The Eastern Mennonite University Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) held its fall reception in September to celebrate the previous academic year and note upcoming events. “What lessons have we learned?” ... read more about Center for Interfaith Engagement celebrates highlights
Inter-Faith Peace Camp at King’s University College mingles in London, Ontario, Canada, mingles faith and friendship. ... read more about Ontario peace camp, based on the EMU model, mingles faith and friendship from London Free Press
“When you can joyfully sit and eat together,meaningfully pray together, and feel at home and close to God in one another’s holy sites, then surely you have really become intimate ... read more about Well-known scholar leads group of Iranian women from their Islamic seminary to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute
Ten Iranian women from the world’s largest Shi’a Islam seminary will attend Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) for three weeks in May. Their arrival will mark the first ... read more about Iranian women scholars to study at Summer Peacebuilding Institute
J. Daryl Byler’s 11th trip to Iran marks the culmination of nearly a quarter-century of bridge-building efforts between North American Mennonites and Iranians. Byler, who is executive director of the ... read more about EMU, MCC leaders nurture warm relationship with Islamic scholars in Iran
Provost Fred Kniss ’79 encouraged an international cross-section of academics hearing his keynote address to the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) to consider the religious “tributaries, eddies and ... read more about Provost Argues for Valuing “Tributaries” Beyond the Religious Mainstream
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) President Loren Swartzendruber called students, faculty and staff to be “like no other,” as a Christian university and as servant leaders, to the standing-room only crowd ... read more about EMU Opens Convocation “Like No Other”
Ed Martin of Akron, Pa., has been named director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University. The Center – earlier referred to as “Abraham’s Tent” – provides ... read more about EMU Program Changes Name, Appoints Director