Eastern Mennonite University’s Inside Out playback theater group is the recent recipient of two grants to expand their work with racial healing and marginalized populations. [Editor’s note 4/3/2018: Inside Out ... read more about Inside Out playback theater group awarded Catalyst Initiative, Justpax grants
On at least two occasions, Ashley Hevener has known, deep down, almost instantaneously, where she wanted to be. One was a campus visit to Eastern Mennonite University that changed her ... read more about Auditing around the world: Grad gives thanks for EMU education
As tensions between nations rise and world leaders threaten war, peacemakers all over the world work to make peace on Earth a reality. Jae Young Lee and Karen Spicher, Mennonite Mission Network mission associates in Namyangju, South Korea, are two of those peacemakers. ... read more about Alumni build peace in South Korea, piece by piece from Mennonite World Review
EMU Archivist Simone Horst ’12 published this article Dec. 15, 2017, on the Anabaptist Historians website. Names are funny things. Once they’re assigned to people, places, or things it can ... read more about A school by any other name? The (ongoing) considerations of institutional nomenclature
An Eastern Mennonite University graduate is one of this year’s “40 Under Forty” honorees recognized by the Tacoma, Washington-based Business Examiner. Kristy King, who owns a FIT4MOM franchise in Olympia, ... read more about FIT4MOM franchise owner and ‘40 Under Forty’ honoree helps moms find their voices, community
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
My wife and I have led 13 groups of college students to the Middle East since 1991 as part of Eastern Mennonite University’s required cross-cultural program. During the semester-long immersive ... read more about ‘Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem’: Longtime cross-cultural leader Linford Stutzman on Trump’s U.S. embassy move
The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kumar Anuraj Jha, MA ’07. Jha died in a car ... read more about CJP mourns the loss of UN specialist Kumar Anuraj Jha MA ’07
Michael Bischoff, a 2002 graduate of CJP who is battling cancer, has been watched and coached by researchers who are studying an unusual medical question — namely, can the act of storytelling improve a person’s health? ... read more about ‘It’s about love’: Battling a brain tumor, a man finds resilience through storytelling from Stat
Twenty years after it debuted, DoveTale will be performed at Eastern Mennonite University’s Lehman Auditorium Dec. 10, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. All ages are invited to this family-friendly show which ... read more about ‘DoveTale’ benefit show marks 20-year anniversary, honors Lee Eshleman and adds to centennial celebrations