“I stood on bare feet on the parking lot and it was rough, it hurt my feet,” Ron Zook said. “And it just felt like a really holy moment standing there — a moment I will not forget. But then we had no idea that four or five hours later our parking lot would become the staging area and command center for the police.” ... read more about Co-pastors Ron and Judy Zook, both EMS alumni, saw a need after shooting across from their Lancaster church from Anabaptist World
EMU hopes a two-week delay and ‘COVID Commitments’ will keep classes on campus. Here's coverage and an interview with Dean of Students Shannon Dycus. ... read more about Hburg Citizen VIDEO interview with Dean of Students Shannon Dycus from Hburg Citizen
If you’re a baseball fan and a frequent user of social media, odds are you’ve seen the video. It’s a clip gone viral for all the right reasons. ... read more about Kratz goes viral for all the right reasons from Daily News-Record
Mike Gale, 42, came to Lexington after spending 14 seasons as the boys basketball coach at Stuarts Draft High in neighboring Augusta County. He is a 1996 graduate of Fort Defiance High School and a 2001 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University, where he played baseball. ... read more about Rockbridge AD Mike Gale ’01 is the new boys basketball coach from Roanoke Times
Amanda K Gross '06, MA '13 is an anti-racist organizer and artist living and working on the original land of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She blogs about the interconnectedness of racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and white womanhood at MistressSyndrome.com and is currently working on a full-length book on that same theme. ... read more about Loving the Enemy Within: Grounding in the trauma-healing work of anti-racism from Menno Snapshots
Ryan and Janie Beuthin and their three children grow flowers in an adjacent vacant lot in the Mott Park neighborhood. Ryan is a 2011 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate and Janie worked in the CJP office. ... read more about Flint family uses vacant lot for cut flower business from Flintside
Michael Greene '76, who was been coaching for over 40 years, leaves Park View as its longest tenured coach with 30 years of service at the high school. He is married to Bonnie Showalter Greene '77, whom he met at EMU. ... read more about Park View baseball coach retires after 30 years from Brunswick Times-Gazette
"So-called 'racial reconciliation' is primarily a white Christian attempt to remedy the tension in American race relations. But from a black perspective, racism is not so much interpersonal as institutional." Read the full article by Dr. David Evans, associate professor of history and intercultural studies at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. ... read more about Christianity Today: Professor David Evans on ‘racial reconciliation’ from Christianity Today
Danita Rountree Green shares about Coming to the Table in Richmond, Virginia (CTTT-RVA), a local nonprofit that invites people to engage in the sharing of stories at the table where food and facilitation become the perfect ingredients for spawning new friendships across the racial divide. We invite you to meet the ever-growing CTTT-RVA family and join us as we deal with our country’s oldest problem: the legacy of enslavement and the racism it has spawned. We are excited about our work: taking disparate stories and developing a shared narrative leading to healing. CTTT orginated at EMU. ... read more about The Presbyterian Outlook features Richmond chapter of Coming To The Table from The Presbyterian Outlook
If we’re paying attention, and many have been, the Fire, the Pandemic, and the Uprising proclaim that all this smoke, disease, and unrest are related to respiration, and the violence and waste that blocks it. When I’m paying attention, this year teaches me that Hindsight is 2020. I should’ve known better, and so should many others. ... read more about Jonathan McRay MA ’13: On paying attention to the Fire, the Pandemic and the Uprising, and our own 2020 vision from Resilience.org