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‘Borders, Jails, and Long Drives in the Desert’: Immigrant rights attorney Kara Hartzler ’94 to present Keim Lecture

March 15, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Federal public defender, immigrant rights attorney and playwright Kara Hartzler ’94 will give the spring 2019 Keim Lecture Series presentation at Eastern Mennonite University. Titled “Borders, Jails, and Long Drives

‘Deconstruct and decolonize our history’: UCC minister of racial justice The Rev. Dr. Velda Love urges ownership, truthtelling

March 15, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

The Rev. Dr. Velda Love brought her message of empowerment, truthtelling and biblical understanding to Eastern Mennonite University for three events related to Women’s History Month. Love is the United

Ubuntu through ‘putting on’ Christ: Divine Unity pastor urges a ‘wardrobe change’

February 28, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Taking Galatians 3:27-28 as his main text, Pastor AJ Mosley’s sermon on the theme of ubuntu Wednesday offered practical advice. “Putting on Christ” is more than just putting on clothes,

Area teens attend CJP-hosted arts-based peacebuilding workshop

February 27, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Eight Center for Justice and Peacebuilding graduate students collaborated to plan and lead an arts-based peacebuilding workshop for local refugee and immigrant students last weekend. More than 30 students from Harrisonburg High

FSU professor, a leader in indigenous nursing research, talks health inequities, historical trauma

February 27, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

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Late switch to accounting major poses no barriers to scholarship winner Alyssa Gore

February 15, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Alyssa Gore came to Eastern Mennonite University unsure about a career path but with a hope: “to become successful in something that I love doing” – and it appears she

FSU professor John Lowe ’81 to speak on health equity and indigenous nursing research

February 8, 2019Last updated August 15, 2019 by EMU communications

John Lowe ’81, endowed professor for health disparities research and director of the Center for Indigenous Nursing Research for Health Equity at Florida State University College of Nursing, will give

Learning, service and inspiration to ‘break the silence’ during EMU’s multi-day MLK celebration

January 22, 2019Last updated January 22, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Nearly 28 events, including lectures, service projects and workshops, were scheduled for Eastern Mennonite University’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, styled as a “day on” instead of a

New student lounge, ‘The Royal Treatment’ barbershop and salon, opens on MLK Day

January 16, 2019Last updated January 24, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

On Friday afternoons and other days on demand, senior Mark Loving III opens an informal barbershop in his campus apartment at Eastern Mennonite University. Guys and a few girls, too,

Sudanese refugees in U.S. diaspora explore restorative justice, mediation and trauma healing with CJP grad

January 16, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

As it is for many graduate students at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, the required capstone project was more than just an assignment for Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail MA

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