After a pro career that lasted from 2002 to 2020, Erik Kratz is the baseball coach for the middle-school team at Dock Mennonite Academy — which has campuses in Souderton and Lansdale, Penn. One of his assistant coaches is Kara Derstine, also an EMU grad. ... read more about Kratz: From MLB Catcher To Middle School Coach from Daily News-Record
With a year of COVID experience and lots of new livestreaming equipment, music departments are offering recorded and outdoor performances to churches for use in recorded or livestreamed Sunday services. Anabaptist World surveys EMU and other Mennonite colleges and universities for their contributions. ... read more about EMU musicians contribute to evolving worship resources from Anabaptist World
Since the pandemic, the 35-year-old mother of four has been working from the Panera parking lot, sitting in her Honda minivan with her laptop propped against the steering wheel, attempting to catch a Wi-Fi signal. Baer wore triple layers, parked in the sun and occasionally blasted the heat to keep her fingers from getting numb. It was there that she wrote “What Kind of Woman,” a poetry collection that topped the New York Times best-seller list for paperback trade fiction when Harper Perennial released it late last year. It was her first piece of paid writing. ... read more about Kate Baer Is Speaking Truth. From Her Minivan. from DNYUZ
Loren Hostetter '85 has a passion for the American chestnut. The Citizen tells the story. ... read more about Loren Hostetter ’85 and the resurrection of the American chestnut from The Citizen
EMU President Susan Schultz Huxman, chair of the Council of Independent Colleges of Virginia, speaks with Richmond radio host John Reid. ... read more about WRVA Richmond Morning News hosts Susan Schultz Huxman from The John Reid Show
Sabrina Burress MA '18 (counseling) is the executive director of Augusta Resources for Resilience, Opportunity and Wellness, or the ARROW Project. The nonprofit organization seeks to expand “mental health treatment possibilities” within Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro. ... read more about Staunton nonprofit mental health agency embraces diversity from The Breeze
After a pressure-packed year of putting on classical performances in the midst of a pandemic, and facing festering tensions over his treatment of actors and staff, Ethan McSweeny has resigned as artistic director of American Shakespeare Center, the Staunton, Va., company announced Friday. Rodney Young, chairman of the 20-member board of trustees, told the Washington Post that mediators were brought in from EMU to aid in improving trust and communications after the split. ... read more about EMU tapped for mediators by American Shakespeare Company from Washington Post
Lee Roy Berry Jr. — an attorney in Goshen, Indiana, and a retired Goshen (Indiana) College professor — tells about how Mennonites and the Civil War made it possible for him to move beyond working the fields as a migrant farm worker. This is an abridged version of a chapel presentation for Mennonite Mission Network. ... read more about Alum ‘shaped by war and people of peace’: From farm worker to university professor from Mennonite Mission Network
EMU's special collections library Simone Horst on peppernuts (with photos that will make you hungry for one...or two) ... read more about Peppernuts, Theme and Variations from Anabaptist Historians
Her op-ed in Anabaptist World answers the question: Should restorative justice be used in instances of sexual harm? ... read more about Professor Carolyn Stauffer on ‘Sexual harm and restorative justice: the case for care-fullness’ from Anabaptist World