Gather with the Latino Student Alliance (LSA) for a Holy Week worship service, around the freshly prepared alfombra, to welcome Jesus in this Holy Week for Christians. —– Sawdust carpets (Spanish: tapetes de aserrín), similar to alfombras, are one or more layers of colored sawdust, and sometimes other additional materials, laid on the ground as decoration. Sawdust carpets....

J. Drew Lanham, PhD, is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and....

Eastern Mennonite Seminary Student David Gingerich preaches from Philippians 3:2-14 with his reflections on, “Another ‘Worthless’ Degree: Reflections on an MDiv”

Faculty and graduating undergraduate students reflect on callings and vocation inspired by the common read, Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work. Music from The Clymer Kurtz Band is featured. Christopher Clymer Kurtz is staff writer for EMU Marketing and Communications. -Ann Hershberger, professor emerita, Director of Cross-Cultural Programs & Professor of Nursing, 33 years of service at EMU -Kim....

The annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest, established in 1974 by the directors of the C. Henry Smith Trust, offers students an opportunity to discuss peacebuilding and social justice issues on campus. The intercollegiate competition is administered by the Peace and Justice Ministries of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Undergraduate students from every Mennonite and....

Reflect on the wonder of God’s forgiveness as Seminary Professor Andrea Saner preaches on Luke 5: 17-26. “Strange things: reflections on forgiveness and reconciliation.”

Third year Seminary student D.J. Mitchell preaches:  “Addiction and Church: Let the Light Shine in the Darkness.”  Addiction is a topic that touches nearly every home and church in some way. Listen and learn how the church could be responding with the light of God’s love.