Campus Worship: Exploring Voices Together

Professor Benjamin Bergey leads this Hymn Sing featuring our new worship resource, Voices Together. Hear the stories behind the selected songs, prayers and more while also dedicating Voices Together for faith and spiritual nurture at EMU. Dr. Benjamin Bergey serves as Assistant Professor of Music at EMU and was the music editor for the Voices Together project.

Chapel Gathering: Seminary

“Nothing Can Happen Without Admitting Who We Are.” Rev. Crystal Sygeel, Associate Director for Call and Candidacy from the Office of Clergy Excellence will be our guest preacher.  She will preach from I Samuel 28:3-25 and Matthew 16:13-20. We welcome guests from the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Convocation: Jackie Font-Guzmán

Hear our EMU Executive Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Jackie Font-Guzmán, present her priorities for EMU in this address: Forging a community where we ALL belong and flourish. Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán (Jackie) serves as the inaugural executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, president’s office. She is also a tenured professor in the Center for Justice....

Campus Worship: Lies I Learned in Church

Jesus is Nice and Other Lies I Learned in Church with Melissa Florer-Bixler Pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler teaches from her newest book, How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, in which she looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies—who they are, what they do, and how Jesus and his....

Evening Lecture: Melissa Florer-Bixler

Is Polarization the Problem?: New Imagination for Times of Conflict with pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler. Pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler teaches from her newest book, How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, in which she looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies—who they are, what they do, and how Jesus....

Chapel Gathering: Seminary

Without Discerning the Body with Melissa Florer-Bixler Pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler teaches from her newest book, How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, in which she looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies—who they are, what they do, and how Jesus and his followers responded to them. Melissa Florer-Bixler is....

University Colloquium: Matthew Siderhurst

Fruit Fly Control in Mangoes on the Pacific Rim: Research Collaborations, Technology Transfer, and Zoom Matthew SiderhurstProfessor of ChemistryEastern Mennonite University Tephritid fruit flies are among the most damaging horticultural pests worldwide, damaging fruits and vegetables through the tropics and subtropics.  Areawide pest management, in which neighboring farmers coordinate their control practices, has the potential....

Convocation: Eboo Patel (IFYC)

Join Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, for a convocation address entitled, We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy. We live in a molten era where so much is changing and therefore anything is possible. Will America become a nightmare or a dream? So much depends on leaders like....