Seven graduate students from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding have been selected to present at the 2018 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference April 13-14 in South Bend, ... read more about Seven CJP graduate students selected to present at Notre Dame peace conference
A 16-year-old interfaith dialogue between Mennonite and Shi'a Muslim scholars—held in Canada and Iran over the years—will continue at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU). ... read more about Canadian Mennonite University hosts seventh Muslim-Mennonite dialogue from Canadian Mennonite University
As part of its year-long Centennial celebration, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement will host a roundtable on interfaith collaboration. One focus of the discussion will be on how building ... read more about Center for Interfaith Engagement to host roundtable on Mennonite work in interfaith collaboration
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 ... read more about A meditation on vocation: academic departments host chapel services
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 ... read more about New website curated by Swarthmore archivist Anne Yoder ’81 features World War I conscientious objectors
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 ... read more about ‘Guns Into Plowshares’ sculpture is the site of a vigil for Florida shooting victims
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: ... read more about Drummers help SPI Community Day participants feel the beating heart of peace
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 ... read more about Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders
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 ... read more about EMU’s peacebuilding institute invites leaders of U.S. Congress to learn more about talking sticks and circle processes
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 ... read more about Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’