Nate Yoder (Deceased)

POSITION: Professor Emeritus/Seminary

DEPARTMENT: Emeriti

Nathan Emerson Yoder served for more than 20 years as a professor of church history, in that time directing the MA in Religion program and the MA in Church Leadership programs. In addition to church history, he taught courses in spiritual formation. From 2005-17, Yoder was also the university archivist, a time that culminated in considerable assistance and support to historian Don Kraybill as he wrote EMU's centennial history.

He was a former pastor of Dayton Mennonite Church and a member of Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church.

Scholarly Presentations and Abstracts
- “The Conservative Mennonite Conference: A Case in Self-identified Evangelical Anabaptism,” paper presented to a symposium on Brethren evangelicalism: “Should Brethren and Mainstream Evangelicalism Be Different?” sponsored by the Forum for Brethren Studies, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia, 20 March 2015.
- “Toward Definitions that Enhance Understanding and Conversation: conservative as a Case Study,” lunchtime colloquium, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, 29 October 2014.
Other Presentations
- “Call and Responsibility – Sabbath, Submission, and Integrity (Deuteronomy 8:11, 17-18a, Philippians 1:12-14).” Baccalaureate address, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, 24 April 2015.
- “Historical and Theological Framework,” presentation to a Virginia Mennonite Conference Credentialed Leaders Consultation on “Baptism and Memberships – Congregation, Conference, and Denomination: Powhatan (Virginia) Mennonite Church, 2 May 2014.
Church, Community and Professional Service
- Board of Directors. Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1999-2005, 2010-present.
- Ordained minister, Virginia Mennonite Conference.
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Co-proposer, grant from the Marpeck Deans Fund, supporting the meeting of the Mennonite College / University Archives Network, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, 10-11 October 2013.
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Church History
- American Historical Association
Professional Conferences Attended
- Meeting of the Southeastern Colloquium for American Religious Studies, for discussion of the draft of a book chapter titled, “Womanhood is Sisterhood,” by Mary Henold, Roanoke (Virginia) College (focusing on Catholic laywomen’s groups and their responses to the Second Vatican Council and the Women’s Liberation Movement), at Bridgewater College, 21 March 2014.
- Virginia Mennonite Conference Credentialed Leaders Consultation on The Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, Waynesboro (Virginia) Mennonite Church, 8 November 2013.
- Professional Retreat, Mennonite College / University Archivists Network (MCAN), Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, 10-11 October 2013.
EMU Service
- Director, Master of Arts in Religion, 1995-
- Director, Master of Arts in Church Leadership program, 2010-
- University Archivist, 2005-
- Centennial History Advisory Committee, 2011-
- University Writing Committee, 2007-

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