You can’t refuse a peace chief. That’s the tantalizing start of an article about Professor Kimberly Schmidt and how she was drawn into the research behind her recently published young ... read more about How Kimberly Schmidt was drawn into the Cheyenne history surrounding her novel ‘Magpie’s Blanket’
In selecting artists for Eastern Mennonite University’s Centennial art installation, curator Ashley Sauder Miller ’03 and the Centennial Visual and Performing Arts Subcommittee sought a range of media, styles and ... read more about Artists use varied media to reflect on EMU past, present and future for Centennial installation
Rarely does a week go by without some invitation from the Peace Fellowship to join other students, faculty and the Eastern Mennonite University campus community in a vigil or other ... read more about EMU’s long-lived Peace Fellowship advocates for the presence of justice on and off campus
Austin Sachs, 19, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, couldn’t sit by idly watching the protests erupting at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota against the Dakota Access ... read more about Standing with the Standing Rock cause
Four faculty and staff at Eastern Mennonite University are interviewed in a documentary about the Protestant Reformation, This Changed Everything: 500 Years of Reformation. The documentary, released in September, is ... read more about Reformation documentary features four EMU experts on religion, history and peacebuilding
After Sept. 11, The Rev. Steven D. Martin found himself the subject of much interest. Suddenly every public television station was scrambling for material on Muslims, and his first major ... read more about Communications director for National Council of Churches shares his interfaith journey
Professor Katherine Bassard brings her expertise in African American literature to Eastern Mennonite University on Thursday, Nov. 10. She will give a presentation titled ‘Truly a Christian Act’: Freedom and ... read more about VCU professor, expert on African American women and the Bible to speak on ‘Sketches of Slave Life’
Harrisonburg City Public Schools has become a leader in Virginia for its approach to dual language learner education, says a new report from New America, a think tank and civic enterprise committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. Eastern Mennonite University alumni make up the bulk of the program's teachers. ... read more about Harrisonburg’s dual-language program and its many EMU-trained teachers recognized as state leader from New America
Poet Marci Rae Johnson visits Eastern Mennonite University for a 6:30 p.m. reading on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Common Grounds coffeehouse. This is the first Writers Read to be scheduled ... read more about Poet Marci Rae Johnson is the featured author at Writers Read during Homecoming and Family Weekend
Valley musicians in Musica Harmonica are headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in October to further encourage the intersectionality of music in the Americas. The group, composed of a violist ... read more about Musical Mends: musicians perform amid countries’ repairing relations