After Bev Miller was institutionalized twice in the 1970s with bipolar disorder, not long after graduating from then-Eastern Mennonite College, a series of factors helped her to get back “in touch with reality,” as she calls it. For one, her family owned a business that employed her when no one else likely would. But the proper medications, a supportive network and her church all pla ...More
Everence Financial and Eastern Mennonite to cosponsor upcoming event Spaces are filling up fast for this year’s School for Leadership Training (SLT) January 16-18, 2012 at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Plenary speaker Walter Brueggemann, and workshops on the theme “God and Mammon: Reframing Stewardship Amidst Abundance, Scarcity and Conflict” are contributing to an unpr ...More
‘We need to distinguish the kingdom of the world from the kingdom of God,’ said Dr. Greg Boyd, an internationally known speaker and author, throughout the seminary’s annual School for Leadership Training. Read more… ...More
Some 220 pastors and lay leaders attending the conference Jan. 19-22 at Eastern Mennonite Seminary heard messages on cultural change, engaging media, and race relations just as tens of thousands traveled to nearby D.C. for the inauguration of the country’s first African-American president. Read more… ...More
How does the pervasive and changing electronic media distract and enamor us to the point of shaping how we think and act, often without our awareness? Shane Hipps (www.shanehipps.com) of Phoenix, Ariz., believes there is great promise as wel ...More
