Eastern Mennonite University presented four Royal Awards for Staff Performance during fall semester 2021. The awardees are selected from nominations of staff or administrators who have shown exceptional performance, and/or ... read more about Royal Awards recognize exemplary EMU staff members Diane Farrar, Luke Litwiller, Stephanie Mason and Julie Siegfried
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford – author, professor, and global feminist and decolonial theories and theologies researcher – will visit Eastern Mennonite University March 29-30 as part of the annual Augsburger Lecture ... read more about Decolonial theories and theologies researcher to give Augsburger Lecture Series
Eastern Mennonite University announces two leadership transitions that highlight and strengthen the university’s core values of commitments to peacebuilding and diversity, equity and inclusion. Jayne Docherty, executive director and professor ... read more about EMU announces transitions at Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and executive leadership team
Rodrigue Makelele, a 2020 graduate of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was honored by the area United Way of Harrisonburg and Rocknigham as the 2022 Young Community Builder Award. ... read more about Rodrigue Makelele MA ’20 honored as U*Nite’s 2022 Young Community Builder
Eastern Mennonite University alumna Najla El Mangoush, foreign minister of Libya, will be among 12 women honored by the U.S. State Department for “extraordinary courage, strength and leadership in improving ... read more about Najla El Mangoush MA ‘15 honored with International Women of Courage Award
Howard Zehr, distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University, and co-author Barb Toews MA ‘00 will talk about their book “Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later” ... read more about Howard Zehr and Barb Toews MA ‘00 publish ‘Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later’
The Rev. Barbara Harrison Seward is the inaugural southern canon missioner in the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She began her ministry on Feb. 15, 2022. [Read the ... read more about Seminary grad appointed to inaugural position in Pennsylvania Episcopal diocese
The Eastern Mennonite Seminary community enters the season of Lent in prayer and fasting for the people of Ukraine. We deplore the Russian invasion of Ukraine and grieve the loss ... read more about Eastern Mennonite Seminary reflects on Ukraine as Lent opens
With the COVID-19 pandemic upsetting rituals and routines, many are seeking a new spiritual equilibrium. One new resource combining music, art, and liturgy for daily and weekly use is The ... read more about Anabaptist artists offer free faith formation resource for Lent, Easter, Pentecost
Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby have told their remarkable story of reconciliation and reparation 37 times in seven months across the country, with features in The Baltimore Sun, BBC ... read more about ‘Cousins’ authors return to Harrisonburg, EMU where their journey of racial reconciliation began