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’
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, ... read more about Sharon Washington Risher to speak as part of EMU’s week of MLK remembrance
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 ... read more about Civil rights activist, pastor and social work professor Titus Bender was a catalyst for social change
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 ... read more about Watch: EMU DACAmented student Keyri Lopez-Godoy calls for DREAM Act
If the criminal justice system as we know it transforms dramatically, shrinks, or becomes obsolete … then what? Injustice Today reports on the myriad alternative visions of justice in the U.S. and Canada. ... read more about In Justice Today on the Zehr Institute’s Listening project from Injustice Today
In a widespread, fast-moving field such as restorative justice (RJ), how does a major grant-funding organization discern where to allot funds? One answer: engage with the Zehr Institute for Restorative ... read more about Zehr Institute releases research on best funding opportunities to build sustainable restorative justice projects
With #metoo and #Ibelieveyou circulating through social media feeds and news digest, Eastern Mennonite University’s Nov. 7-10 Take Back the Night events focused the community on reflection, listening and frank ... read more about Take Back the Night events honor survivors, highlight diverse impacts of sexual violence
In the gray cold of early November on Thomas Plaza at Eastern Mennonite University, eleven chairs called attention to the plights of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the ... read more about DACA campus committee hosts outdoor ‘story exhibit,’ continues advocacy
He may be a newly-minted PhD, but a recently-named program director at Eastern Mennonite University is no newcomer to distinguished scholarship. This fall Professor Timothy Seidel received the 2017 Dissertation ... read more about New Center for Interfaith Engagement director wins dissertation award