Eastern Mennonite University
This article is from the EMU News Archive. The approximate date of publication was in March 2003. Current EMU news is available at www.emu.edu/news
 
   
 

The U.S.-Iraq war is stirring a host of feelings and responses on a university campus in the Anabaptist Mennonite peace church tradition that has as part of its mission statement "to answer Christ's call to a life of nonviolence, witness, service and peacebuilding."

A number of responses have already occurred, and others will surely follow. Several initial statements and activities are provided here for your thoughtful reflection.

   
    The ringing of "the unity bell" (nightly at 7:30)
    EMU students assemble relief kits (4/15)
    Sleeping in tents, raising awareness (4/10)
    CTP Response to war in Iraq (4/09)
    EMU administration response (3/28)
    Fighting laws of human nature Ron Kraybill (3/26)
    Why must the nations rage? Jim Bishop (3/25)
    Chapel service reflects on U.S-Iraq conflict (3/24)
    EMS issues statement on Iraqi conflict (3/13)
    The Economic Consequences of War Richard A. Yoder (3/11)
    "Serious about peace?..." Ron Kraybill (3/10)
    One View from Iraq on the Eve of War Micah Keller Shristi (1/31)