Lynette Mast '88 helps Eastern Mennonite Elementary students take part in an annual tradition, with each student adding their name to their classroom’s pledge of nonviolence poster, and then washing one another’s hands. ... read more about EMS elementary school students sign pledge of nonviolence from Eastern Mennonite School
Twenty employees from Grand Canyon National Park attended its first week-long Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) workshop, run by Eastern Mennonite University. ... read more about Outside Magazine: EMU-led STAR trauma training in Grand Canyon National Park from Outside
Carol Hurst, EMU associate professor and social work program director, was a speaker at the July 26-27 conference “Empowering Women: Claiming Healthy Personal Boundaries,” a collaboration of Mennonite Women USA and Dove’s Nest, in Omaha, Nebraska. ... read more about Social work professor talks boundaries at women’s empowerment conference from The Mennonite
Charlie Tinsley MDiv. '18, Virginia state ambassador for the National Association of Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (NAASCA), was a panelist on the organization's Aug. 11 radio show. To find resources and the podcast, visit the NAASCA website. ... read more about Seminary grad is ambassador for organization supporting adult survivors of child abuse from National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
Sumanto Al Qurtuby MA '07 (conflict transformation), an Indonesian professor of cultural anthropology at King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, believes Indonesia's national motto of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, or Unity in Diversity, is an achievable endeavor and that the archipelago could serve as an example to the rest of the world. ... read more about Sumanto Al Qurtuby MA ’07, professor at King Fahd University, speaks on diversity in his native Indonesia from Jakarta Globe
Jeff Heie MA '00 (conflict transformation), project coordinator for the Harrisonburg Gift & Thrift solar project, helps connect Mennonite values to solar energy in this article. The “Thrifty Solar Barn Raising” team was among 170 teams nationwide selected to compete in the US Department of Energy’s Solar In Your Community Challenge, a $5 million contest that supports “innovative and replicable community-based solar business models and programs that will bring solar to underserved communities.” ... read more about How solar energy helps Mennonites with their mission of global relief from Energy News
To put Eastern Mennonite University's leadership on solar power in context, you need to understand just how much things have changed in Virginia, and nationwide, in the eight years since the university put up its solar array. ... read more about VIDEO: EMU’s groundbreaking solar array shows exemplary alt-energy leadership from Secure Futures
Why Restorative Justice is About More Than Reducing Suspensions: The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, taps Professor Kathy Evans to comment on the restorative justice in education movement. . ... read more about The Hechinger Report: Professor Kathy Evans identifies priorities of restorative justice in education movement from KQED/The Hechinger Report
Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton has voted to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants facing deportation. Rev. Rachel Ringenberg Miller and associate pastor Ben Woodward-Breckbill say that move allows the church to provide temporary relief to immigrants. ... read more about Newton church led by seminary grad votes to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants from The Wichita Eagle
“Connecting as human beings is a source of healing.” These words from plenary speaker, Beth Toner, set the tone for the entire weekend of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship’s (MHF) Annual Gathering. On June 22-24, about 60 Anabaptist healthcare professionals and their families gathered at Bluffton University in Ohio under the theme of “Stories of Healing.” ... read more about Beth Toner MSN ’17 offers plenary at MHF Annual Gathering from Mennonite Health Journal