Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Bonnie Price Lofton

Dec. 19, 2011 issue

• EMU alumna accepts Nobel Peace Prize

  Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10 in Oslo, Norway, Leymah Gbowee called on women around the world to unite in sisterhood.

Oct. 31, 2011 issue

• Liberian Nobel Prize winner, EMU alumna, is well connected to peace-church tradition

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee is closely connected with Mennonites and the peace-church tradition.

July 11, 2011 issue

• The dignity of malaria victims

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — An Eastern Mennonite University economics professor is a major player in a debate among malaria experts regarding the best way to reduce incidences of the disease.

May 16, 2011 issue

• Fuel for extremism is beyond bin Laden, EMU prof says

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Pakistan-based graduates of Eastern Mennonite University say U.S. military policy in their country has fed extremism and that, sadly, such extremism may not subside with the death of Osama bin Laden.

April 25, 2011 issue

• Without love, we’re dead

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Scholars at a recent conference shared biological, psychological and spiritual evidence on why people are intended to live in relationships.

April 18, 2011 issue

• Voice for the undocumented

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Isa­bel Castillo, a 2007 Eastern Mennonite University graduate, has become a nationally recognized spokesperson for undocumented young people in the United States.

Feb. 28, 2011 issue

• Muslims, Christians want better relations

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Participants in an interfaith meeting at Eastern Mennonite University sought better understanding between Morocco’s Muslims and U.S. evangelical Christians.

Aug. 2, 2010 issue

• EMU grad speaks up for undocumented students

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — For years, Isabel Castillo lived in the shadows in Harrisonburg.

April 19, 2010 issue

• Character shines through in success, adversity at EMU

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Amid the hoopla surrouding the Eastern Mennonite University men’s basketball team’s No. 4 national ranking in NCAA Division III, many fans remarked on the team’s exemplary behavior.

Feb. 2, 2009 issue

• Virginia Tech peace center gets an assist from EMU

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Twenty-one months ago, Jerzy Nowak, a professor, was writing a grant at Virginia Tech when student Seung-Hui Cho began a shooting rampage.

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