Jeremy M. Bergen

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Publications

• "Towards the Conversion of Churches," Canadian Mennonite, 11 January 2010, 4-6.
• Edited, with Anthony G. Siegrist, Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2009.
• “Reconciling Past and Present: A Review Essay on Collective Apologies.” Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace 2/2 (Spring 2009).
• Report on Mennonite-Shiite dialogue in Qom, Iran.  Published in The Canadian Mennonite, The Mennonite, Mennonite Weekly Review, UW Daily Bulletin, www.ecumenism.net.  June/July, 2009.
• Review of Arthur Paul Boers, The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago. In Mennonite Quarterly Review 83 (2009): 160-162.
• Edited, with Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop, Creed and Conscience: Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2007.
• “Problem or Promise? Confessional Martyrs and Mennonite–Roman Catholic Relations.”  In Martyrdom in an Ecumenical Perspective: A Mennonite–Catholic Conversation, ed. Peter C. Erb, 175-205. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2007.  Originally published in Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

 

Conference Presentations

• "The Apologies of Church and State: Thinking Theologically About Canada's Apology for Indian Residential Schools in Light of Previous Church Statements," Ecclesiological Investigations Group, additional meeting. American Academy of Religion, Montreal, 8 November 2009.
• “Baptism of Blood: Peace, Justice, and Christian Martyrdom in Mennonite Perspective.” Shi’a-Muslim  and Mennonite-Christian Dialogue Conference on Peace and Justice. Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, Qom, Iran, May 26, 2009.
• “The Communion of Saints: Forgiveness of Sins?” Louvain Encounters in Systematic Theology VI. Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, November 7, 2007.

 

Other

• Academic Editor, The Conrad Grebel Review
• Chair, Program Committee, Canadian Theological Society

Leonard J. Enns
Professor of Music

Undergraduate Advisor, Music

• Current projects: (1) song cycle for Mel Braun and Laura Loewen of University of Manitoba, entitled Behind the Seen; (2) a second CD of my chamber music, entitled Vanishing Point
• November 27, 2010: premiere of my composition, Ten Thousand Rivers of Oil, with the joint chamber choirs of University of Guelph and UW, St George’s Anglican Church, Guelph (repeated Dec 3, Knox Presbyterian, Waterloo)
• May, 2010: ShadowLand, the new CD of my DaCapo Chamber Choir, was awarded “Outstanding Choral Recording 2010” by the Association of Canadian Choral Communities.
• May 20-23 I attended Podium, the national symposium of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, where my composition, I saw eternity, received several performances (by the joint university choirs of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta; and by the Elora Festival Singers)
• April, 2010: my composition, Nocturne, was a JUNO nominee for “Classical Composition of the Year”.
• January – June, 2010: composition sabbatical.  I was a Leighton Colony Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre in January and May, working on my major composition project, Ten Thousand Rivers for Oil, for the University of Guelph. The work will be premiered November 2010 (see above).
• November, 2009: ShadowLand, the latest CD of my DaCapo Chamber Choir, is launched.
• July 3, 2009, I presented a lecture/recital on my song cycle, In the End, at the Phenomenon of Singing Symposium in St John’s Newfoundland.
• July 2008: attended the 8th International World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen
• I direct the DaCapo Chamber choir in three double concerts each year (for 2010/2011 these are on Nov 13/14; March 5/6; May 1/7). The DaCapo Chamber Choir has also been invited to perform on the Signature Series of the KW Symphony on Nov 5, 6, and 7, and will share a concert with the Harvestehude chamber choir from Germany on July 9, 2011 (Kitchener).
  
  

 

Marlene Epp
Associate Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies

• Co-editing collection of essays, Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: An Exploration in Canadian Food History.
• Presented paper, "Preachers, Prophets, and Missionaries: The dichotomous religious lives of Mennonite women in Canada," Canadian Society for Church History, SSHRC Congress, 24 May 2009.
• Presented paper, “Memories of Sauerkraut and Zwieback: Foodways in the Mennonite Diaspora,” to Canadian Historical Association, SSHRC Congress, 27 May 2009.
• Doing various speaking engagements on Mennonite Women in Canada: A History. University of Manitoba Press, 2008.
• Convocation speaker, Rockway Mennonite Collegiate graduation, 27 June 2009.
• Presenting John & Margaret Friesen Lectures in Anabaptist Mennonite Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, November, 2009.
• Appointed Editor of Canadian Historical Association's Canada's Ethnic Groups Booklets.

