As the new director of KIPCOR at Bethel College, Eastern Mennonite Seminary alum Keren Kandel is living out the intersection of faith and justice. Through her time at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, she discovered how theology and conflict transformation are deeply intertwined.
What if small churches didn’t have to go it alone? Eastern Mennonite Seminary student Carmen Shenk is pioneering a new model for ministry—Riverside Anabaptist Collective, a network where small Anabaptist congregations can share resources, teaching, and worship while focusing on local ministry. “Small congregations have a superpower: creating belonging. When we belong, we are more open to believing.”
Seth Crissman ‘09, MDiv ‘15, has been selected by EMU’s Alumni Association and its Awards and Nominations Committee as the 2024 Outstanding Young Alum for his work through the collaborative faith-based ministry The Soil and The Seed Project.
Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Central Committee Central States and Eastern Mennonite Seminary provided an in-person conflict transformation training to 17 participants on Sept. 26-28, 2024, in Akron, Pennsylvania. The training was a potential model for future training sessions that will be offered more widely in the next year or two. The training was led by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, and Michelle Armster, with input from Rev. Dr. Jacob Alan Cook.
Eastern Mennonite University and Eastern Mennonite Seminary welcome five new full-time faculty to the ranks for the 2024-25 academic year.
A group of Mennonites and interfaith allies—many of them students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other members of the EMU and EMS community—marched more than 135 miles from Harrisonburg, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., on foot last month calling on lawmakers to support a cease-fire in Gaza.
The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in Peacemaking and Social Change program is an advanced, professionally oriented degree that will equip graduates to lead in faith-based settings, including in congregations, nonprofits, community organizing, and some teaching roles.
The 2024 Mennonite Higher Education Conference hosted by EMU on Tuesday, May 14, and Wednesday, May 15, drew about 90 faculty and staff members from Mennonite institutions across the U.S. and Canada.
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has announced the two recipients of its 2024-2025 Hertzler-Koshy Faculty Fellowship grant awards: Dr. David Evans and Dr. Kate Clark.
