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Desire to address, heal, traumatic legacy of U.S. slavery sparks growth in Coming to the Table group

June 5, 2014Last updated June 25, 2014 by David Yoder

Sessions at Coming to the Table are rarely easy. Despite the time separating current Americans from the era of legal slavery in the United States, the wounds of racial injustice

EMU mourns death of Vincent Harding, a Mennonite compatriot of MLK, a friend to all oppressed peoples

May 20, 2014Last updated June 11, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Eastern Mennonite University joins millions of people worldwide in grieving the passing of Vincent Harding, sorrowing that we will no longer hear his prophetic voice in person – reminding us

Mennonite pastor and Obama appointee David Myers reflects on church-state separation during visit to EMU

April 16, 2014Last updated June 11, 2014 by Paul Souder

Lots of director-level appointees work for the federal government. Of that number, a relatively few have the word Reverend on their business cards, and fewer still – perhaps only one

Vincent Harding, close friend of MLK, urges EMU community to meet challenge of building a true democracy

March 4, 2014Last updated September 22, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

More than 50 years after his first visit to campus, social activist and scholar Vincent Harding returned to EMU on Feb. 26 and 27, where he urged packed audiences to

‘Shenandoah Confession’ emerges from 2014 intercollegiate peace meeting, in spirit of 1527 Schleitheim Confession

February 28, 2014Last updated June 11, 2014 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Students from seven Anabaptist colleges wrapped up a three-day Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship Conference, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2014, at Eastern Mennonite University by deciding to issue the Shenandoah Confession, drafted in

Friend, confidant, of Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at EMU – 52 years after first visit in segregated era

February 3, 2014Last updated February 17, 2014 by Steve Shenk

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

Historic Peace Oak in France Is Source of Sapling at EMU

July 29, 2013Last updated June 11, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

In the closing years of the 18th century, the Mennonites in Salm – an isolated community in the Vosges Mountains in modern-day Alsace, France – were facing a familiar predicament.

Students Earn Credits Off Campus, Learning in New Ways and New Places

May 15, 2013Last updated September 18, 2014 by Steve Shenk

Bekah Enns’ great-grandparents would not recognize the way she is pursuing an academic degree in 2013. For one thing, the senior history major at Eastern Mennonite University spent last semester

EMU Welcomes Eastern American Studies Association Conference

March 22, 2013Last updated September 17, 2014 by

EMU is pleased to host nearly 100 historians from more than 25 colleges and universities for the annual Eastern American Studies Association Conference March 22 and 23. The American Studies

Couple Competes Separately, Wins Together

May 25, 2012Last updated June 18, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

What do you do with old research papers? If you are Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) graduates Kaitlin Heatwole and Nathan Hershberger, you submit it to a competition and win $500

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