Kevin King '81, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, participates in a PeaceLab podcast from Texas. King was part of an assessment team in Texas last week beginning to assess damage from Tropical Storm Harvey. ... read more about Kevin King ’81, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, is on site in Texas after Tropical Storm Harvey from PeaceLab
Twenty years ago, Howard Zehr published "Doing Life," a book of photos and interviews of nearly 60 lifers in Pennsylvania prisons. He’s been revisiting about two dozen of those men and women in preparation for a follow-up, which he’s calling “Coping with Life.” ... read more about Twenty years later, photographer and author Howard Zehr revisits people serving life sentences from WMRA/NPR
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomes twelve new faculty for the 2017-18 academic year. The new faculty, announced by Fred Kniss, provost, Sue Cockley, interim dean of the School of Graduate ... read more about EMU welcomes twelve faculty members for 2017-18 academic year
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015) is the 2017-18 Common Read selection for Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Each year since 2013, faculty, staff, and students ... read more about Common Read selection ‘Between the World and Me’ a challenging invitation
Melody Pannell, professor of social work, is concerned about what happens to African American Mennonites when they do engage and contribute—what happens to them as people. ... read more about Anabaptist Historians features Melody Pannell: ‘Telling All of Our Stories as a Movement To Peace’ from Anabaptist Historians
Eastern Mennonite University’s roots trace back to 1917, when Eastern Mennonite School opened in Harrisonburg in a former resort hotel known as The White House. Through the last 100 years, ... read more about Convocation and Centennial year kick-off celebration draws a crowd
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) celebrated its centennial year convocation Wednesday at Lehman Auditorium on Wednesday. President Susan Schultz Huxman offered the keynote address, with three presidents emeriti seated with faculty ... read more about EMU ushers in centennial year with fall convocation
Interim dean Fred Kniss has been spending his commute time to Eastern Mennonite Seminary listening to his “much too large” CD collection rather than tuning in to the morning and ... read more about Convocation affirms seminary as an anchoring community of abundant hope
Eastern Mennonite University students return with excitement for a new school year in which EMU will celebrate its Centennial. Welcome back students! http://http://emu.edu/centennial ... read more about 2017 Orientation and Move In!
Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend is fast approaching. This fall is a special opportunity to celebrate EMU’s Centennial … 100 years of dynamic, countercultural, Anabaptist education. While commissioned ... read more about Saturday afternoon at Centennial Homecoming and Family Weekend is packed with special events