Eastern Mennonite Seminary

EMS provides training programs and graduate degrees to prepare people for a variety of ministry and leadership roles in the church, academy and beyond. As an Anabaptist seminary, EMS has special emphasis in peacebuilding, biblical studies, spiritual formation and theology. We train leaders for Mennonite Church USA, and The United Methodist Church, as well as other denominations.

We offer classes at our Harrisonburg, Va. campus, at a variety of locations in southeast Pennsylvania through the Lancaster extension, and online.

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Seminary news

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    Greg Boyd’s Mega-Ministry Shows How ‘Anabaptism Makes Sense to People’

    July 30th, 2013

    Eastern Mennonite Seminary student Brad Kolb got a fresh perspective on Mennonite culture by immersing himself in an urban megachurch led by well-known author and pastor Greg Boyd. For 12 days in the late spring, Kolb traded the pastoral setting of his 180-member, tan-brick, steeple-topped Virginia church for a Minnesota church that welcomes thousands each ...More

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    Band Gives Old Hymns New Life

    June 19th, 2013

    The Walking Roots Band, a Harrisonburg, Virginia-based band made up of primarily Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) graduates, is taking centuries-old hymn texts and putting them to music that is accessible and appealing to younger Christians. Their first album “Shelter: A Hymn Reclamation Project” was released in June 2013. “There are many really meaningful texts in ...More

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