Why would an explicitly Christian university go out of its way to bring Muslim and Jewish scholars to its campus to teach entire courses and interact every day with students?
... read more about EMU’s Center for Interfaith Engagement promotes friendship and understanding among those who believe differently
On the Wikipedia page for “Security Sector Reform,” you’ll read some nice-sounding stuff about helping police and military forces become more accountable to democratically elected governments and to hold human
... read more about CJP prof Lisa Schirch points way to better relationships, roles, for military, government and civil society
Hundreds of people filled to capacity the 2014 School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, interested in exploring “discernment processes” to address difficult issues in congregations, conferences and denominations.
... read more about Congregational leaders flock to seminary program on how to do “discernment” in the face of difficult issues
Participants in the 2014 School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary did not tiptoe for three days around the “elephant in the room” – that is, the anguish felt
... read more about Worship in acknowledgment of the “elephant in the room”
As she boarded the first flight of her globe-circling journey, Jayne Docherty, PhD, program director at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), carried a clutch of certificates she would
... read more about First graduates of EMU’s Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program recognized in Somaliland ceremony
Jim Minick, author of the award-winning The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first
... read more about Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10
After 20 years in the business and non-profit sector, Jeff Barbour returned to college as a gray-haired student in the late 1990s. Today he is the newly elected treasurer of
... read more about Middle-aged adult-degree-completion grad becomes treasurer of historic city in Virginia
When civil rights leader Vincent Harding visited Eastern Mennonite University 52 years ago, he knew that Mennonites had refused to own slaves during the slavery era. But he was surprised
... read more about Friend, confidant, of Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at EMU – 52 years after first visit in segregated era
Her back pain began sometime during her sophomore year of high school. It wasn’t too bad at first, nothing out of the ordinary. Aches and pains are part of a
... read more about Pain and stubbornness put Hattie Berg on a now-loved path through EMU
Eastern Mennonite University MBA students collaborate with local businesses for real-life experience. Here, students report on work with Blue Ridge Architects.
... read more about MBA student collaboration with Harrisonburg business