Katie Mansfield, lead trainer of EMU's STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) program, shares this blog post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s Welcoming EveryBODY: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. ... read more about STAR lead trainer urges churches to consider disability justice first from MCUSA
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) announced the establishment of the annual Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award, which will recognize and encourage courageous peacebuilders across the world. The award will be ... read more about Mennonite Central Committee establishes Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award
“You are the subject of your own research.” Listening to that inner voice sent Lisa Collins, EdD, on her own journey of autoethnography. Collins is co-teaching Strategies for Trauma Awareness ... read more about ‘Healing from Racial Trauma’: SPI instructor Lisa Collins shares how STAR training moved her forward
Lisa Schirch, the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Professor of the Practice in Peace Studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will be the first speaker in the ... read more about Lisa Schirch to speak on decolonializing peacebuilding at Summer Peacebuilding Institute
The day before acclaimed human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson gave the Commencement address at Eastern Mennonite University, 29 graduates of the university’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding gathered virtually for ... read more about CJP’s 29 peacebuilding graduates from the Class of ‘22 are ‘already changing the world’
More than 100 Eastern Mennonite University students were recognized for accomplishments and achievements during the 2021-22 academic year during a special recognition ceremony Tuesday. View the livestream recording. Academics Academic ... read more about EMU Honors, Awards and Recognitions – 2021-22
Eastern Mennonite University’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion announces the recipients of the inaugural Inclusive Excellence Grants. The program, which started this academic year, offers EMU faculty, staff, and ... read more about Office of DEI announces 2022 Inclusive Excellence Grant awardees
Reuben Jonathan Miller PhD, the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, is the keynote speaker for EMU’s Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Festival. Join us Wednesday, April 20, ... read more about ACE Festival keynote speaker Reuben Jonathan Miller to address mass incarceration
Zehr's new book Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later, checks in with individuals serving life sentences in Pennsylvania. The book is a sequel to his 1996 work Doing Life, which introduces the individuals and shares their stories. ... read more about Howard Zehr talks about his book “Still Doing Life” from WHSV TV-3
Though it’s only March, Bill Goldberg is already looking forward to the 2022 Summer Peacebuilding Institute this May and June with anticipation. After two years of online programming, SPI returns ... read more about Summer Peacebuilding Institute back in person with ‘all-star’ line-up of courses, instructors