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Upcoming Writers Read author and English professor Mark Bauerlein to speak on humanities in the digital age

January 29, 2015Last updated February 6, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Take a minute and read this book title: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (or Don’t Trust Anyone under 30). Chances are those words

98-year-old Amish teacher pays first visit to alma mater 61 years after graduating

January 28, 2015Last updated September 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

When retired church ministry professor John R. Martin welcomed his former classmate to the Eastern Mennonite University campus last week, he offered warm regards. “It is an honor that you’ve

Church leaders discuss challenges of ministering to ‘nones’ and millenials at annual School for Leadership Training

January 23, 2015Last updated February 6, 2015 by Laura Amstutz

Author, scholar and Episcopal priest Lauren Winner opened the annual School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary with succinct advice for those seeking to understand the changing dynamics affecting

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy celebrated with solidarity march, music, chapel and service opportunities

January 23, 2015Last updated February 6, 2015 by Randi B. Hagi

What creates systems of discrimination and oppression? What power and motivation do people have to resist these systems? Where do they take comfort when hatred acts? These questions were asked

After Vietnam and Nigeria, Dr. Linford Gehman ’59 chooses to serve rural and homebound patients for almost a half century

January 20, 2015Last updated February 2, 2015 by Robert Propst

The image of an experienced country doctor making house calls with a big black bag full of basic medical equipment has not completely disappeared. Even in a culture of increasing

Black history author, minister to lead EMU in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 15-20

January 15, 2015Last updated January 21, 2015 by Mike Zucconi

A prominent black history author, musician and professor, Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani, PhD, will lead Eastern Mennonite University’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. during university chapel on Monday, Jan. 19,

For fight against Ebola, international students plan fundraising event with Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee

January 15, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

After spending the summer thousands of miles from her native Liberia and watching nervously from afar as Ebola swept through her country, sophomore Winifred Gray-Johnson wanted to take action when

EMU and Sichuan University of China sign cooperation agreement

January 15, 2015Last updated January 28, 2015 by Steve Shenk

Eastern Mennonite University and Sichuan University of Arts and Science, located in central China, signed an agreement on Jan. 13, 2015, to “promote academic exchanges, scientific research cooperation, and communication

Konrad Wert, a.k.a. Possessed by Paul James, draws spotlight from Billboard charts, NPR and NY Times before returning (yet again) to EMU

January 13, 2015Last updated January 19, 2015 by Andrew Jenner

It was 1994 when Konrad Wert ’01 arrived at Eastern Mennonite University for the first time, and he didn’t stay long. Iffy about college from the start, he left after his

School for Leadership Training to challenge churches to consider the ‘nones’

November 24, 2014Last updated December 16, 2014 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

The Pew Research Center made news with its 2012 report that the fastest growing U.S. “denomination” was the “Nones,” the “religiously unaffiliated” who answer “none of the above” when asked

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