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Center for Interfaith Engagement to host roundtable on Mennonite work in interfaith collaboration

March 12, 2018Last updated April 10, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

As part of its year-long Centennial celebration, Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement will host a roundtable on interfaith collaboration. One focus of the discussion will be on how building

EMU awarded $300,000 Department of Justice grant

February 14, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University has named Leda Werner as the project coordinator of a new grant funded by the U.S. Department of Justice that focuses on connecting with community partners to

Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders

February 7, 2018Last updated February 9, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Writing an instructional manual about growing and using elderberries for medicinal syrups may not look like peacebuilding at first glance, but Eastern Mennonite University senior Ben Rush’s practicum last fall

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,

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

November 13, 2017Last updated November 20, 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

‘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,”

New Center for Interfaith Engagement director wins dissertation award

November 9, 2017Last updated November 10, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

He may be a newly-minted PhD, but a recently-named program director at Eastern Mennonite University is no newcomer to distinguished scholarship. This fall Professor Timothy Seidel received the 2017 Dissertation

Congregate Charlottesville co-founders to be honored by National Council of Churches

October 31, 2017Last updated November 1, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

An Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduate and two other organizers of the clergy protest against the August “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be honored by the National Council

Presidents Forum – 2017 Centennial Homecoming

October 24, 2017Last updated October 24, 2017 by

Eastern Mennonite University’s current and past presents gather for a panel hosted by Donald Kraybill. Myron Augsburger, Joe Lapp, Loren Swartzendruber and current president Susan Schultz Huxman reflect on challenges,

EMU preps multi-talented Chilean alumni for doctoral religious studies, peacebuilding dialogue in the Jewish community

October 6, 2017Last updated October 9, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

When Channah Fonseca-Quezada and David Quezada talk about their personal journeys that have merged and taken them from their native Chile to the United States and now to Canada, one

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