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Dean David Brubaker to give keynote at faith-based conflict transformation conference in Scotland

August 26, 2019Last updated August 26, 2019 by EMU communications

In October 2019 , Place for Hope and its partners, including the Church of Scotland’s Glasgow Presbytery team, will host the “Gathering in Glasgow on Conflict and Faith” at the

EMU professors, graduates attend Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival in The Netherlands

August 26, 2019Last updated August 29, 2019 by Jan Willem Stenvers / Mennonite World Review

The second Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, held June 27-30 in the Netherlands, drew more than 200 peacebuilders, including Bible, religion and theology professor and Peace Commission secretary Andrew

A dispatch from Cape Town: Students share from the South Africa cross-cultural

August 21, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

EMU students scattered across the globe on summer cross-culturals to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and South Africa. The cross-cultural experience has been a key component of EMU’s core curriculum

‘Real joy’ in improving lives through labor law: Amy Rosenberger ’85

August 12, 2019Last updated August 12, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

HER MOTHER’S EXASPERATED “You ought to be a lawyer!” was ultimately not lost on Amy Rosenberger ’85, who as an eight-year-old was arguing her case for spending a Saturday with a friend.

Alumni commissioned at Virginia Mennonite Missions centennial celebration service

July 30, 2019Last updated July 30, 2019 by Aaron Kauffman

Many Eastern Mennonite University alumni have some connection to Virginia Mennonite Missions, which celebrates its centennial this year. It was organized in 1916, and incorporated in 1919 as an agency

EMU @ #MennoCon19

July 9, 2019Last updated June 28, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University was well-represented at the July 2-6 Mennonite Church USA convention, aka MennoCon19. President Susan Schultz Huxman was among several administrators, faculty and staff to travel to Kansas

Geddes, DeWolf offer skills, strategies and an invitation into deep conversation with ‘Little Book of Racial Healing’

June 27, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Co-authors Jodie Geddes MA ‘16 and Tom DeWolf launched The Little Book of Racial Healing (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) during a webinar hosted by the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice in

CJP co-founder Hizkias Assefa named to Ethiopia’s Reconciliation Commission

June 3, 2019Last updated June 4, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Dr. Hizkias Assefa has been named to the Reconciliation Commission by the Ethiopian government. He is a co-founder of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and a longtime

Teenagers could become full delegates at Mennonite Church USA convention

Mennonite World Review

An EMU graduate and an incoming first-year are proponents of youth becoming full delegates at the annual MCUSA convention. ... read more about Teenagers could become full delegates at Mennonite Church USA convention from Mennonite World Review

Brazilian judges, lawyers visit EMU

May 28, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Pete DeLea/Daily News-Record

Danielle Arle has prosecuted thousands of crimes over her 27-year career in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. From her experience, the 49-year-old said the current method of criminal justice —

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