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Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’

January 15, 2018Last updated January 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

In 1967, Sharon Washington Risher heard The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Charleston, South Carolina. Then a little girl, she remembers being summoned with a phone call

‘Trust in the Lord in your long journey’: Dedicated commuter students make weekly trek for seminary classes

January 12, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

David Gaylor commutes 320 miles round-trip to Eastern Mennonite Seminary each week, traveling from the south-central town of Martinsville and staying Tuesday and Wednesday night. In his second year of

Editor’s picks and top reads of 2017

January 9, 2018Last updated January 9, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

January brings the traditional review of the most-read news stories of 2017, many of which echoed themes of broader national interest. Our EMU News site is one of the most-visited on the

EMS awarded nearly $1 million grant by Lilly Endowment to support pastors, build ‘thriving ministries’ program

January 5, 2018Last updated January 10, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) has received a five-year grant of $999,900 from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of a national initiative to help clergy working in congregations thrive in their

Twila Yoder retires after 19 years as assistant to EMU’s presidents

January 1, 2018Last updated January 2, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

For 19 of the past 21 years, Twila King Yoder has served at Eastern Mennonite University as assistant to the president, including most recently, to the university’s newest one. Yoder

Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change

December 13, 2017Last updated December 15, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When African American civil rights activist Vincent Harding and his wife visited Meridian, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, they met Titus Bender for the first time. Bender, then a Mennonite

‘Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem’: Longtime cross-cultural leader Linford Stutzman on Trump’s U.S. embassy move

December 11, 2017Last updated December 18, 2017 by Linford Stutzman

My wife and I have led 13 groups of college students to the Middle East since 1991 as part of Eastern Mennonite University’s required cross-cultural program. During the semester-long immersive

Seminary’s School for Leadership Training ‘Broken Vessels, Thriving Pastor’ slated for January

November 30, 2017Last updated November 30, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The ministry model of clay jars can take several twists: Are ministers cracked pots? Crackpots? Broken vessels? Is their work – to use another Biblical metaphor – but the sowing

EMU Alumni and Friends Tour to Israel and Palestine will have ‘lifelong impact’

November 20, 2017Last updated December 7, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Before her recent Eastern Mennonite University Alumni and Friends Tour to Israel and Palestine, Betty Holsinger Shenk ’75 “knew it would be great.” It turned out, though, to be more

UCC pastor Steve Giddens, a dual-degree graduate student, served three tours in the Middle East

November 17, 2017Last updated November 21, 2017 by Ellie Potter/Daily News-Record

This article was published in the Nov. 10, 2017, issue of the Daily News-Record. Steve Giddens earned a Master of Divinity degree at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and will complete a

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