Bible students are different now than they were in the 1990s when Peter Dula was a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Students now, says Dula, Bible and religion department chair, want to “experiment” with what it means to be church and “dig deep into the meaning of Anabaptism, ...More
Professor of mission Linford Stutzman will lead a cross-cultural program via boat around the eastern Mediterranean in May 2012. The group will explore Athens, Ephesus, Corinth and many other sites of New Testament churches, usually traveling as the apostle Paul did in the Book of Acts. The trip, called ...More
HARRISONBURG, Va. – When Crystal Gosnell saw an email from Eastern Mennonite Seminary advertising an online course called “Cross-cultural Discipleship,” she knew she needed to take it. Gosnell cares for newborn infants and runs the education program in an orphanage in Nigeria. She is also a seminary student. Gosnel ...More
“May I see your photo ID, please?” Everyone entering Lehman Auditorium Wednesday morning, Apr. 23, for the final chapel of spring semester was asked to produce a personal identification or “please step aside.” Students in EMU’s semester-long Middle East program acted as border guards as people convened f ...More
EMU student John A. Tyson said he “had thought about it for some time and felt that the time and place were right.” And so, early on Easter Sunday, 2008, the EMU junior biblical studies and philosophy major from Lansdale, Pa., was baptized in the Jordan River into the community of faith. ...More
Thirty EMU students were commissioned during a chapel service Friday, Jan. 11 for a semester of study and learning in the Middle East and embarked later the same day. It is the fifth time for ...More
Eastern Menonite University professor Linford Stutzman sails into Pozzuoli, Italy, the final port of the voyage in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. Courtesy Photo By Luanne Austin, Daily New ...More
