Bryan Welch, CEO of B The Change Media and founder of Mother Earth News, comes to Harrisonburg to join in “Leading into the Common Good: An Anabaptist Perspective,” a conference ... read more about Entrepreneur Bryan Welch, founder of Mother Earth News, speaks at April’s Leading into the Common Good conference
About a year ago, Harrisonburg business owner Cam Murphy noticed a few cellphones missing from the kiosk he owned in the Valley Mall. The inventory just didn’t add up. So, ... read more about A Different Approach: restorative justice offers Harrisonburg police and the community alternative resolutions
Libby Hoffman returns to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), where she attended the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in 1996 and 2000, to talk about humanitarian aid and crisis response. Hoffman is co-founder ... read more about Peacebuilder draws attention to power of local networks to respond to humanitarian and public health crises
When Howard Zehr, now a distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), was working on his best-known book, Changing Lenses, in the ... read more about Global practitioners reflect on impact of Howard Zehr’s ‘Changing Lenses’ in international journal of restorative justice
A multi-year research project on domestic violence, under the direction of professor Carolyn Stauffer, will be highlighted in a community education symposium at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. The ... read more about ‘Conversations on Sexual Violence’ symposium aims to nurture community-building and resilience
In the fall of 1977, I was preparing to be a resident assistant in Northlawn residence hall. I needed to pick a Bible verse to be a theme for our ... read more about Lenten Reflections: Carmen Schrock-Hurst reflects on her journey with glaucoma and on walking ‘by faith, not by sight’
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) will host a prayer vigil for victims of the Hesston, Kansas shootings and for the Hesston community on Thursday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m. Hesston College, ... read more about Public invited to join a prayer vigil for Hesston community Thursday evening on campus
The keynote speech at a conference last December in the The Hague, the Netherlands, came from an unlikely pair of peacebuilders from the Phillipines. Deng Giguiento, a longtime peace trainer ... read more about CJP professor Lisa Schirch finishes first-of-a-kind curriculum to improve civilian-security sector relations
I felt as though I was washing away the desert sand of Iraq. —Michael King, seminary dean Darin Busé, a United Methodist pastor, came to Eastern Mennonite Seminary with ... read more about Lenten Reflections: A pacifist and a combat veteran are filled by the Holy Spirit at the footwashing bowl
The traveling history exhibit “Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery” is currently open at Eastern Mennonite University’s Campus Center through March 2. The discovery doctrine is a “philosophical and legal framework ... read more about Workshop, chapel and exhibit on ‘Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery’ highlight colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples