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
... read more about ‘Welcome Your Neighbor’ sign continues to spread around the nation, to the delight of its creators at Immanuel Mennonite Church
“Some of us are more knowledgeable about what is happening with people 6,000 miles away, people we’ve never met, than what is happening with our neighbors,” said Professor David Evans
... read more about School for Leadership Training addresses pastoral responses to a racialized and divided America
When Jonathan Swartz thinks of residence life at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), he thinks of the idea behind home, a space from which and in which students learn, grow and
... read more about Jonathan Swartz named first director of residence life, student accountability and restorative justice
In her sermon to mark the start of the spring semester Jan. 10, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) Associate Dean Nancy Heisey asked the audience to recall the deeply personal experience
... read more about Convocation reminds seminary community that baptism is the beginning of ‘Spirit-filled’ discipleship
The fall/winter 2016 issue of Crossroads focuses on Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have made conscious choices, whether vocational or avocational, to work in multicultural settings as advocates for social
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NPR reporter and Harrisonburg native Camila Domonske shares about the welcoming sign created by Matt Bucher, a seminary graduate and pastor at Immanuel Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Va., that is spreading around the country. ... read more about A message of tolerance and welcome, spreading from yard to yard from NPR
Ruth Njika serves as assistant youth pastor, church leader, and assistant praise and worship team leader in a Hyattsville, Maryland, church with 50 members hailing primarily from West Africa. An
... read more about Pastoral leaders STEP up their potential in first Washington D.C. cohort of ministry training program
On a Sunday morning this past July, four American children entered a church in Bumangi, Tanzania. They were welcomed as family, embraced, and given gifts of intricately woven East African
... read more about David and Grace Shenk and the footprints of an 80-year missions legacy in East Africa
In a photo taken outside the Women Doing Theology Conference last month, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) Lancaster student Karyn Nancarvis flexes her muscles and grins. Nancarvis attended the conference in Leesburg,
... read more about Scholars from Harrisonburg and Lancaster campuses attend ‘Women Doing Theology’ conference