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EMU preps multi-talented Chilean alumni for doctoral religious studies, peacebuilding dialogue in the Jewish community

October 6, 2017Last updated October 9, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

When Channah Fonseca-Quezada and David Quezada talk about their personal journeys that have merged and taken them from their native Chile to the United States and now to Canada, one

ACRS book series finale features stories of the often surprising results of service

September 26, 2017Last updated October 13, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The fourth and final volume in the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society (ACRS) series The Geography of Our Faith will be released during the October 13-15 Centennial Homecoming and

Book publication crowns career of seminary’s most tenured teacher and scholar

September 21, 2017Last updated August 15, 2018 by David Doremus

In her new book, The Irony of Power: The Politics of God in Matthew’s Narrative (Pickwick, 2017), Dorothy Jean Weaver, professor of New Testament at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, brings together

First Bible class offerings grow into Eastern Mennonite Seminary: a short history

September 12, 2017Last updated September 18, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When Eastern Mennonite Seminary needed to raise funds for a new building in the late ’80s, students stepped up as they had in times of past need: with an auction.

Common Read selection ‘Between the World and Me’ a challenging invitation

September 1, 2017Last updated September 7, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015) is the 2017-18 Common Read selection for Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Each year since 2013, faculty, staff, and students

Convocation affirms seminary as an anchoring community of abundant hope

August 30, 2017Last updated September 5, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Interim dean Fred Kniss has been spending his commute time to Eastern Mennonite Seminary listening to his “much too large” CD collection rather than tuning in to the morning and

EMU Centennial Arts and Lectures Calendar Fall 2017

August 21, 2017Last updated September 1, 2017 by admin

Events are subject to change at any time. To see most current details and further information about events, please visit the EMU events calendar at www.emu.edu/events September Sept. 14 –

The world as classroom: Faculty-staff panel discusses past, present and future of EMU’s unique cross-cultural program

August 21, 2017Last updated August 22, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

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

EMU President Susan Schultz Huxman responds to aftermath of events in Charlottesville, Virginia

August 17, 2017Last updated August 30, 2017 by admin

Today, as a campus community committed to extending the peace of Jesus Christ, we stand in sympathy and in solidarity with our brothers and sisters caught up in the ugly,

‘Expanding the Legacy, Enlarging the Tent’: Annual faculty-staff conference draws community to Centennial themes

August 17, 2017Last updated August 21, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University faculty and staff dipped their hands into bowls of water as they received a blessing on their work for the coming year. The sacred ritual concluded the

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