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EMU centennial theme to celebrate “past, present and future” of university and Eastern Mennonite School

February 3, 2015Last updated February 4, 2015 by Amelia Brust

From an inaugural graduating class of seven students to 467 for the class of 2014, Eastern Mennonite University is not the same school it was a century ago. Plans for

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

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

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

Sunday school materials connect veterans, peace churches

December 22, 2014Last updated January 12, 2015 by Tim Huber

Developers of a new Sunday school curriculum say it goes down a seldom-walked path — where pacifists accompany veterans toward peace. Released on Veterans’ Day, Nov. 11, the free six-week

Vigil held to protest killing of a black person every 28 hours in America, ‘whether innocent or guilty’

December 11, 2014Last updated January 5, 2015 by Randi B. Hagi

About 60 people held a vigil in the heart of Eastern Mennonite University’s campus in early December for black people killed by police in America. Participants attracted by the Black

EMU faculty, staff and students sing “Joy to the World!” to celebrate advent

December 10, 2014Last updated January 2, 2015 by Mike Zucconi

[Editor’s note: An updated version of the EMU advent greeting was posted Dec. 12. After further consideration we eliminated one section of the video in order to be sensitive to what

Two recordings of The Walking Roots Band aim at nurturing discipleship and the church, aided by Kickstarter contributions

December 8, 2014Last updated January 6, 2016 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

“The Walking Roots Band has always been about relationships,” says Seth Crissman, student at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and member of The Walking Roots Band. “We started out as a group

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