Lowell Ewert
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies
Director, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Undergraduate Advisor, Peace and Conflict Studies

• "Human Rights, Health, War and Peace," Chapter co-written with Dabney Evans,
  for a book on Peace Through Health edited by Neil Arya and Joanna Santa
  Barbara to be published by Kumarian Press, 2007.
• The Structure of Peace," article submitted to Interaction, the magazine of
  the Conflict Resolution Network Canada.
• Law as a Sword, Law as a Shield," lecture to be presented as the Eby
  Lecture, Conrad Grebel University College, November 23, 2006.
• Presentation entitled "Emerging Strategies for Confronting International
  Child Labour," made at the CASID Conference, 2006 Congress, York University,
  on June 1, 2006.
• Presentation entitled "A Rights-Approach to a Working Children Intervention
  in Egypt," made at conference entitled Child and Youth Rights, Brock
  University, July 20, 2006.
  

Nathan Funk
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies

Writing

• "Religious and Cultural Dimensions of Peacemaking," Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Fall 2007); http://www.plowsharesproject.org/journal/.
• "Transforming Islamic-Western Identity Conflict: A Framework for Strategic Engagement," International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007), pp. 23-51.
• "Applying Canadian Principles to Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East." In Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice, ed. Paul Heinbecker an Bessma Momani (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), pp. 25-44.
• "Rethinking War and Peace" (review of book by Diane Francis). Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 161-163.
  
  Conference Papers and Addresses
• "Peacemaking Among the Religions of Abraham: Overcoming Obstacles to Coexistence" (with Meena Sharify-Funk), presented at the conference, "Children of Abraham: A Trialogue of Civilizations," hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 22, 2007.
• "Reframing Interreligious Dialogue: Opportunities for Muslim-Christian and Abrahamic Peacemaking," presented at the American Academy of Religion Eastern International Region Annual Conference in Waterloo, Ontario, May 4, 2007.
  
  Public Speaking
• "Religion and Peacebuilding," lecture at the Kitchener Publich Library, Kitchener, ON, February 11, 2008.
• "Meeting in Peace: BAses for Muslim-Christian Cooperation," presented at the annual convention of Mennonite Economic Development Associates, Toronto ("Trust in a World of Change"), Ontario, November 2, 2007.
• "The Muslim World Today," lecture at Steinmann Mennonie Church, Baden, ON. April 20, 2008.
• Gave the keynote presentation for "Peawce ACtion 2007," a program of the Y Service Clubs of Central Canada, YMCA Cedar Glen Conference Centre, NObleton, ON, September 28, 2007.
• "Finding Peace," speech for the 32nd Annual Community Prayer Breakfast hosted by the Kitchener-Waterloo council of Churches and the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, at the Waterloo Inn in Waterloo, ON, May 7, 2007.
  
  Professional Activities
• In January 2008, appointed to the Board of Directors of Peacebuild: The Canadian Peacebuilding Network.

Laura J. Gray
Associate Professor of Music

       Writing

• January, 2008: contributed an article on the music programme at Grebel to The Music Times: ?A Lively Life of Music at The University of Waterloo?

       Conference Papers

• June 8, 2008: presented a paper entitled "Inventing Sibelius: Aspects of Myth-Making in the 'Sibelius Cult'" at the 2008 meeting of The Canadian University Music Society at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

       Teaching

• February, 2008: recognized as Faculty of Arts Professor of the Month by the Arts Student Union -September, 2008: launching a new course for senior Music majors:
  Music 491: Music Research Seminar

       Service

• Board member: NUMUS, Inc. (New Music Organization based in Waterloo)
  

       Sabbatical

• January-June, 2009: Sabbatical: The majority of the sabbatical will be devoted to finishing and revising a book project on Sibelius reception in England, The Sibelius Cult? and the Myth of the Symphony?.
  

