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
“Flint is complicated.” Ryan Beuthin drives two visitors through the Mott Park neighborhood in Flint, Michigan. Though clean and wide, the streets are flanked by decrepit, abandoned homes, vacant grassy ... read more about Shalom-seeking in Flint, Michigan, with CJP grad Ryan Beuthin and his family
In a photo taken outside the Women Doing Theology Conference last month, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) Lancaster student Karyn Nancarvis flexes her muscles and grins. Nancarvis attended the conference in Leesburg, ... read more about Scholars from Harrisonburg and Lancaster campuses attend ‘Women Doing Theology’ conference
Senior social work major Elisabeth Wilder spent 12 weeks last summer working for peacebuilding organization Justapaz in Bogota, Colombia. A grant from Eastern Mennonite University’s Peacebuilding and Development Department funded ... read more about Justapaz intern shares hopes for a future Colombian peace billed as ‘impossible’
Representatives from six police departments across the country attended a law enforcement retreat on restorative justice Nov. 11-13 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. The retreat was co-hosted by the Harrisonburg (Virginia) Police ... read more about Restorative justice retreat draws law enforcement practitioners for networking, resources and planning
It’s Paulette, coming live to you from Cannonball, North Dakota, and I’m at the sacred defenders’, the Water Defenders’ camp. And it’s early-early. I’m just waiting for the sun to ... read more about Former VACA professor of Mohawk heritage now providing media coverage of Standing Rock activists
This weekend [Nov. 11-13], a small number of police chiefs will come to Harrisonburg to discuss restorative justice best practices that aim to focus more on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. ... read more about Police talk restorative justice at local retreat from WMRA
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
By depicting “a culture where violence has become gradually acceptable,” the play Far Away gives the audience a lens to examine their roles and responsibility in the violence of our ... read more about ‘Far Away’ examines the domino effect of violence, how ‘little things lead to big things’