After 10 days of fighting and hundreds killed, Israel and Hamas are observing a cease fire. In Harrisonburg, protesters rallied in solidarity with Palestinians on Saturday. Tim Seidel , professor and director of EMU's Center for Interfaith Engagment, spoke at the rally.
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Right now, many Eastern Mennonite University students and alumni – wherever they’re waiting out the coronavirus pandemic – are observing the month of Ramadan. The ninth and holiest month in the
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Theology and peacebuilding faculty from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Eastern Mennonite University as well as other invited guests and students, gathered in Elkhart, Indiana, for a theology and peacebuilding
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Rabbi Dr. Niles Goldstein, asked to reflect on the impact of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement on its 10th anniversary, called the organization “a counterweight to today’s climate
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Effective immediately, EMU has cancelled all public events through April 3 in response to concerns about COVID-19. The Colloquium with Dr. Saher Selod for March 18 will hopefully be rescheduled
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“The greatest athlete that I ever saw was another American Muslim … I was nine years old in those less enlightened times, the 1970s, when Ali fought George Foreman in
... read more about Muslim scholar and cultural critic talks history, theology, film and more during multi-day visit
Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) sent two students and two staff to the August 2019 Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois. The event is hosted by Interfaith
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Since 1998, undergraduate, graduate and alumni groups from Eastern Mennonite University and Eastern Mennonite Seminary have made the Tent of Nations farm outside of Bethlehem a regular stop on their
... read more about EMU hosts Tent of Nations’ Daoud Nassar, reciprocating hospitality after years of visits to his Palestine farm
The Eastern Mennonite University Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) held its fall reception in September to celebrate the previous academic year and note upcoming events. “What lessons have we learned?”
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Timothy Seidel, assistant professor of international development at Eastern Mennonite University, has been selected from a competitive, national pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching
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