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CJP at 25: Celebrate, Reflect, Dream with Mohammed Abu-Nimer

October 16, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Moderator

During the 2019-20 academic year, as the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding commemorates its 25th anniversary, a series of guest authors will share reflections about CJP’s personal impact. We want

CJP at 25: Celebrate, Reflect, Dream with Phoebe Kilby

October 1, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

CJP alum converts DR Congo campus into peacebuilding center

September 26, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

An Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and Peacebuilding alum Fidele Ayu Lumeya MA ’00 returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo this month to direct the Congo Ubuntu Peacebuilding

Mel Lehman ’71 and Common Humanity bring contemporary Syrian art exhibit to EMU

September 20, 2019Last updated July 22, 2021 by EMU communications

Alumnus Mel Lehman ’71 brings a traveling exhibit featuring the work of contemporary Syrian artists to Eastern Mennonite University. The exhibit opens Friday, Sept. 20, in the Hartzler Library Gallery

CJP grad’s ‘Ghana, remember me’ performance connects different identities

September 12, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Kathleen Shaw/Daily News-Record

Pain can be a bridge to peace, vulnerability a path to strength — at least that is the message Talibah Aquil hopes audience members take with them after her performance

Community in Camden: Finding purpose, growing opportunity

September 4, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by With Lauren Jefferson

AFTER GRADUATING IN 2007, Timothy and Cheryl Heatwole Shenk moved to Camden, New Jersey, to be part of an intentional Christian community, which includes 12 adults and five children living

A dispatch from Cape Town: Students share from the South Africa cross-cultural

August 21, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

EMU students scattered across the globe on summer cross-culturals to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and South Africa. The cross-cultural experience has been a key component of EMU’s core curriculum

Seminary grad to be priest-in-charge at Emmanuel Episcopal

August 8, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

The Reverend Barbara Harrison Seward has accepted a call to become priest-in-charge at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg, Va. She is a 2011 graduate of Eastern Mennonite Seminary. “From the

Intensive English Program now accepting fall semester applications

July 17, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

The Intensive English Program (IEP) at Eastern Mennonite University is now accepting local and international applications for the fall semester, which runs August 28-December 12, 2019. New student assessments and

Geddes, DeWolf offer skills, strategies and an invitation into deep conversation with ‘Little Book of Racial Healing’

June 27, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Co-authors Jodie Geddes MA ‘16 and Tom DeWolf launched The Little Book of Racial Healing (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) during a webinar hosted by the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice in

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