Eastern Mennonite Seminary : 2005 Seminar
Project Report
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Eastern Mennonite Seminary is a graduate division of Eastern Mennonite University, located in the heart of the scenic and historic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. While the seminary and university are Mennonite in church association with a slight majority of students who hail from Mennonite congregations, our student body and faculty are becoming more culturally, denominationally and religiously diverse. For fifteen years, we have included a cross-cultural course as a core requirement within our Master of Divinity program. While most of our faculty and a fair number of students have had significant cross-cultural experiences prior to coming to EMS, we continue to discern that our readiness to engage diversity is an area in which we all have much more to learn. When invited by the Lexington Seminar to undertake a faculty project, the EMS faculty agreed that our primary issue in teaching and learning may best be expressed in the following two questions: How can we effectively engage the “other” to fulfill our mission as a seminary? How can we best equip our students to engage the “other” in ways that enhance God’s mission in the world? ...
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Eastern Mennonite Seminary is a graduate division of Eastern Mennonite University, located in the heart of the scenic and historic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. While the seminary and university are Mennonite in church association with a slight majority of students who hail from Mennonite congregations, our student body and faculty are becoming more culturally, denominationally and religiously diverse. For fifteen years, we have included a cross-cultural course as a core requirement within our Master of Divinity program. While most of our faculty and a fair number of students have had significant cross-cultural experiences prior to coming to EMS, we continue to discern that our readiness to engage diversity is an area in which we all have much more to learn. When invited by the Lexington Seminar to undertake a faculty project, the EMS faculty agreed that our primary issue in teaching and learning may best be expressed in the following two questions: How can we effectively engage the “other” to fulfill our mission as a seminary? How can we best equip our students to engage the “other” in ways that enhance God’s mission in the world? ...
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