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A meditation on vocation: academic departments host chapel services

March 1, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Ryan Thompson is a former Christian Church youth pastor who began a master’s degree in counseling at Richmont Graduate University, affiliated with the evangelical church, and then finished his

New website curated by Swarthmore archivist Anne Yoder ’81 features World War I conscientious objectors

February 20, 2018Last updated February 20, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A collection of over 700 historic documents curated by an Eastern Mennonite University graduate working at Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College sheds light on a broader spectrum of conscientious objectors (C.O.s) during

‘Guns Into Plowshares’ sculpture is the site of a vigil for Florida shooting victims

February 19, 2018Last updated February 20, 2018 by EMU communications

A vigil hosted by Trinity Presbyterian Church/Rally the Valley gathered at Eastern Mennonite University on Sunday evening to honor and commemorate the 17 students and staff killed last Wednesday by a

Drummers help SPI Community Day participants feel the beating heart of peace

February 16, 2018Last updated February 22, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Most participants in Timothy Seidel’s workshop were captivated by the humorous image. In one drawing, a huge fish chased a school of smaller fish. In the second, tables had turned:

Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders

February 7, 2018Last updated February 9, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Writing an instructional manual about growing and using elderberries for medicinal syrups may not look like peacebuilding at first glance, but Eastern Mennonite University senior Ben Rush’s practicum last fall

EMU’s peacebuilding institute invites leaders of U.S. Congress to learn more about talking sticks and circle processes

January 23, 2018Last updated January 26, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson and Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has invited leaders of Congress to learn more about using talking sticks in circle processes at its Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI). The

Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’

January 15, 2018Last updated January 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

In 1967, Sharon Washington Risher heard The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Charleston, South Carolina. Then a little girl, she remembers being summoned with a phone call

Sharon Washington Risher to speak as part of EMU’s week of MLK remembrance

January 2, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The Rev. Sharon Washington Risher knows hate: Among the nine black worshippers killed by a white supremacist at a prayer meeting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,

Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change

December 13, 2017Last updated December 15, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When African American civil rights activist Vincent Harding and his wife visited Meridian, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, they met Titus Bender for the first time. Bender, then a Mennonite

Watch: EMU DACAmented student Keyri Lopez-Godoy calls for DREAM Act

December 7, 2017Last updated December 7, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

For at least one Eastern Mennonite University student in particular, the Wednesday, Dec. 6 march in Harrisonburg from the city hall to Representative Bob Goodlatte’s office was for a deeply

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