Seminary senior, Rosemary Grace, shares her Ministry Specialization Project, “Preaching and Mental Health,” including both her topical presentation and sermon on Galatians 5:22-23, “For His Grace and Fruit We are Thankful.”
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us for a Thanksgiving-themed chapel service led by the Seminary Community Council. Steve Pardini, seminary senior, will offer the message “Giving Thanks” based on Colossians 3:12-16. Seminary students, Furst Jenkins, Kimberly Shenk, Ezrionna Prioleau, and Barbara Bowman will also be leading us. Music will be provided by Perry Blosser and Caleb Schrock-Hurst.
University Colloquium: Jenni Holsinger
This seminar will be presented in person, and also livestreamed on EMU’s Facebook Live page. Ruralism and Resistance: Environmental Concern Among Mennonites in the U.S. Jennifer Holsinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at Eastern Mennonite University The case of Mennonites offers an opportunity to examine the intersection between rurality, religion and environmental perspectives. Drawing from her sabbatical....
Campus Worship: Justice/Mercy Reflection
Join Faith and Spiritual Life Affiliates to hear their reflections on themes in the EMU Common Read, Just Mercy. Come to hear scripture and reflections on times when they’ve experienced someone treated unjustly and times when mercy was needed as a restorative action. Focuses will be on racial injustice, criminal justice, brokenness in communities, etc. Let’s....
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Senior Presentation: Furst Jenkins, artist, shares her Capstone Project “Window of My Soul” – featuring original paintings and accompanying narrative.
Convocation: Let’s Talk: Stalking at EMU
Safer Together Peer Educators take on convocation to talk about stalking on EMU’s campus and what we can do about it.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us as we observe Native American Heritage Month: See the Bible with new eyes, with readings from the “First Nations Version” of the New Testament.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary – Sarah Nahar
MLK & the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Come hear Sarah Nahar, a scholar-activist from the Potowatomi traditional land, Elkhart, IN. A Rotary Peace Fellow (Thailand), 2018 Generations Fellow at MLK Jr Center for Nonviolent Social Change (Georgia), received her MDiv from AMBS, did MCC work in Jerusalem, and has participated in feminist anti-war movements.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us as we commemorate All Saints Day. We remember with song, scripture, and prayer – those whom we love who have passed into blessed memory and dwell in the community of Saints.
University Colloquium: Andrea Saner
“In Many and Various Ways”: how the Ten Commandments and Covenant Code became Torah Andrea SanerAssociate Professor of Bible, Religion, and TheologyEastern Mennonite University Theological interpretation of scripture began in the 1990s as a Christian movement within English-language theology and biblical studies, as scholars rallied around a shared critique of historical criticism. Recently, the battle....