At Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, learning to understand the difference between chronic and traumatic stress is the first step in a training program called Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), said director Katie Mansfield. ... read more about ‘What is moral injury?’ Big Questions Online essay includes STAR training, interview with Director Katie Mansfield from Big Questions Online
Holly Scott is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Mennonite University and a native of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of Younger Than That Now: the Politics of Age in the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016). ... read more about History professor Holly Scott on how ‘We’re Shifting from Protest to Resistance – Just Like People Did in the 60s.’ from History News Network
October 15, 1917, was the first day of classes at the new Eastern Mennonite School located in a rented hotel near Harrisonburg, Virginia. One hundred years later to the day, ... read more about Centennial worship offers thanks for 100 years of blessings and a call to listen
A record crowd of nearly 450 attended the donor banquet Friday evening at Eastern Mennonite University’s Centennial Homecoming and Family Weekend. Vice President for Advancement Kirk Shisler said the event ... read more about Annual donor banquet thanks ‘mission-makers’ and ‘third-way kingdom-builders’
Friday afternoon’s Presidential Forum at Eastern Mennonite University’s MainStage Theater offered a rare opportunity to hear from four leaders: three who have led the institution through major cultural and curricular ... read more about Spanning nearly 50 years of institutional leadership, EMC/EMU presidents emeriti reminisce
The five artists who contributed to Eastern Mennonite University’s Centennial art installation offered new perspectives — 500 of them — on the theme “Serving, Leading, Transforming.” Exhibited in the Margaret ... read more about 10x10x100 Centennial artists offer 500 new perspectives on EMU
They’d wanted audiences to laugh, reflect, feel goosebumps, pause, celebrate and sing — and that’s exactly what happened at the two performances of What we bring. What we take. What ... read more about Centennial play by Swartz and DeSanctis, with troupe of alumni actors, delivers reflection and affirmation
When Eastern Mennonite University commissioned scholar Donald Kraybill to write a book about the school’s first 100 years, he said he wanted poetic license to look at the history through a sociological and theological lens. What emerged is a book that exposes the school’s warts as well as its highlights. ... read more about Donald Kraybill’s book chronicling Eastern Mennonite University exposes a sometimes messy history from Lancaster Online
John and Jennifer Murch and their four children of Linville headed up the homemade glazed doughnut-making for a second year. More than 18,000 of the confectionery delights sold. ... read more about Jennifer Murch ’97 blogs about the great donut-making extravaganza of the 2017 Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale from Jennifer Murch
A new symbol of nonviolence is the latest artistic addition to the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) campus. “Guns Into Plowshares,” a 16-foot-tall, 4-ton sculpture depicting a plow covered with more ... read more about Forging peace: ‘Guns Into Plowshares’ sculpture dedicated at EMU