Campus Worship: Just Mercy
Join our storytellers for reflections on themes in the EMU Common Read, Just Mercy. Come to hear scripture and reflections on times when someone incarcerated was treated unjustly and when mercy was needed as a restorative action. Reflections will focus on themes like racial injustice, criminal justice, brokenness in communities, transformation and restoration. Let’s ask together,....
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Dr. Timothy Reardon will lead us in a scholarly presentation on Luke 1:67-79 entitled “The Benedictus as Test Case for Theopolitical Interpretation.”
Convocation: Rei Berrora
Convocation is partnering with Writers Read to host Dr. Reo Berroa for the convocation address: The Earth Belongs to Each and All of Us.Dr. Rei Berroa’s work centers around language, building peace and dissent, ethics (the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth), social justice, gender and racial diversity and equality, ecopoetics, and compassionate....
Campus Worship: Exploring VoicesTogether
Professor Benjamin Bergey and the Chamber Singers lead this hymn sing style service featuring our new worship resource, Voices Together. This service will look at each of the works of art in the hymnal, along with the song that is on its facing page. We will experience the interplay of the songs and visual art. This....
University Colloquium: Peter Dula
This seminar will be presented in person, and also livestreamed on EMU’s Facebook Live page. Theology and Ethics After Nature Peter DulaProfessor of Religion and CultureEastern Mennonite University Can nature tell us anything about morality? Can humans draw conclusions about how to live with each other and the land from observations about ecology? In recent years,....
MLK, Jr. Convocation: Glen Guyton
Gather for the annual MLK Day of Learning, Service, and Legacy Convocation with the theme “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” (1958).....
Opening Convocation & Worship
Join President Susan Schultz Huxman to open our spring semester with the address, Ready, Set, Launch 2022! Provost Fred Kniss will welcome all to the new year and the Guatemala Intercultural Seminar group will be prayerfully sent at the close of the program.
Convocation: Intercultural Presentation
Welcome the fall semester Intercultural seminar group back to campus and hear what they encountered on their learning adventures in Thailand. This event is available via Facebook Live from our EMU Facebook page.
Convocation: Student Recognition
In the Fall semester Student Recognition Convocation, we will recognize students who have contributed to the common good for all of us. Please nominate undergraduate or graduate students and/or student organizations/clubs/groups below for the following awards: Amazing Leadership – provided significant leadership across campusAcademic Champion – contributed significantly to the academic success of othersMover and Shaker – helped....
Convocation: Vocation – finding purpose
What is your sense of calling, purpose, finding meaning in life – your vocation? Encounter a panel of EMU alumni sharing reflections on finding their sweet spot for an engaging and purposeful life. Shannon Dycus, Dean of Students, facilitates this panel discussion. A learning space around convocation theme of vocation to: -help define concept and....