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A meditation on vocation: academic departments host chapel services

March 1, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Ryan Thompson is a former Christian Church youth pastor who began a master’s degree in counseling at Richmont Graduate University, affiliated with the evangelical church, and then finished his

Free donuts, coffee and clothespins make Appreciation Week at EMU ‘simple,’ ‘edifying’

February 26, 2018Last updated February 27, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

If there was one thing Appreciation Week planners at Eastern Mennonite University hoped to leave out in the February gray and drear last week, it was this: the winter doldrums.

Ash Wednesday services lead EMU community into Lent

February 14, 2018Last updated February 19, 2018 by EMU communications

Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday were marked by services at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and Eastern Mennonite University this week. Martin Chapel hosted a Lectio Divina service focused on “living waters”

Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’

January 15, 2018Last updated January 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

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

Sharon Washington Risher to speak as part of EMU’s week of MLK remembrance

January 2, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

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,

Students honored at fall recognition chapel

December 8, 2017Last updated December 11, 2017 by EMU communications staff

During the Dec. 8 Fall Recognition Chapel, the following students were honored: Academic Success Center Linda Gnagey, director of the Academic Success Center, and Professor Vi Dutcher, with the Writing

EMU Centennial Christmas celebration offers concerts, ‘DoveTale’ play, and lessons and carols service

November 27, 2017Last updated December 3, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Thursday, Nov. 30: Jazz Ensemble Concert Come hear the 16-member ensemble under the direction of Robert Curry play swing, up-tempo funk, two Benny Carter pieces and more at Lehman Auditorium

Take Back the Night events honor survivors, highlight diverse impacts of sexual violence

November 15, 2017Last updated February 5, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

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

‘Let us compete in doing good’: Turkish author’s explorations bridge religious differences with ‘The Islamic Jesus’

November 10, 2017Last updated November 10, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Why does the Qur’an praise Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a “woman above all women”? Why does it venerate Jesus as “the Messiah,” and even “the Word of God,”

From Ecuador to Los Angeles: Centennial Augsburger Lecture Series features alumni with diverse missions experience

October 20, 2017Last updated October 26, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

When James Krabill thinks about how his many years of global ministry work began, he thinks of “Rebirth,” a group of student-singers from Eastern Mennonite College who went on two

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