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  • Students Recognized for Spring Semester Achievements

    May 6th, 2013

    The following Eastern Mennonite University students received awards for outstanding achievement or service at the spring semester student recognition chapel in April 2013. The list for athletic achievement and the dean’s list for the fall semester follow. Academic Support Center Seniors Darian Harnish – Tutor of the year; business tutor and business writing tutor Erika …More

  • Shane Claibourne, Christian activist and bestselling author, addresses hundreds in Lehman Auditorium of Eastern Mennonite University on lessons to be drawn from Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Lindsey Kolb)

    Shane Claiborne Challenges Students to Address Injustice

    January 22nd, 2013

    For Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) student Brad Mullet, part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy means volunteerism. (Check out photos of MLK Day!) Mullet, a 19-year-old sophomore from Berlin, Ohio, joined fellow students Monday afternoon helping to clean up Blacks Run in Harrisonburg. The volunteer project was one of more than a dozen events organized …More

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    Shane Claiborne To Lead EMU in Remembering King

    January 17th, 2013

    Prominent Christian activist, author and dynamic speaker, Shane Claiborne, will lead Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. during university chapel on Monday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. In addition, EMU is teaming up with the United Way of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County and the Northeast Neighborhood for the first annual Martin Luther …More

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    University Chapel Ushers in Christmas Season

    December 4th, 2012

    Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) will usher in the Christmas season on Monday, Dec. 10, at 4:30 p.m., in Lehman Auditorium with a university chapel on the theme, “Love still takes the risk of birth.” “We offer this chapel as a gift to the greater EMU community and neighborhood, celebrating the faithfulness and transforming love of …More

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    UPDATE: Election-Day Communion Sweeping Across Nation

    November 5th, 2012

    A CNN blog explaining the call for an election-day communion, written by Mennonite pastor Mark Schloneger (a graduate of EMU’s seminary), has attracted over 3,000 comments and even more “likes.” Nearly 800 congregations, schools, and groups in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., have declared that they are holding an election-day communion. Sixty-five of these communions will be in …More

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