Gift & Thrift and Booksavers of Virginia, the reclaimed goods stores benefiting Mennonite Central Committee, are about to grow. Officials with the businesses held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning to ... read more about Gift and Thrift and Booksavers, managed by alumna Deb King, set for $3.8M expansion
Bryan Welch, CEO of B The Change Media and founder of Mother Earth News, comes to Harrisonburg to join in “Leading into the Common Good: An Anabaptist Perspective,” a conference ... read more about Entrepreneur Bryan Welch, founder of Mother Earth News, speaks at April’s Leading into the Common Good conference
After a deaf friend shared that deaf people often feel socially isolated and marginalized by the hearing community, Jessie Wheatley applied what she’d learned in the past four years of ... read more about Independent research projects land invitations for nine senior psychology majors to attend a state conference
Spiritual Life Week is an annual tradition at Eastern Mennonite University – a rich diversity of opportunities for the campus community to join together in various forums to share about ... read more about Faculty and staff open homes and hearts during EMU’s annual Spiritual Life Week
About a year ago, Harrisonburg business owner Cam Murphy noticed a few cellphones missing from the kiosk he owned in the Valley Mall. The inventory just didn’t add up. So, ... read more about A Different Approach: restorative justice offers Harrisonburg police and the community alternative resolutions
Few things permeate American culture like sports; successful collegiate athletes are even dubbed “All-American.” The American Alliance of Health, Physical Education and Recreation recommends children get a minimum of 30 ... read more about In his new book ‘Overplayed,’ athletic director Dave King advises parents trying to stay sane and supportive of young athletes
Hollyn Slykhuis and Laura Ruple, both seniors at Harrisonburg High School, are the featured soloists at the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony’s spring concert. Ruple, who plays the oboe, and Slykhuis, ... read more about Harrisonburg High seniors to solo in Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony spring concert
Libby Hoffman returns to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), where she attended the Summer Peacebuilding Institute in 1996 and 2000, to talk about humanitarian aid and crisis response. Hoffman is co-founder ... read more about Peacebuilder draws attention to power of local networks to respond to humanitarian and public health crises
When Howard Zehr, now a distinguished professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), was working on his best-known book, Changing Lenses, in the ... read more about Global practitioners reflect on impact of Howard Zehr’s ‘Changing Lenses’ in international journal of restorative justice
A multi-year research project on domestic violence, under the direction of professor Carolyn Stauffer, will be highlighted in a community education symposium at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. The ... read more about ‘Conversations on Sexual Violence’ symposium aims to nurture community-building and resilience