Seminary

Ripple Church pastors find spiritual nourishment at seminary’s Summer Institute for Spiritual Formation

by Lauren Jefferson

Imagine hearing the call to urban ministry, selling your lovingly renovated suburban farmhouse where you’ve lived for 25 years, and moving into an inner city apartment. Imagine your congregation shape-shifting
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Seminary graduates’ capstone research projects reflect learning, act as practical resources for future ministry

by Laura Amstutz and Lauren Jefferson

On a Sunday afternoon about four years ago, Matthew Bucher was reading as diligently as any first-year graduate student at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. When he was invited to a picnic
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Experienced administrators provide leadership in new associate provost and director of operations positions at EMU Lancaster

by Lauren Jefferson

Counselor, professor and administrator Mary Jensen was recently named associate provost of Eastern Mennonite University’s Lancaster site, which serves approximately 1,000 students in nursing, pastoral studies and graduate education programs.
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Eastern Mennonite Missions president discusses challenges of global mission engagement in Augsburger Lecture series

by Lauren Jefferson

To explain the dramatic changes in missions engagement over the last half-century, Nelson Okanya, MDiv ’03, president of Eastern Mennonite Missions, utilizes a stark image: a sturdy bridge, spanning a
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Church leaders discuss challenges of ministering to ‘nones’ and millenials at annual School for Leadership Training

by Laura Amstutz

Author, scholar and Episcopal priest Lauren Winner opened the annual School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary with succinct advice for those seeking to understand the changing dynamics affecting
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Teaching sacramental theology in a Mennonite seminary: Descendants of John and Charles Wesley engage descendants of Menno Simons and Ulrich Zwingli and live to tell about it!

by Daniel L. Garrett

Eastern Mennonite Seminary provides this reflection by former professor Daniel L. Garrett for use in public settings such as worship, Bible studies or Sunday school. Please give credit to the author
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