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Iranian women scholars to study at Summer Peacebuilding Institute

April 16, 2014Last updated May 6, 2014 by Lauren Jefferson

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

EMU, MCC leaders nurture warm relationship with Islamic scholars in Iran

March 8, 2014Last updated March 21, 2014 by Lauren Jefferson

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

Provost Argues for Valuing “Tributaries” Beyond the Religious Mainstream

August 12, 2013Last updated August 29, 2013 by Andrew Jenner

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

EMU Opens Convocation “Like No Other”

August 31, 2012Last updated September 22, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

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

EMU Program Changes Name, Appoints Director

March 18, 2011Last updated January 6, 2016 by Andrea Schrock Wenger

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

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