{"id":1902,"date":"2011-08-30T11:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2011-08-30T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:33:07","slug":"scholar-students-at-cmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2011\/scholar-students-at-cmu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Students at CMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1903\" title=\"IMG_2743a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2743a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2743a.jpg 935w, https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_2743a-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>In June 2011, nine female graduate students from Iran took a summer course on <em>Christian Understanding of Peace and Justice <\/em>at CMU. The students were in Winnipeg for an academic conference bringing together Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi\u2019a Muslim scholars from Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/index.php\/2011\/ongoing-conversation-seeks-to-tear-down-walls-build-relationships\/\">Read more<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The student scholars, who participated in the 2011 interfaith conference as observers, remained afterwards for a special five-day course, held June 6 \u2013 10, presented by Irma Fast Dueck, associate professor of Practical Theology, Sheila Klassen-Wiebe, associate professor of New Testament, and other faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inclusion of Iranian women at the conference, and the opportunity afterwards for study, was exciting for us,\u201d says Fast Dueck, who along with Klassen-Wiebe developed academic and personal friendships with CMU\u2019s academic guests.<\/p>\n<p>Among those taking the CMU course was Maryam Esmaeili, who teaches history of Islam and the interpretation of the Quran at the al-Zahra University, an Islamic university for women in Qom that has 15,000 full-time and correspondence students. She believes interfaith conversations and interactions can improve relationships between Muslims and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I don\u2019t speak with you, my judgment about you might be wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we sit around the table and talk, my judgment about you is correct because I understand you and you understand me.\u201d* (*excerpt from CMU\/MCC news release)\u00a0 The course work led to reflection and opportunities for meaningful dialogue on similarities and differences in faith traditions and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to continue this important process of listening and learning from one another at future conferences,\u201d says Klassen-Wiebe, who expressed her appreciation for the rich daily prayer life of the student scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2011, nine female graduate students from Iran took a summer course on Christian Understanding of Peace and Justice at CMU. The students were in Winnipeg for an academic conference bringing together Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi\u2019a Muslim scholars from Iran. Read more\u2026 The student scholars, who participated in the 2011 interfaith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}