Though surely all professors at Eastern Mennonite University were excited by the inaugural Academic and Creative Excellence Festival on campus last week, new faculty member Sonia Balasch Rodriguez was
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Timothy Seidel, assistant professor of international development at Eastern Mennonite University, has been selected from a competitive, national pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching
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Since losing two childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, Fania Davis has dedicated her life to social justice advocacy, becoming a civil rights attorney and
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In early February, 20 scholars from five leading Iraqi universities and a representative from Iraq’s Ministry of Education gathered in Beirut, Lebanon, for a five-day training on conflict analysis. The
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On the occasion of its 100th commencement ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University announces that the 2018 address will be given by alumna and 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee. In recognition
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Seven graduate students from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding have been selected to present at the 2018 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference April 13-14 in South Bend,
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A black woman and a white man have been on what they call “a healing journey.” They have written a book that describes her as a “daughter of slavery” and him as “a son of the slave trade.”
“You have to tell the truth, even when it gets ugly,” says Sharon Leslie Morgan. She wrote a book with Thomas Norman DeWolf about their physical, emotional, and spiritual journey uncovering their roots on either side of the slave trade.
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Eastern Mennonite University will join a global bell-tolling ceremony on Wednesday, April 4, to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the
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Significant progress has been made towards an endowed scholarship at Eastern Mennonite University to honor the memory of peacebuilder Michael Jesse “M.J.” Sharp ’05, who was ambushed and murdered in
... read more about One year after his death, M.J. Sharp’s legacy lives on in growing scholarship fund
As part of its year-long Centennial celebration, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement will host a roundtable on interfaith collaboration. One focus of the discussion will be on how building
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