Mark Thiessen Nation Archives

EMU faculty on sabbaticals for the 2016-17 academic year plan a variety of scholarly pursuits

August 23, 2016Last updated March 28, 2017 by EMU communications staff

Eastern Mennonite University announces the awarding of sabbaticals for the 2016-17 academic year. Six sabbaticals are granted per year. Proposals from tenured faculty are selected by the Faculty Status Committee,

New online seminary courses focus on thought-provoking topics

August 11, 2014Last updated September 3, 2014 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Eastern Mennonite Seminary is offering three unique online courses on thought-provoking topics this school year: (1) Dietrich Bonhoeffer; (2) psychology and religion; and (3) the intersection of race and religion.

Scholars of religion and theology debate purpose and outcomes of interfaith dialogue

April 2, 2014Last updated April 11, 2014 by Steve Shenk

When the Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) at Eastern Mennonite University brings people of different religions together to talk, what’s the point? Should everyone water down their beliefs in order

Extravagant love – from the Little Grill to Our Community Place

March 8, 2014Last updated July 8, 2014 by Kara

Let’s begin in 1992 , when the Free Food For All Soup Kitchen opened to the world, every Monday at noon, at The Little Grill restaurant in downtown Harrisonburg. Ron

Distinguished Faculty Headline Summer Missional Institute

March 11, 2013Last updated April 3, 2013 by Catherine Stover

Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) Lancaster is offering three courses in its Summer Institute for Missional Questions, April-June 2013. The teachers, Myron S. Augsburger, Conrad L. Kanagy and Mark and Mary

Young Anabaptists Consider Mission in an “Occupied” World

March 2, 2012Last updated March 14, 2012 by Laura Amstutz

How do Anabaptists do mission in a world with an “occupy” mentality? Young Anabaptist scholars will gather at Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) April 13-14 to discuss this at a conference

EMS Professor Challenges Conventional Wisdom about German Theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

February 17, 2011Last updated March 11, 2011 by Laura Lehman Amstutz

Dr. Mark Thiessen Nation, professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, will present a lecture, “Bonhoeffer the Assassin?: Challenging a Myth, Recovering Costly Grace” Wednesday, February 23, 3:30-5 at Eastern

Seminary Grad Writes Book on Pro-Life Ethics

July 19, 2010 by Laura Amstutz

Consistently Pro-Life:The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity “This is a book about killing.” That’s the opening descriptive line in Eastern Mennonite Seminary grad Rob Arner’s new book. Arner, of

Profs to Lead Forum on ‘Homosexuality’

February 18, 2009 by Jim Bishop

Ted Grimsrud Mark Thiessen Nation The book is available in the university bookstore and will be for sale at the close of the program. Ted Grimsrud and Mark Thiessen Nation,

Professors Co-Author Book on Homosexuality

December 19, 2008 by Laura Amstutz