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‘Let Your Life Speak’: Fall/Winter 2016 Crossroads features alumni empowering neighbors in multicultural U.S.

December 22, 2016Last updated June 20, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

The fall/winter 2016 issue of Crossroads focuses on Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have made conscious choices, whether vocational or avocational, to work in multicultural settings as advocates for social

Shalom-seeking in Flint, Michigan, with CJP grad Ryan Beuthin and his family

December 13, 2016Last updated January 3, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

“Flint is complicated.” Ryan Beuthin drives two visitors through the Mott Park neighborhood in Flint, Michigan. Though clean and wide, the streets are flanked by decrepit, abandoned homes, vacant grassy

Multiple CJP alumni and faculty collaborate on UNDP-funded project in Iraq

December 12, 2016Last updated December 12, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

Ahmed Tarik was 15 and barely out of ninth grade when his family fled Baghdad for Syria. It was 2006, and no longer safe to remain in the city where

EMU’s Advent greeting features student composer and beauty of Shenandoah Valley

December 9, 2016Last updated December 9, 2016 by EMU communications staff

“With deep division in our country and around the world this year’s Advent greeting provides an opportunity to reflect on God’s unfailing love, and the joy brought by the birth

Shaped by her country’s conflict, Colombian Diana Tovar leads CJP’s new networking efforts

December 6, 2016Last updated December 9, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi with Lauren Jefferson

In early October, Diana Tovar nearly missed a meeting with colleagues to talk about her new position as the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding’s new peacebuilding network coordinator. In a

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding hires first alumni networking coordinator

December 6, 2016Last updated July 19, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson and Randi B. Hagi

With nearly 600 alumni scattered around the world and networking among its graduates one of the benefits of joining the community, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP)

Restorative justice retreat draws law enforcement practitioners for networking, resources and planning

November 21, 2016Last updated November 23, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Representatives from six police departments across the country attended a law enforcement retreat on restorative justice Nov. 11-13 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. The retreat was co-hosted by the Harrisonburg (Virginia) Police

Former VACA professor of Mohawk heritage now providing media coverage of Standing Rock activists

November 18, 2016Last updated September 10, 2018 by Randi B. Hagi

It’s Paulette, coming live to you from Cannonball, North Dakota, and I’m at the sacred defenders’, the Water Defenders’ camp. And it’s early-early. I’m just waiting for the sun to

Reformation documentary features four EMU experts on religion, history and peacebuilding

November 11, 2016Last updated March 28, 2017 by Randi B. Hagi

Four faculty and staff at Eastern Mennonite University are interviewed in a documentary about the Protestant Reformation, This Changed Everything: 500 Years of Reformation. The documentary, released in September, is

Communications director for National Council of Churches shares his interfaith journey

November 9, 2016Last updated November 18, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

After Sept. 11, The Rev. Steven D. Martin found himself the subject of much interest. Suddenly every public television station was scrambling for material on Muslims, and his first major

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