Three days before the 2016 presidential election, two Mennonites arrived in Washington D.C. from Ontario, Canada, on a kind of exploratory mission, a self-described “pilgrimage” to the American capital. Their ... read more about Election documentary ‘Hope Was Not On The Ballot’ explores the promise of Christian witness in tumultuous times
From March 6-10, 2017, Eastern Mennonite University Y-Serve sends four student groups on service learning trips. A special chapel Friday, March 3, at 10 a.m. in Lehman Auditorium, will offer ... read more about EMU’s oldest, most influential student organization YPCA, now Y-Serve, continues its ministry
Patrick Campbell ’12, MA ’14 (conflict transformation) was honored with the Governor’s Fire Services Award for Civilian Excellence in Virginia Fire Service Support. He accepted the award Saturday, Feb. 25, ... read more about Red Cross disaster program manager earns excellence award for promoting fire safety in at-risk communities
In preparation for his 40-day fast, which begins today, Ash Wednesday, Daryl Byler has made a few changes to his recreational reading. This lawyer, ordained minister and executive director of ... read more about CJP executive director begins forty-day ‘Fast for Healing Justice’
Maria Swartzentruber, a fifth-grade teacher at Linville-Edom Elementary School, has made it her mission to get students excited about math. [Swartzentruber graduated in 2011 with a degree in education and ... read more about Maria Swartzentruber ’11, MA ’16 wins Virginia math educator of the year award
It had been two and a half weeks since President Trump’s executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for three months, suspending the U.S. Refugee ... read more about Christine Baer ’14 helps Lancaster community members learn how to welcome refugees
Najeeha Khan came to Friday’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute Community Day at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) to gain organizing skills and learn about facilitating dialogue. The senior international affairs and religion ... read more about Got conflict? Growing SPI Community Day reflects citizens’ need for peacebuilding skills
Videographer Andrew Strack is interviewed about the video produced by EMU to share a message of welcome. ... read more about WHSV picks up on record-setting #YouAreWelcomeHere video from WHSV TV-3
This article by Ruth Hoover Seitz ’62 was first published in The Way We Are (1992). It is rare for news from a small liberal arts college to make the national ... read more about ‘Student Power for a Library’: How EMC made the national news in 1969
Harley Kooker '73 and his wife Kate Hess '72 Kooker are featured in a Washington Post article about Syrian refugees placed by Church World Service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ... read more about ‘Now they live in the light’: A Syrian refugee family finds only love and compassion in America from Washington Post