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Lenten Reflections: Carmen Schrock-Hurst reflects on her journey with glaucoma and on walking ‘by faith, not by sight’

March 7, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Carmen Schrock-Hurst

In the fall of 1977, I was preparing to be a resident assistant in Northlawn residence hall. I needed to pick a Bible verse to be a theme for our

Students discern leadership gifts in summer-long Ministry Inquiry Program

April 29, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Answering a call, following a hunch, listening to your heart – four Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students, each with a different way of expressing what they are heeding in their

$2.2 million renovation of Roselawn now complete, offering pleasant office, class and interaction spaces

October 9, 2014Last updated January 6, 2016 by Kara Lofton

After more than six months of intensive construction work and a $2.2 million investment, the Roselawn renovation project at Eastern Mennonite University is complete. The former residence hall now houses

Four students explore various forms of ministry in summer program

September 3, 2014Last updated November 10, 2016 by Steve Shenk

When 20-year-old Hanna Heishman arrived at her assigned church this summer in Philadelphia, she wondered if she would have anything to offer the congregation. “I was definitely intimidated,” she said.

Rachel Held Evans: Millenials need church to be a ‘safe place to wrestle with tough questions,’ honor differences

March 28, 2014Last updated April 9, 2014 by Lauren Jefferson

When popular Christian author and blogger Rachel Held Evans came to Eastern Mennonite University last week, one student cleared her schedule. First-year seminarian Lindsay Davis was at each of Evans’

Students Test Their Gifts in Ministry Inquiry Program

May 1, 2012Last updated May 17, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

A group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students will begin summer internships with congregations throughout the U.S. as part of Mennonite Church USA‘s Ministry Inquiry Program (MIP). Funded in part

Bible Students Explore Emerging Church, Set Future Foundation

March 30, 2012Last updated September 17, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Bible students are different now than they were in the 1990s when Peter Dula was a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Students now, says Dula, Bible and religion department

New Church Encourages ‘Table Talk’

March 28, 2007 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Small groups, reflection, interaction, and artistic expression are usually words that describe a Sunday school class, not a church worship service. But at The Table, a new church located on

‘YPCA’ Celebrates 85 Years of Ministry, Service

October 23, 2006 by Andrea Schrock Wenger

Nearly 250 people – current students, former members, local church members gathered to celebrate 85 years of ministry, service and outreach through the Young People’s Christian Association Saturday, Oct. 14,

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