 

Kenneth Hull
Associate Professor of Music
Chair of Music Department
Director, Institute for Worship and the Arts 

Publications

• “Music wars, neuroscience, and self psychology,” Liturgy 24:4 (October-December 2009), 24-31.

Papers Read

• March 21, 2010: “Charles James Stewart and the first Canadian Anglican hymn book,” Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Ottawa.
• March 9, 2009: “Hymns and liturgical meaning-making,” Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, ON
• January 2008: “Musical semiotics: the work of Naomi Cumming” (with Byron Anderson, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary), Annual Meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy, Savannah, GA.
• July 2007: “19th-century Canadian Anglican hymnody,” at The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada Annual Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Workshops

• February 17, 2009 (twice): “Singing the psalms in worship,” Mennonite Church Eastern Canada School for Ministers, Waterloo, ON.
• October 2008: “Singing the psalms in worship,” Rockway Mennonite Church, Kitchener, ON.
• Summer 2007: Ontario Liturgical Musicians Conference (Roman Catholic), St. Peter’s Seminary, London, ON. Three workshops, on global music, choosing hymns, and how musical style impacts the Ordinary texts of the Mass.

Performances: Conducting

• April 18, 2010: Bach, Cantata 4, “Christ lag in Todes Banden,” Spiritus Ensemble, St John’s Anglican Church, Kitchener
• February 14, 2010: Bach, Cantata 127, “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott,” Spiritus Ensemble, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary Chapel
• November 22, 2009: Bach, Cantata 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” Spiritus Ensemble, St John’s Anglican Church, Kitchener
• October 4, 2009: Bach, Cantata 78 “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” Spiritus Ensemble, St John’s Anglican Church, Kitchener
• April 26, 2009: Bach, Cantata 12 “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen,” Spiritus Ensemble, St John’s Anglican Church, Kitchener

Performances: Pianist

• September 17, 2008: ‘Romantic Piano Music’, CGUC Chapel, Waterloo

Other Activities

• June 6-19, 2010: attended the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Toronto
• July 2009: Judge, Hymn-writing competition sponsored by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, Anglican Church of Canada.

James Pankratz
Academic Dean
Associate Professor of Religious Studies

       Publications

     “Militarism”, in The Encyclopedia of Mission and Missionaries, edited by Jonathan Bonk,

       in the series “Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society,” David Levinson

       series editor, New York and London: Routledge, 2007, 246-248.

      Public Presentations

• “Leading from the Front” A review and assessment of the contributions of Dr. John E Toews to the educational mission and development of Pacific College, Conrad Grebel University College, Tabor College and Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary.

• Presented at the “Symposium Celebrating the Work and Life of John E Toews”, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California, March 28, 2008.

• “Christians and People of Other Religions: A Case Study of Islam”, Waterloo North Mennonite Church, March 9, 2008

• “Muslims and Christians”, Floradale Mennonite Church, November 3, 2007

• “Christian Faith and Other Faiths: An Optimistic View”, Mennonite Church Canada Assembly, Abbotsford, BC, July 6, 2007

• "Christian Faith and Other Faiths," Series of four lectures, Lendrum Mennonite Brethren Church, Edmonton, Alberta, February 4-6, 2007

