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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 ... read more about Provost Argues for Valuing “Tributaries” Beyond the Religious Mainstream

Resiliency After Trauma of War

June 18, 2013Last updated July 15, 2013 by Andrew Jenner

After he got back from the war, Mark Lauro couldn’t pick up his young son without thinking about that night in Iraq. He was an Army National Guard sergeant with a ... read more about Resiliency After Trauma of War

Egypt Trip Shows Common Ground of Seminary and Peacebuilding

February 25, 2013Last updated March 8, 2013 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Ever since 2011, Egypt has featured prominently in U.S. news. But what do U.S. citizens, especially Christians, really know about the country? Matthew Bucher and Greta Shenk are teaming up ... read more about Egypt Trip Shows Common Ground of Seminary and Peacebuilding

Gather at the Table, a Book on Race Relations, Takes Off Nationwide

January 10, 2013Last updated January 23, 2013 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Gather at the Table, a book about two individuals exploring their vastly different histories – one being an African-American woman descended from slavery and the other a European-American man descended ... read more about Gather at the Table, a Book on Race Relations, Takes Off Nationwide

Paintings, Pottery and Photography Combine in a “Beautiful Peace”

November 2, 2012Last updated January 18, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Paintings, pottery, photography and art come together in a show by Lisa Schirch, peacebuilding artist and practitioner-in-residence, on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m., in the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) ... read more about Paintings, Pottery and Photography Combine in a “Beautiful Peace”

Succumbing to EMU’s Magnetism, Once, Twice, Thrice

October 25, 2012Last updated November 9, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But ... read more about Succumbing to EMU’s Magnetism, Once, Twice, Thrice

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 ... read more about EMU Opens Convocation “Like No Other”

Check Out Graduate Studies for Peacebuilding

August 30, 2012Last updated September 17, 2012 by Lora Steiner

Interested in a graduate education that increased the knowledge of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate? The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University invites you to visit campus ... read more about Check Out Graduate Studies for Peacebuilding

Gbowee Carries Olympic Flag at Ceremony

July 31, 2012Last updated August 13, 2012 by Mike Zucconi

Leymah Gbowee, one of three recipients jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, carried in the Olympic flag with seven other humanitarians during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. ... read more about Gbowee Carries Olympic Flag at Ceremony

EMU Prof Pauses Dialogue With Military To Do Art

July 20, 2012Last updated July 31, 2012 by Andrew Jenner

One might reasonably expect Lisa Schirch, a research professor with EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), to believe that the best the American military can do in Afghanistan is ... read more about EMU Prof Pauses Dialogue With Military To Do Art

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