
  • Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University, "Borderlands in the Mennonite Imagination"
  • Joseph Wiebe, University of Alberta, Augustana, "Race, Religion, and Land in The Gods of Indian Country"
  • Hyejung Jessie Yum, University of Toronto, "A Postcolonial Response to Felipe Hinojosa’s Latino Mennonites"

Reception

Friday, November 22nd, 2019, 8:30pm—10:00pm

Location: Hilton Bayfront - Indigo E (Second Level)

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 2:00 PM EST
scholars forum

Hyung Jin (Pablo) Kim Sun is a PhD student in Theological Studies at Emmanuel College of Victoria University. He will be presenting a paper entitled "Making an Intercultural Mennonite Ethnoreligion in a Global Context.”

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 2:00 PM EDT
scholars forum

Hyejung Jessie Yum is a PhD student in Theological Studies at Emmanuel College in the Toronto School of Theology.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:00 PM EDT
welcome dinner

Please join us for our annual welcome dinner, which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 18th 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 13th.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00 PM EDT

Jordan Duerrstein is a third-year M.Div. student at Wycliffe College and serves as the associate pastor at The Meeting House, downtown Toronto. Jordan grew up in the Mennonite Brethren Church in the Niagara region, completed his undergraduate degrees in music and education at the University of Toronto, lived in an intentional community in St. James Town (Toronto) as part of a MoveIn team for three years, and taught music and media studies in England for a year before returning to Wycliffe. Jordan is married to Danielle and they are both looking forward to their first child, expected in late February. He is working on an M.Div. thesis this year and will present a paper entitled “Peace theology among Evangelical Anabaptists: how much of a peace church are we really?” Please join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion! If you do plan to attend, please RSVP no later than Friday, March 29th and let us know if you have any dietary requirements we need to be aware of.

Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00 PM EDT
poster with Rublev's icon of the Trinity

The Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre (TMTC) is excited to announce that our 2019 Public Lecture will be held on Thursday, March 14th at 7pm in the Jay Boardroom at the Toronto School of The

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:00 AM EDT

Emma CW Ceruti is a PhD student in Theological Studies at Emmanuel College. Her research area is disability theology and her advisor is Professor Tom Reynolds. She received her MA in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York with Dr. James Cone as her thesis advisor. Recently, she has published book reviews in the Toronto Journal of Theology, the Journal of Religion and Disability, and the Disability Studies Quarterly. She currently serves as Vice President Academic for the Toronto School of Theology Graduate Students' Association. Emma will be presenting a paper entitled "Atonement Theology in Disability Perspective." Please join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

Monday, March 4, 2019 2:00 PM EST

On Monday, March 4th at 2pm TMTC Associate and Emmanuel PhD candidate Melanie Kampen will be defending her doctoral thesis, which is entitled "The Spectre of Reconciliation: Mennonite Theology and Indigenous Cultural Genocide in Canada."


The defence will take place at the Toronto School of Theology on Monday, March 4th from 2–4pm in Boardroom 2. Current TST students and faculty may attend the defence itself and TMTC will be hosting a reception, to which all are invited, immediately afterwards. Please join us if you can!

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:00 AM EST

Gerald Ens is a 2nd year PhD student in the department of religious studies at McMaster University, studying under Professor P. Travis Kroeker. His interests include ecclesiology, ethnography, and theological ethics. Gerald's undergraduate thesis was a theoretical study of ecclesial boundaries that drew on the work of John Howard Yoder, Romand Coles, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His Master's thesis investigated the thought of Simone Weil, in dialogue with Jean Vanier, on the theme of others and otherness. Gerald has also worked closely with and presented papers on the thought of Augustine. Gerald's current work will employ ethnographic research to do a theological accounting for the experiences and practices of lay and professional in the Canadian Mennonite church. The broader concerns animating this are the possibilities and practices of theological community in an age of mobility and alienation. Gerald holds a BA (hons) from Canadian Mennonite University in Biblical and Theological Studies and Philosophy and an MA in Western Religious Thought and Religion and Politics from McMaster University. Gerald will be presenting a paper entitled "Good Deaths in Wendell Berry's Short Stories." Please join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:00 PM EST

Jordan Balint is a Ph.D. student in theology at Emmanuel College. A former L'Arche London assistant, his research focuses on eschatology and disability theology as mutually beneficial critical discourses that open faith to hope in action for the transformation of the world. He is also interested in food issues and agrarian readings of the Bible--farming, cooking, security and justice. A friend of numerous microbial cultures, fermentation experiments can be found in cupboards, corners of bookshelves, and under the sink, waiting to become your friend also. Jordan will be presenting a paper entitled "The Future of Disability: Critical Eschatology and Disability in Constructive Theology." Please Join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion!

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