C. Arnold Snyder
Professor of History

W. Derek Suderman
Assistant Professor in Religious Studies (Old Testament)

• upcoming, Fall 2009. “Exile and Restoration,” 13 ‘Bible Background’ essays in the Gather ‘Round Sunday School curriculum.
• upcoming, Spring 2009. “Prayer” and “Psalm/Psalmist/Book of Psalms” in Mary Ann Beavis and Michael Gilmour (ed.), Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture: A Handbook for Students (Baylor University Press).
• “Are Individual Complaint Psalms Prayers? Prospects and Problems,” Paper presentation, Society of Biblical Literature, Boston MA, Nov. 22, 2008.
• “Vengeful Psalms Witness to the Gospel?!” Sermon at Rockway Mennonite Church, Kitchener ON, Oct. 5, 2008.
• “Overhearing Prayer,” Sermon at Rockway Mennonite Church, Kitchener ON, Sept. 28, 2008.
• “Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Challenges: Hearing Deuteronomy’s Call,” Four-session Bible Study workshop at the Mennonite Church Canada/Mennonite Church USA People’s Summit, Winnipeg MB, July 9-10, 2008.
• “There and Back Again: Describing the Place of Form Criticism within ‘the Biblical Exegetical Method,’” Paper presentation, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Vancouver BC, June 2, 2008.
• “Promise or Peril? Studies in Deuteronomy,” four-session regional Bible Study, St. Jacob’s Mennonite Church, St. Jacob’s ON, June, 2008.
• “Internet and the Bible: Oil and Water or Bosom Buddies?” Workshop at the School for Ministers Conference, MCEC and Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo ON, Feb.19, 2008.
• “Does God Change?” Sermon at St. Jacob’s Mennonite Church, St. Jacob’s ON, Oct. 21, 2007.
• “Remembering the Gospel of the Exodus,” Sermon at Wanner Mennonite Church, Oct. 14, 2007.

 

Hildi Froese Tiessen
Professor of English and Peace and Conflict Studies

Writing

• Woldemar Neufeld’s Canada: A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape 1925-1995. Text by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen; Layout/Images edited by Laurence Neufeld and Monika McKillen. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.
• Guest-edited, with an introduction, Journal of Mennonite Studies 28 (2010): A Special Issue on Mennonite/s Writing: Manitoba and Beyond.
• Guest-edited, with an introduction, Conrad Grebel Review 25 (Winter 2008): A Special Issue on Mennonite/s Writing.
• Edited, with an introduction, Rhubarb: A Magazine of New Mennonite Art and Writing, Volume 15. Words and Images From Ontario (Fall 2007). Co-edited with Margaret Loewen Reimer.
• Edited, with Paul Tiessen, After Green Gables: LM Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916-1941. University of Toronto Press, 2006.
• Guest-edited, with an introduction, Conrad Grebel Review 22.2 (Spring 2004): A special Issue on Rudy Wiebe and the Mennonites – forty years on.
• Compiled and edited, Rudy Wiebe: a tribute. Kitchener, ON and Goshen, IN: Sand Hills Books and Pinchpenny Press, 2002.

Articles and Chapters in Books

• Mennonite/s Writing: State of the Art?” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2008): 41-49.
• “The conflicted worlds behind the letters of L.M. Montgomery and Ephraim Weber,” in Jean Mitchell, ed. Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. 278-294.
• “Mennonite/s Writing: State of the Art?” Conrad Grebel Review 26.1 (Winter 2008): 41-49.
• “The Story of a Novel: How We Found Ephraim Weber’s ‘Aunt Rachel’s Nieces,” Journal of Mennonite Studies 26 (2008): 159-178.
• “The Artist Rooted in a Traditional Community: Mennonite Writers Escape the Binary Paradigm,” in Deborah Bowen, ed. The Strategic Smorgasbord of Post-Modernity: Literature and the Christian Critic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Pp. 225-237.
• “Woldemar Neufeld 1909-2002: From Waldheim, Russia to New Milford, Connecticut,” in Laurence Neufeld and Monica McKillen, eds. New Milford Portfolio: Woldemar Neufeld’s Paintings and Blockprints of New Milford, Connecticut. New Milford, CT: New Milford Tricentennial Commission in colaboration with the Woldemar Neufeld Estate, 2006. Jointly authored with Paul Tiessen.
• “A Mennonite Novelist’s Journey (from) Home: Ephraim Weber’s Encounters with S.F. Coffman and Lucy Maud Montgomery,” Conrad Grebel Review 24.2 (Spring 2006): 84-108.
• “Epistolary Performance: Writing Mr. Weber,” in Irene Gammel, ed. The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 222-238. Jointly authored with Paul Tiessen. (Second Edition, 2006).
• “‘There was nothing to be read about Mennonites’: Rudy Wiebe and the Impulse to Make Story,” Conrad Grebel Review 22.2 (Spring 2004): 5-13.
• “Critical Thought and Mennonite Literature: Mennonite Studies Engages the Mennonite Literary Voice,” Journal of Mennonite Studies 22 (2004): 237-246.
• “Between Memory and Longing: Rudy Wiebe’s Sweeter Than All the World,” Mennonite Quarterly Review LXXVII.4 (October 2003): 619-636.
• “Mennonite Literature and Postmodernism: writing the ‘In-Between’ space,” in Susan Biesecker-Mast and Gerald Mast, ed. Anabaptism and Postmodernity. Pandora Press, U.S., 2000, 160-174.
• “Beyond the Binary: Re-inscribing Cultural Identity in the Literature of the Mennonites,” in John D. Roth and Ervin Beck, eds. Migrant Muses: Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. Goshen, Indiana: Mennonite Historical Society, 1998, pp. 11-21.

