Professor Kim Brenneman calls the cross-cultural experience “the ultimate classroom.” Most Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have participated in the program agree. Each semester and summer, EMU students spread out ... read more about The world as classroom: Faculty-staff panel discusses past, present and future of EMU’s unique cross-cultural program
How does a congregation or organization move “beyond hospitality to inclusion”? Professor David Brubaker has consulted on organizational development and conflict transformation in the U.S. and in a dozen other ... read more about David Brubaker: How does an organization move ‘beyond hospitality to inclusion’?
Drumbeats filled Martin Chapel Sunday afternoon to mark the beginning of the-post commencement “Celebration of Blessings” for graduates of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Shedding their gowns ... read more about CJP’s 25-strong class of 2017 includes peacebuilders from 11 states and nine countries, including first MA in RJ graduate
Missy Kauffman Schrock always knew she wanted a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Having worked business-related jobs on the side through high school and college, Schrock switched gears and got ... read more about Bluffton-hosted Collaborative MBA cohorts off and running
At the intersection of sustainable food production and racial justice work is Leah Penniman. Penniman, a farmer, educator and and co-owner of Soul Fire Farm, will visit Eastern Mennonite University ... read more about Soul Fire Farm co-owner to talk about working to end racism and injustice through sustainable food production
Experts broadly agree that mosquito nets are one of the best tools in the fight against malaria, to which the World Health Organization attributes hundreds of millions of illnesses each ... read more about Economic professor’s research challenges widely-held assumptions about malaria prevention
“You are welcome here” is the emphatic message offered by Eastern Mennonite University students, faculty and staff in a new “blockbuster” video released just after President Donald Trump’s travel ban. ... read more about EMU joins #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign with record-setting video
“If we lead out of our values, it will cost us something,” Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) told a packed crowd at Eastern Mennonite University on Sunday, Jan. 17. “But it ... read more about Delegate and businessman Sam Rasoul talks about listening, leadership and ‘living out your values’
“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 ... read more about Shalom-seeking in Flint, Michigan, with CJP grad Ryan Beuthin and his family
Franconia and Eastern District conferences of Mennonite Church USA will form a team to work with consultants David Brubaker and Roxy Kioko from Eastern Mennonite University, beginning in January, to explore reconciliation, with the possibility of becoming a reunited conference. ... read more about Brubaker and Kioko to act as consultants in facilitation of possible conference reunification from Mennonite World Review