Jean Claude Nkundwa, a 2014 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been selected for the center’s Peacebuilder of the Year Award. Nkundwa has devoted ... read more about Burundi peace activist Jean Claude Nkundwa to receive the CJP Peacebuilder of the Year Award
“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 ... read more about School for Leadership Training addresses pastoral responses to a racialized and divided America
The fall/winter 2016 issue of Crossroads focuses on Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have made conscious choices, whether vocational or avocational, to work in multicultural settings as advocates for social ... read more about ‘Let Your Life Speak’: Fall/Winter 2016 Crossroads features alumni empowering neighbors in multicultural U.S.
Ahmed Tarik was 15 and barely out of ninth grade when his family fled Baghdad for Syria. It was 2006, and no longer safe to remain in the city where ... read more about Multiple CJP alumni and faculty collaborate on UNDP-funded project in Iraq
After Sept. 11, The Rev. Steven D. Martin found himself the subject of much interest. Suddenly every public television station was scrambling for material on Muslims, and his first major ... read more about Communications director for National Council of Churches shares his interfaith journey
Eastern Mennonite University and the Center for Interfaith Engagement welcomes Fulbright Scholar Dr. Syafaatun Almirzanah for the 2016-17 academic year. She is on the faculty of theology in the Department ... read more about Comparative religions expert and Fulbright Scholar Syafaatun Almirzanah joins EMU faculty from Indonesia
Ed Martin’s interest in interfaith work won’t stop when he ends his six-year term as director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement. Martin, whose last day is Thursday, ... read more about Center for Interfaith Engagement Director Ed Martin retires after six years of facilitating dialogue and scholarly interaction
At a time when walls are being reinforced and deepened around the Gaza Strip—called by some “the world’s largest open-air prison”—Maha Mehanna is doing her best to build bridges of ... read more about Palestinian Muslim peacebuilder Maha Mehanna helps to bring voices, stories and perspectives of Gaza to the world
To the outsider, the June 15-18 Restorative Justice in Motion conference at Eastern Mennonite University may have looked like any other summer gathering of intellectuals, ready to share, network and ... read more about ‘Restorative Justice In Motion’ conference provides practitioners with space for meaningful dialogue about race, power, privilege and identity
“Our days are going to be long and our work is going to be hard, but when you leave here, you will also be refreshed,” said Sharon Leslie Morgan in ... read more about Coming To The Table’s ‘National Gathering’ marks 10 years of acknowledging the wounds of slavery