This spring, several Eastern Mennonite University faculty and staff, among them David Glanzer, are moving into retirement after many years of service. To acknowledge their deep commitment to our community, we’ve ... read more about Celebrating Service: Counseling program co-founder David Glanzer looks to sailing and the West for restoration and rejuvenation
Psychologist and author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal ... read more about ‘Emotional Intelligence’ author Dan Goleman joins EMU graduate counseling faculty to share latest research on focus
This year, several Eastern Mennonite University faculty and staff, among them Linda Lefever Alley, are moving into retirement after many years of service. To acknowledge their service and deep commitment ... read more about Celebrating Service: Linda Alley plans to move ‘more fully’ into callings as spiritual director, retreat leader and writer
More than 150 members of the Eastern Mennonite University and Eastern Mennonite Seminary community gathered in the campus center Wednesday for a Holy Week service around the “alfombra,” or carpet, ... read more about Latino Student Alliance’s beautiful ‘alfombra’ is the centerpiece for a Holy Week chapel service
Gift & Thrift and Booksavers of Virginia, the reclaimed goods stores benefiting Mennonite Central Committee, are about to grow. Officials with the businesses held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning to ... read more about Gift and Thrift and Booksavers, managed by alumna Deb King, set for $3.8M expansion
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