Les Horning Archives

Seminary conference gives space to brokenness, ‘kintsugi clergy’ and ministry in a polarized society

January 23, 2018Last updated January 24, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

The Reverend Meredith McNabb is director of the United Methodist Church Virginia Conference’s Center for Clergy Excellence, and she isn’t afraid to poke a little fun at the grandiose-ness of

Seminary’s School for Leadership Training ‘Broken Vessels, Thriving Pastor’ slated for January

November 30, 2017Last updated November 30, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The ministry model of clay jars can take several twists: Are ministers cracked pots? Crackpots? Broken vessels? Is their work – to use another Biblical metaphor – but the sowing

New seminary degree trains leaders for ever-broadening spectrum of roles and contexts

August 16, 2017Last updated August 30, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

“Ministry” can take many forms and happen in many contexts: preaching and pastoral care in a church, yes, but also serving firefighters, pursuing restorative justice, leading music and offering spiritual

Seminary hosts the Summer Institute for Spiritual Formation June 19-30

May 31, 2017Last updated July 13, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

The Summer Institute for Spiritual Formation at Eastern Mennonite Seminary from June 19-30 provides training for those interested in individual spiritual direction and congregational spiritual formation. It also gives participants

School for Leadership Training addresses pastoral responses to a racialized and divided America

January 20, 2017Last updated February 1, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

“Some of us are more knowledgeable about what is happening with people 6,000 miles away, people we’ve never met, than what is happening with our neighbors,” said Professor David Evans

‘We don’t want differences to keep us apart’: School for Leadership Training focuses on connecting across divisiveness

November 28, 2016Last updated January 11, 2017 by Randi B. Hagi

Congregations must grapple with the contentious times in which we live. Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s 2017 School for Leadership Training (SLT) will speak to divisions of race, power, privilege and ideology—and

With the ageless theme of finding hope in times of fear, seminary convocation opens new academic year

September 2, 2016Last updated September 2, 2016 by Laura Lehman

With natural and man-made disasters on the collective minds of many students and faculty, Eastern Mennonite Seminary dean Michael King provided some assurance in his opening convocation address. “Will we

School for Leadership Training to challenge churches to consider the ‘nones’

November 24, 2014Last updated December 16, 2014 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

The Pew Research Center made news with its 2012 report that the fastest growing U.S. “denomination” was the “Nones,” the “religiously unaffiliated” who answer “none of the above” when asked

Worship in acknowledgment of the “elephant in the room”

February 7, 2014Last updated February 24, 2014 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Participants in the 2014 School for Leadership Training at Eastern Mennonite Seminary did not tiptoe for three days around the “elephant in the room” – that is, the anguish felt

Horning Brings Devotion to Seminary Fundraising Role

August 27, 2012Last updated January 6, 2016 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Les Horning has been a pastor, bus driver, chemist, house painter and doctoral student of Hebrew. Now he is a full-time advocate for Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va., as associate

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