EMU’s campus community entered into a wave of critical discussions about faith, race, and gender this semester. Three book clubs emerged independently, while yet another reading group and a film
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Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a former visiting scholar with the Center for Interfaith Engagement, returns to Eastern Mennonite University as the keynote speaker for the 2021 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE)
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“Community organizing is fundamentally a project of power-building within and among groups of people marginalized from existing power structures,” says Professor Ryan Good, co-director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center
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Ten graduating seniors are the 2021 Cords of Distinction recipients. They will receive blue and gold cords signifying their achievement to wear with other academic regalia to the Cords of
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With a year of COVID experience and lots of new livestreaming equipment, music departments are offering recorded and outdoor performances to churches for use in recorded or livestreamed Sunday services. Anabaptist World surveys EMU and other Mennonite colleges and universities for their contributions.
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This article was published Feb. 13, 2021, in the Daily News-Record. Sarah and Benjamin Bixler, co-owners of the Lincoln Homestead north of Harrisonburg, are EMU alumni and faculty. Sarah, a
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Jerry Holsopple, professor of visual and communication arts at Eastern Mennonite University, was recently awarded a Vital Worship Grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. He and co-applicant Rebecca
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Faculty, staff, students and members of the broader community joined Sarah Bixler, instructor at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, for her Oct. 20 service of ministerial ordination in Virginia Mennonite Conference. The
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Peter Dula is professor of religion and culture at Eastern Mennonite University. He worked with MCC in Iraq from 2004-2006.
... read more about Peter Dula on ‘Peacebuilding as presence: MCC assignments in “enemy” contexts’ from MCC Intersections
Chester Lehman Wenger ‘36, who with his late wife Sara Jane Weaver ’42, shared a special Centennial Award at Eastern Mennonite University in 2017, died Oct. 1, 2020, at his
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