Campus Guests
People from all walks of life find a home at EMU. Adult professional students include people finishing a bachelor’s degree, as well as experts in the fields of counseling, conflict transformation and organizational development. Seminary students discern their call. Undergraduate students prepare to serve and lead. All are on a higher education journey, and we are blessed to be joined by visiting scholars and artists often. Read about recent campus guests …
Updated: NYC Director Brings Rich Background to “Arms and the Man,” April 5-6
March 25th, 2013The lovely leading lady must choose between two men – one viewed as a war hero, though he is foolhardy, and one viewed as a coward, hiding with chocolates on his person instead of gun cartridges – in “Arms and the Man,” a George Bernard Shaw comedy staged by Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. …More
Writers Read Author Discusses Leaving the Amish
March 19th, 2013Saloma Miller Furlong always liked the way Burlington, Vt., looked in her school history books. So, when she decided to leave her Ohio Amish community at the age of 20, that’s where she headed. When she got there, she felt like a new person. “I got my dream job as a waitress at Pizza Hut,” …More
Upcoming Writers Read Author Left Amish for Freedom and Education
February 21st, 2013What would cause you to leave your faith? Saloma Miller Furlong, an author who grew up in and left an Amish community in Ohio, will be the last “Writers Read Dinner and Author series,” guest of the year on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 5:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU) Martin Chapel. Furlong will read …More
Seattle Mennonite Couple Lead Fight to Prevent Extinction of Indigenous People Due to Mercury Poisoning
February 7th, 2013What is now an all-consuming campaign started quietly nine years ago, with a routine U.S. government contract for environmental toxicologist Dan Peplow, a long-time member of Seattle Mennonite Church. So learned about 100 people at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) on Feb. 6, 2013, as they listened to guest speaker Sarah Augustine, now married to Peplow. …More
Student Academy Award Winning Artist to Premiere Work at EMU
January 25th, 2013Tal Shamir, a 2011 Student Academy Award winner, will premiere his latest video installation, “Di-Framing Vermeers,” on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Margaret Martin Gehman Art Gallery at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). The installation will include raw footage from Shamir’s 2011 Academy Award winning film, “The Vermeers.” Shamir proposes to exhibit Jan …More