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President on EMU’s Mission: ‘We Are Educating for Shalom’

August 27, 2008 by Jim Bishop

Brian Martin Burkholder, campus pastor, leads the Eastern Mennonite University hymn, "Christ of the Mountain, be our Word." Photo by Jon Styer So, why are you here? A rather strange

2007 Graduates Urged to Discover the Path

April 30, 2007Last updated September 24, 2014 by Jim Bishop

EMU awarded a posthumous degree to the late Thomas P. Bowers of Harrisonburg during the school’s 89th commencement held Sunday afternoon, Apr. 29, on the front lawn of campus. Read

EMU Sets 89th Commencement

April 16, 2007Last updated September 24, 2014 by Jim Bishop

EMU will hold its 89th annual commencement exercises 1 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 29 on the front lawn of campus, weather permitting. President Loren E. Swartzendruber will confer 403 degrees –

New Book Details Personal Encounters With Biblical Text

September 13, 2006 by Jim Bishop

How does the church address differences? How can the struggle draw persons together rather than drive them apart? A new book, “Telling Our Stories: Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture,”