We’ve been through a lot since March. Gather for a facilitated healing space led by Katie Mansfield, Trina Trotter Nussbaum and Shannon Dycus.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us to pray for our community, our country and our world guided by prayers from the Iona Abbey Prayer Book.
Campus Worship for prayerful reflection
It’s the morning after the presidential election. Where are we now? What do you need and what do we need together? Gather for prayerful reflection drawing from the wisdom of several area spiritual directors offering reflections on holding space for prayerful awareness. Campus Pastors Kevin Clark and Brian Martin Burkholder will lead a litany of truth-telling with....
Chapel Gathering: Election Day Communion
Gather for a service featuring Election Day Communion. In the midst of the current polarization, meet God at the communion table. We will pray together: ‘Hear us Lord. Heal us Lord. Our hope is in you alone.
University Colloquium – Rick Shenkman
Why is Democracy so @#$&! Hard?Rick ShenkmanHistorian, Author, Investigative ReporterGeorge Washington University’s History News Network In the 1940s, six in ten Americans hadn’t gone past the eighth grade. Today a majority have attended college. But surveys show that Americans today are no better educated about politics. A majority don’t even know that we have three branches....
Convo-Election: Looking Forward Together
This election process has already been hard for many of us. Very hard. What will election day bring? What about post-election? How do we show up and hold this space that feels charged, tense and unsafe for many? Dean of Students Shannon Dycus and EMU student leaders call for “Facing the Election: Looking Forward Together” and President Susan Schultz....
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us for an All Saints Day Observance with candle lighting, remembrance prayers and a brief meditation by Courtney Joyner, Wesley Theological Seminary Liaison to the United Methodist seminary students.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us for the service of ministerial ordination in Virginia Mennonite Conference for Sarah Bixler, Instructor in Formation and Practical Theology. Rev. Clyde Kratz and Dr.Nancy Heisey will be officiating, with a meditation by Rev. Dr. Darrell Guder, Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Chapel Gathering: Seminary
Join us for a Service of Morning Prayers adapted from the book of Common Prayer with readings from Eugene Peterson’s The Jesus Way.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: VeRONAka film
Screening of VeRONAka with a response from filmmaker Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore of The Aunties Dandelion Project and a panel of EMU faculty and staff members.Panelists: Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore, Celeste Thomas, Jerry Holsopple, Katie Mansfield, and Tala Alngag Bautista with Kirsten Beachy as host. From Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore:The VeRONAka movie is a 10-minute comedy/drama with a documentary twist. The film is....