Portable CMU

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 Joyce Friesen. Please contact 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.

Download the Portables Booklet (PDF)

Courses 2012-13

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, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Proclaiming Christ in a Post-Christendom Society
Titus Guenther, Associate Professor of Theology and Missions
(Note: This topic will be available only in Fall of 2012)

Understanding Islam
John Derksen, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Who Wins in the End? The Christian Apocalypse in Popular Culture
Brian Froese, Assistant Professor of History

Thinking Christianly about the Movies
Gordon Matties, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology
(Note: This topic will be available only in Fall of 2012)

Music and Spiritual Meaning
Dietrich Bartel, Associate Professor of Music

Biblical Stories in Contemporary Literature
Sue Sorensen, Associate Professor of English

Revenge Transformed
Paul Dyck, Associate Professor of English

The Message of Romans: Then and Now
Gordon Zerbe, Professor of New Testament

Christian Engagement in Diverse Ethics of Change
Jonathan Sears, Assistant Professor of International Development Studies

Church, State, and Society: God's People in God's World
Paul Doerksen, Assistant Professor of Theology