Riad Jarjour is a Syrian-Lebanese scholar, pastor and peacebuilder whose work has focused on Muslim-Christian relationships since the 1970s. On March 15 and 16, he visited Eastern Mennonite University to
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This article about Carl Geissinger ’82 is re-published with permission from Lancaster Farming. REEDSVILLE, Pa. A Mifflin County sheep shearer said he does not need any additional clients, but he
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Professor Adriana Rojas knows the demand for professional interpreters has increased in Harrisonburg. Rojas, who teaches Spanish at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), says she often receives emails asking for student
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The skills taught for 22 years at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute have always been relevant to people in the United States, but now they have a renewed significance.
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It had been two and a half weeks since President Trump’s executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for three months, suspending the U.S. Refugee
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“You are welcome here” is the emphatic message offered by Eastern Mennonite University students, faculty and staff in a new “blockbuster” video released just after President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
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Journalist, radio producer, professor and author Deborah Jian Lee will visit Eastern Mennonite University on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The 10 a.m. chapel in Lehman Auditorium and a 4 p.m. colloquium,
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Professor Emily Peck McClain joined with other clergywomen to send daily devotionals to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, both to support a fellow United Methodist and to acknowledge the work of Clinton and other women who have broken both glass ceilings and stained-glass ceilings. ... read more about In daily devotionals, clergywomen supported a fellow Methodist and celebrated the breaking of ‘stained-glass ceilings’ from United Methodist Church
From Washington D.C. to Colorado, demand for Immanuel Mennonite Church’s “Welcome Your Neighbor” sign has skyrocketed. The sign, with a distinctive tri-color banding, reads in three languages: No matter where
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