Recent Scholarly Papers and Presentations

• "'First Art, then Tennis': the Construction of Kitchener-Waterloo in the Visual Imagination of Woldemar Neufeld, 1925 – 1995," illustrated lecture, LALL (Laurier Association for Lifelong Learning) 13th Annual Anniversary Lecture, 25 May 2010. With Paul Tiessen.
• "Woldemar Neufeld's Early Years in Waterloo: Encounters with Homer Watson and the Group of Seven," illustrated lecture, Waterloo Historical Society, November 4, 2009. Composed with Paul Tiessen.
• “A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape, or Waterloo Neufeld's ‘Waterloo Revival’ Period (1968-1995): Waterloo: always a 'home for his heart,'" Kitchener Public Library Ideas and Issues Lecture Series, November 16, 2009. Composed with Paul Tiessen.
• "Well then, Eric Reimer, where are you going?' Mennonites Writing Diaspora," at "Narrating Mennonite Canada: History and/as Literature," a colloquium at TransCanada Institute at the University of Guelph February 27th, 2009.
• “‘Living ‘here’ and remembering ‘there”’: what to make of these imagined attachments in Mennonite literature,” special session on Canadian Mennonite Literature at the Christianity and Literature Study Group, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, the Congress 2009, Carleton University, May 23, 2009.
• “Complicated acts of leaving: the unraveling of Mennonite experience in the real world of Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness,” for the sessions of the Christianity and Literature Study Group (CLSG) of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May, June 2008.
• “Mr. MacMillan and Mr. Weber: Learning How to Read Anne of Green Gables,” at the Ryerson Showcase: The Anne of Green Gables Centenary, Modern Literature and Culture Centre, Ryerson University, April 2008.

Academic Appointments External to CGUC/UW

• Co-chair, with Royden Loewen, of a conference on Mennonite literature entitled “Mennonite/s Writing: Manitoba and Beyond.” The conference -- the fifth conference on Mennonite/s Writing since the first in 1990 -- took place October 1-4, 2009 in Winnipeg, the heart of Mennonite literary activity. Conrad Grebel University College co-sponsored the event.
• Advisory Board, L.M. Montgomery Research Group (lmmresearch.org/)
• Advisory Board, Center for Mennonite Writing (Goshen College)
• Advisory Board, Journal of Mennonite Studies (University of Winnipeg)
• Advisory Board, Rhubarb magazine (Mennonite Literary Society)
• Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Guelph

Encyclopedia Articles

• “Reading and Publishing in Mennonite Communities,” in History of the Book in Canada (volume 2: 1840-1914), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 369-371.
• “Mennonite Writing in Canada,” in Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, ed. W.H. New. University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Reviews

• Review of Rudy Wiebe’s Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Toronto: Knopf, 2006) Great Plains Quarterly 28.2 (Spring 2008): 169.
• Review of Di Brandt’s so this is the world & here I am in it (Edmonton: NeWest Writers as Critics X, ed. Smaro Kamboureli, 2007) University of Toronto Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2008): 453-455.

Carol Ann Weaver
Associate Professor of Music

• Along with Rebecca Campbell performed at the CheonAn-Gak Won International Temple Music Festival in CheoAn, South Korea, October, 2007
• Along with Rebecca Campbell, performed Carol's Every Three Children in a special African AIDS awareness concert at Three Willows Church, Guelph, October 13, 2007.
• Travelled with Rebecca Campbell to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for another series of concerts in memory of the deaths of five Amish girls.
• World premiere of her orchestra piece, "Water", performed by the University of Waterloo orchestra, in commemoration of University of Waterloo's 50th anniversary.
• CD, Every 3 Children, officially released in a concert at Conrad Grebel Chapel, January 26, 2008.
• Led Music and Culture in South Africa travel coursein May 2008.

Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
Professor of Religious Studies (New Testament)

• "Anabaptist, the Bible, and Peace, " lecture given at Fuller Theological Seminary for Raddix, the Korean Anabaptist student association at Fuller, April 20, 2008.
• "Patient Pursuit: Peacemaking as Participation in the Patience of God,” Guest lecture at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, jointly sponsored by Anabaptist Perspectives and the Dean of the School of Theology, April 22, 2008.
• One of 25 invited participants in a colloquy at Laurelville Mennonite Center, entitled "Journeys with Jesis," October 17-19, 2008
• Two session radio interview re Jesus with “Church Matters,” Mennonite Church Canada (hosts Dan Dyck and Janet Plenert), July and August, 2008, at:
  http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/resourcecentre/FileDownload/10500/Episode22PodCast.mp3
• “Challenge at the Crossroads: Summoned and Sent,” concluding keynote address at Mennonite Church Canada/Mennonite Church USA People’s Summit, Winnipeg, MB (July 10, 2008), at: http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/resourcecentre/FileDownload/9481/TYN.mp3
• Canadian Mennonite Brethren Study Conference (sponsored by MB Board of Faith and Life), entitled “Confessing Jesus in a Pluralistic World” (3 presentations; Saskatoon, SK, Oct 15-17, 2009), at: http://www.mbconf.ca/home/events_and_conferences/learning_together/confessing_jesus_in_a_pluralistic_world
• Appointed  in 2009 to the General Council of Mennonite World Conference, as well as to its Faith and Life Commission.
• Mennonite Church Eastern Canada School for Ministers, “Who do you say that I am? Who do you say that you are?” (3 presentations; Conrad Grebel University College, February 16-18, 2010).
• Will be leading study tour hosted by Tourmagination and Conrad Grebel University College to Syria, Turkey, and Greece, entitled “Exploring the World of Paul,” May 4-20, 2011.

  Recent Publishing:

• Christus ist unser Friede: Die Kirche und ihr Ruf zu Wehrlosigkeit und Widerstand, Neufeld Verlag, April 2007.
• “Forbearance: Binding Loosely or Loose Bindings? Biblical-theological Reflections,” in Creed and Conscience: Essays in Honour of A. James Reimer, Pandora Press, 2007, pp. 27-43.
• Recovering Jesus: The Witness of the New Testament, Brazos, August, 2007.
• Mennonite Church Canada’s 2008 Season of Prayer materials, entitled Built to Last: Jesus Christ as Ground and Goal (5 part series).
• Willard M. Swartley, Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI/ Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2006) in Interpretation, October, 2007
• Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts (Eerdmans, 2007) Conrad Grebel Review 26/1, 2008, 133-35.
• “Ecclesiology and Policing: Who Calls the Shots?,” Conrad Grebel Review issue titled “Mennonites and Policing,” CGR 26/2, 2008, 91-101.
• “Jesus and the Bible,” with David Neufeld, in Jesus Matters: Good News for the 21st Century, James R. Krabill and David W. Shenk, eds., Scottdale, PA/Waterloo, ON: Herald Press, 2009, 49-61.
• “Weaver and Nonviolent Atonement: A Response,” Conrad Grebel Review (27/2, Spring, 2009), 31-38.
• Brad Jersak and Michael Hardin, eds., Stricken by God? Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ (Eerdmans, 2007) Mennonite Quarterly Review LXXXIII/1, January, 2009, 164-66.
• “My Journey with Jesus,” forthcoming (Herald Press) in the proceedings of the  “Journeys with Jesus” colloquy on Oct 17-19, 2008, at the Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, sponsored by the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society, Eastern Mennonite University.
• Present research and writing is focused on violence and the New Testament. Killing Enmity: Violence and the New Testament will be jointly published in 2011 by Baker Academic and SPCK.