For Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity to flourish and expand rather than another cancelled event. SPI Online 2020 is slated for a ... read more about SPI 2020 goes online
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Peacebuilder Podcast: “Colorizing Restorative Justice” with Johonna Turner
Johonna Turner, assistant professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), is the featured guest of episode six of the Peacebuilder podcast. Turner speaks ... read more about Peacebuilder Podcast: “Colorizing Restorative Justice” with Johonna Turner
EMU announces 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients
Ten graduating seniors are the 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients. They will wear blue and gold cords signifying their achievement during the 2020 Commencement, tentatively scheduled for fall 2020. More ... read more about EMU announces 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients
Just in time for Easter, wildflowers emerge in Park Woods
This spring, as Ervie Glick continued his daily work of battling invasive species in Park Woods, he was delighted to see on the forest floor wildflowers blooming in dappled sunlight. ... read more about Just in time for Easter, wildflowers emerge in Park Woods
LovEMU Day 2020 sets new records!
With help from rallying donors across all 50 states and an impromptu head-shaving challenge, EMU’s fourth annual LovEMU Giving Day on April 8 raised a record $214,683 from 732 gifts. ... read more about LovEMU Day 2020 sets new records!
Seminary’s first online gathering for pastors helps to foster connection and innovation among pandemic challenges
As the social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic caused increasing challenges to those in the ministry, Eastern Mennonite Seminary instructor Sarah Bixler began to sense a need for connection among ... read more about Seminary’s first online gathering for pastors helps to foster connection and innovation among pandemic challenges
EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift
Looking back over the last few weeks, Professor Linda Gnagey thinks about one meeting as particularly fortuitous. As director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Academic Success Center, Gnagey recruits, trains and ... read more about EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift
NYT: Holmes County Amish, with former VP Jim Smucker, mobilize ‘Operation Stop Covid-19’
Here's a New York Times article on how lumber and goods company Keim in Sugarcreek, Ohio, has helped to mobilize Holmes County Amish in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A quote from Jim Smucker, past EMU administrator and now president of Keim, wraps up the story: “We’re a very individualistic society and the Amish have a lot to teach us about community...I think the shift has got to go from ‘I,’ to ‘we.’” ... read more about NYT: Holmes County Amish, with former VP Jim Smucker, mobilize ‘Operation Stop Covid-19’ from New York Times
In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’
Here my goal is to assist students in naming the way God is calling them to help shape the history they are living. To name such a calling is to ... read more about In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’
Mennonite communities contribute masks with help from Phil Helmuth ’76 and Mennonite Disaster Service
Phil Helmuth ’76, volunteer development coordinator with Mennonite Disaster Services, helped to coordinate production of homemade masks for first responders in Harrisonburg. The masks were donated to the Harrisonburg Fire ... read more about Mennonite communities contribute masks with help from Phil Helmuth ’76 and Mennonite Disaster Service