Convocation: Reflections from Vietnam
Lean in for personal reflections from Vietnam addressing themes in the 2022-2023 EMU Common Read, The Best We Could Do. Panelists include: Yung Trinh, Rebecca Dietz, Earl Martin and Caleb Schrock-Hurst being interviewed by Professor Kevin Seidel.
Seminary Chapel: The Lord Provides
“The Lord Provides” – Join us as we learn how the Lord provides the gifts of strength, mercy, grace, faith and love. These gifts are even provided to those whom the church may perceive to be unlikely candidates. 1 Tim. 1:12-17
Campus Worship: Symbolic Sand Art
Join artist, Katie Jo Suddaby, for a live creation of symbolic sand art as a meditative spiritual practice and expression of faith inspired by the song, My Love Colors Outside the Lines (Voices Together 582). Will Stutzman will help hold and form our shared space with original music.
Convocation: Dismantling Patriarchy
Join the campus community in hearing from Sue Park Hur as stories of women encountered through the Laboring Toward Wholeness – A Training on Dismantling Patriarchy curriculum and personal stories are woven and featured.
Seminary Chapel: Jacob Cook
“The Living Water is Deeper than Our Religious Worldviews” – Join us as Jacob Cook, Pathways Grant Director, applies the worldview theory to Jesus’ conversation with the woman from Samaria at Jacob’s well. John 4:5-42
Seminary Chapel: Rev. Ashley Isernhagen
Join us as Seminary student, Rev. Ashley Isernhagen leads us in contemplative meditation, as we experience this Lenten season.
Campus Worship: What is Ash Wednesday?
Have you heard of Ash Wednesday but never really understood it? Why dosome Christians smudge ashes on their foreheads on this day? What meaning does this ritual have for some followers of Jesus? Are there other ways to acknowledge humility before God?
Seminary Chapel: Hope Without Wavering
“Hope Without Wavering” – Join us to hear Rev. Brett Isernhagen explore the traditions of Lent, Shrove Tuesday, Shrovetide, and Ash Wednesday. How do Christians approach the ideas of repentance and confession, and their connection to God’s love and eternal life? Hebrews 10:19-25
University Colloquium: Martha Eads
Resources for Recovery: Reading Ron Rash’s Short Stories Alongside Formerly Incarcerated WomenMartha Greene Eads, PhDProfessor of EnglishEastern Mennonite University
Convocation: Double Crossed – George Johnson
Join the EMU Community in celebrating Black History Month with speaker George Johnson ’11. Former EMU star athlete and now author, George Johnson, returns to Eastern Mennonite University to share his triumphant story of Double Crossed. Johnson speaks on his journey leading up to, during and life after his tenure as a Royal.