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Holy Week at EMU: Join in outdoor ‘community alfombra’ creation on Palm Sunday, worship with LSA mid-week

April 4, 2019Last updated April 15, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Two unique Holy Week worship experiences will be hosted at Eastern Mennonite University this Easter season — each rooted in the Central American artistic and spiritual tradition of the alfombra

Emory grad student Nicole Groff ’14 talks public health career goals, advice for pre-med majors and more

January 18, 2019Last updated January 23, 2019 by Interviewed by Lauren Jefferson

Nicole Groff is among the alumni living and working in the Atlanta area who are featured in the fall/winter 2018-19 Crossroads magazine. Tell us about your current studies at Emory

New Testament scholar N.T. Wright draws standing-room-only crowds in Harrisonburg

November 26, 2018Last updated November 26, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

N.T. Wright – eminent New Testament scholar and Augsburger Lecture Series guest at Eastern Mennonite University – had just made the point that “image-bearing, God-reflecting” humans were put on this

Student group Safe Space organizes silent protest in response to visiting theologian’s refusal to meet

November 26, 2018Last updated April 8, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

A group of Eastern Mennonite University students gathered outside of Lehman Auditorium before and after a November campus worship service featuring visiting theologian N.T. Wright to draw attention to his

New campus worship format broadens, deepens engagement

October 21, 2018Last updated October 19, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

With the beginning of the new academic year at Eastern Mennonite University comes inevitable changes – a new schedule, new courses and new demands on time. But this fall, one

Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: ‘Meet students where they are’

May 16, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University’s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant baseball coach Adam

Tributes by faculty and staff for 2018 Cords of Distinction honorees

May 9, 2018Last updated May 9, 2018 by Compiled by Bernadette Griffith

Ten graduating seniors were honored as Cords of Distinction recipients in a ceremony Saturday afternoon, May 5, 2018, at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated the

Hurricane relief efforts unite concerned EMU students

September 28, 2017Last updated September 29, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Surrounded by boxes of supplies and volunteers packing blue and gray buckets to create relief kits, Eastern Mennonite University senior Ryan Faraci still wanted to do more. His efforts, and

Summer ’17 cross-culturals travel to the Navajo Nation, Bolivia, Spain and ‘Anabaptist Europe’

June 2, 2017Last updated July 5, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Madalynn Payne, traveling this summer with the “Radical Europe Anabaptist Roots” cross-cultural group from Eastern Mennonite University, says train travel, walking tours, independent exploration and dining in unfamiliar cultures have

Lenten reflection from Campus Pastor Brian Martin Burkholder

March 16, 2017Last updated March 16, 2017 by Moderator

Too many times I choose the less risky path of remaining in the comfort of complacency. As a follower of Jesus, the one who fulfills prophecy, reinterprets the Law of

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