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 ... read more about ‘Expanding the Legacy, Enlarging the Tent’: Annual faculty-staff conference draws community to Centennial themes
As news of the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally reverberated out of Charlottesville, Eastern Mennonite University — located 60 miles over Afton Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley — and ... read more about EMS alumna leads clergy protest in Charlottesville; EMU community members join activism
“Ministry” can take many forms and happen in many contexts: preaching and pastoral care in a church, yes, but also serving firefighters, pursuing restorative justice, leading music and offering spiritual ... read more about New seminary degree trains leaders for ever-broadening spectrum of roles and contexts
When Chester Wenger ’36 became acquainted with Sara Jane Weaver ’42, he found her “so beautiful and loveable I couldn’t resist,” he said with a twinkle in his eye. Something ... read more about Centennial Award recipients Chester and Sara Jane Wenger honored for ‘rich lives of service, leadership and faith’
Madalynn Payne didn’t bring to the cradle of Anabaptism this past summer the same lineage as some of her Eastern Mennonite University peers. The daughter of parents who joined the ... read more about European cross-cultural experience examines women’s Reformation history
On Monday, July 24 the U.S. House of Representatives voted down S. 114, a bill that many veterans opposed. One veteran from Harrisonburg spoke to reporters Monday against the House bill, as WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports. ... read more about Evan Knappenberger ’15 among veterans who oppose VA bill, which fails in House from WMRA
On a fall morning in 1978, Leonard Dow left his home in working class Philadelphia and arrived at the expansive, picturesque campus of Christopher Dock Mennonite High School in Lansdale, ... read more about Leonard Dow ’87 to be honored with EMU’s Distinguished Service Award
Facilitator Catherine Barnes, a professor at Eastern Mennonite University, aided in discussions with more than 500 delegates and 100 others around the future of the church at the July 6-8 MC USA convention. ... read more about Future Church Summit, facilitated by EMU professor, deliberates on guide for discernment from Mennonite World Review
After 12 years at Eastern Mennonite Seminary Lancaster, administrator and professor Mark Wenger writes about returning to congregational ministry. ... read more about In ‘Matters of Faith’ column, Mark Wenger writes about the decision to return to congregational ministry from Lancaster Online