{"id":361,"date":"2011-06-08T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:19:20","slug":"rev-hescox-lauds-emu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2011\/06\/08\/rev-hescox-lauds-emu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Hescox Lauds EMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, president and CEO of the <a title=\"Evangelical Environmental Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creationcare.org\">Evangelical Environmental Network<\/a>, addressed a dozen audiences ranging from high school students to 20 area pastors in Harrisonburg, Va., Feb. 15-18, 2011. His venues included EMU, Eastern Mennonite High School, Common Good Marketplace, and Lilies and Sparrows Community. At EMU, Hescox spoke in seminary chapel and a noon luncheon, addressed a forum sponsored by the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society, interacted with two EMU classes, and met privately with President Loren Swartzentruber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing first hand EMU\u2019s efforts on the renewable energy solar panels installed on the library, [and] the academic efforts on sustainability and food security demonstrate EMU\u2019s\u00a0 understanding that Creation Care is a matter of life,\u201d Hescox wrote after his visit. \u201cEach kilowatt saved or produced renewably helps save a human life, and EMU lives this Biblical command to care for the least of these. Well done, EMU, President Loren Swartzendruber, professors, staff, students and entire community.\u201d \u2014 BPL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, addressed a dozen audiences ranging from high school students to 20 area pastors in Harrisonburg, Va., Feb. 15-18, 2011. His venues included EMU, Eastern Mennonite High School, Common Good Marketplace, and Lilies and Sparrows Community. At EMU, Hescox spoke in seminary chapel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[63,166,183],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","category-spring-2011","tag-evangelical-environmental-network","tag-rev-mitchell-c-hescox","tag-sustainability","issues-spring-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}