After conducting interviews with current students in the Middle East in February 2012, reporter Andrew Jenner ’04 contacted alumni from earlier EMU-sponsored trips to the region. In comparing the ... read more about Six take-aways from Middle East sojourns
Lloyd Gingerich ’90 had never stepped out of the United States before his cross-cultural trip to Central America in 1988. His experiences in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras greatly affected ... read more about A highlight on Lloyd Gingerich: God wants us to take risks
When President Bill Clinton cracked a window open to Cuba, permitting scholars to apply for education-centered travel permits to Cuba from 1999 to 2003, EMU music professor Ken J. Nafziger ... read more about A highlight on Ken J. Nafziger: making music with appreciative Cubans
Cross-culturals are more than study abroad at Eastern Mennonite University. Graduates call the experiences “life-changing,” giving them the foundation they need to live, lead and serve in a global context. ... read more about Morocco cross-cultural semester
For the second straight season, the Eastern Mennonite women’s basketball team has earned an at-large berth in the NCAA National Tournament. The Royals will play against Christopher Newport University this ... read more about Women Earn At-Large NCAA Bid, Play CNU At Ferrum
More than 50 years after his first visit to campus, social activist and scholar Vincent Harding returned to EMU on Feb. 26 and 27, where he urged packed audiences to ... read more about Vincent Harding, close friend of MLK, urges EMU community to meet challenge of building a true democracy
Salim Munayer is a citizen of a small nation that casts a giant shadow on the world stage. Small enough to fit four within the borders of Virginia, the modern ... read more about Palestinian Christian tries to bridge divides separating Christian, Jewish and Muslim neighbors
Thirty years have passed since her days as a nurse in a war zone, but Ann Hershberger ’76 still has a sense of impending violence when she hears a helicopter ... read more about A highlight on Ann Hershberger
Tension between Israelis and Palestinians was quickly escalating when Linford Stutzman ’84 (Seminary ’90) traveled to the Middle East in the summer of 2000 to prepare for his first ... read more about
The weeks that Nathan Musselman ’00 spent in Palestine in 1998 during his cross-cultural to the Middle East, observing, experiencing and learning from people living under Israeli military occupation, made ... read more about Life Changed as Prisoner of Israel