Portable CMU offers you the benefits of university instruction in your own local setting!  This brochure describes short courses on a wide range of topics our faculty members have prepared to deliver in a variety of contexts away from CMU.

Each course includes three or four sessions.  When chosen for use in a church context, many of these courses can culminate in a sermon on Sunday morning.  (However, please note that if the church requires a sermon that is not related to the topic of the short course, a separate negotiation is required.)  These courses fit well into a weekend of educational activities, or they adapt well for settings such as church retreats, pastors’ retreats, youth retreats, and so on.  Some of the topics lend themselves very well to intensive sessions for leadership groups or focus groups within an agency or a congregation.

We hope you will also consider collaborating with other churches in your vicinity to create a richer opportunity for exchange around one or more of these topics.  Perhaps several churches together could promote a fall or winter learning festival bringing together two, three, or more diverse topics in order to attract wide participation.

The cost of a course, including traveling expenses and an honorarium for the instructor, is $570.00.  For locations distant from Winnipeg, we also request that the hosting church or agency provide lodging and meals for the instructor, as well as transportation to and from the airport, where applicable.

If you would like to have a Portable CMU course at your church or group, contact Stephanie Penner. Please call early to make a booking since some offerings will be in high demand. We welcome bookings both by individual congregations and by two or more congregations working in cooperation.

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Courses 2011-12

Musicality:  Practising a Radical Grace
Cheryl Pauls, Associate Professor of Music

Rapture or New Creation?  Biblical Visions of the End
Dan Epp-Tiessen, Associate Professor of Bible

Biblical Resources for Healing
Dan Epp-Tiessen, Associate Professor of Bible

Preaching with Power and Passion
Dan Epp-Tiessen, Associate Professor of Bible

Reading the Church and World Theologically
Harry Huebner, Professor of Philosophy and Theology

Mathematics and Faith:  A Conversation
Tim Rogalsky, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Proclaiming Christ in a Post-Christendom Society
Titus Guenther, Associate Professor of Theology and Missions

Exploring Islam
John Derksen, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies

Love (All) Your Neighbours
Delmar Epp, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Music and Spiritual Meaning
Dietrich Bartel, Associate Professor of Music

The Problem of Prayer
Pierre Gilbert, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology

Bloodthirsty People:  Revenge on Stage and Screen
Paul Dyck, Associate Professor of English

Critical Issues in Congregational Worship
Christine Longhurst, Sessional Instructor of Music and Worship

Philippians and the Challenges of Christian Citizenship
Gordon Zerbe, Professor of New Testament

Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John
Sheila Klassen-Wiebe, Associate Professor of New Testament

Continuity and Change in Anabaptism
Karl Koop, Professor of History and Theology

Reading Dante in Disneyland
Chris Huebner, Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics