“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,
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Congregations must grapple with the contentious times in which we live. Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s 2017 School for Leadership Training (SLT) will speak to divisions of race, power, privilege and ideology—and
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Franconia and Eastern District conferences of Mennonite Church USA will form a team to work with consultants David Brubaker and Roxy Kioko from Eastern Mennonite University, beginning in January, to explore reconciliation, with the possibility of becoming a reunited conference. ... read more about Brubaker and Kioko to act as consultants in facilitation of possible conference reunification from Mennonite World Review