Michael Bischoff, a 2002 graduate of CJP who is battling cancer, has been watched and coached by researchers who are studying an unusual medical question — namely, can the act of storytelling improve a person’s health? ... read more about ‘It’s about love’: Battling a brain tumor, a man finds resilience through storytelling from Stat
Climate action group Renew Rocktown is partnering up with Matchbox Realty to create a coalition of businesses interested in reducing their carbon energy emissions. Business leaders will be able to meet with James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University professionals about their options to be more environmentally friendly. ... read more about EMU, JMU experts will advise area businesses on carbon emission reduction from WHSV TV-3
Ever since Jess Okanya was a child, she has been interested in other cultures. So it’s no surprise that she was recently named interim executive director of Kairos: School for Spiritual Formation in Lancaster, Pa., where she hopes to explore other traditions. ... read more about Interim Kairos director Jess Okanya ’01 hopes to draw on traditions of other cultures, religions from Lancaster Online
Spiritual director Chris Hoover Seidel, on staff at the Center for Justice and Pecebuilding, writes about healing journeys within the body. ... read more about For the body tells me so: Chris Hoover Seidel on healing journeys from Menno Snapshots
I don’t want to talk about it either. But in spite of the controversy, there’s a heightened need to address the relationship between guns and our faith. ... read more about God and guns from Messenger
North Salem (Oregon) boys soccer coach Rich Swartzentruber, 61, is in his 25th season as North Salem boys soccer coach, and 31st as a high school coach. ... read more about Rich Swartzentruber, class of ’78, is in his 31st season as a high school coach from Statesman Journal
At Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, learning to understand the difference between chronic and traumatic stress is the first step in a training program called Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), said director Katie Mansfield. ... read more about ‘What is moral injury?’ Big Questions Online essay includes STAR training, interview with Director Katie Mansfield from Big Questions Online
Holly Scott is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Mennonite University and a native of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of Younger Than That Now: the Politics of Age in the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016). ... read more about History professor Holly Scott on how ‘We’re Shifting from Protest to Resistance – Just Like People Did in the 60s.’ from History News Network
When Eastern Mennonite University commissioned scholar Donald Kraybill to write a book about the school’s first 100 years, he said he wanted poetic license to look at the history through a sociological and theological lens. What emerged is a book that exposes the school’s warts as well as its highlights. ... read more about Donald Kraybill’s book chronicling Eastern Mennonite University exposes a sometimes messy history from Lancaster Online
John and Jennifer Murch and their four children of Linville headed up the homemade glazed doughnut-making for a second year. More than 18,000 of the confectionery delights sold. ... read more about Jennifer Murch ’97 blogs about the great donut-making extravaganza of the 2017 Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale from Jennifer Murch