MCUSA – ݮ Podcast /now/podcast Audio programs from ݮ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:06:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 “Maintaining Right Relationships” – Rev. Clyde Kratz /now/podcast/2016/04/05/maintaining-right-relationships-rev-clyde-kratz/ /now/podcast/2016/04/05/maintaining-right-relationships-rev-clyde-kratz/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:59:38 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/podcast/?p=4453 Your browser does not support the audio element.

Clyde Kratz,  Conference Minister, Virginia Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Church USA.

“Maintaining Right Relationships” ()

This is the second of two special Eastern Mennonite Seminary chapel presentations to help us discern our way through complexities related to denominational divisions rooted in different understandings of LGBTQ relationships.

Meredith McNabb, the March 29 presenter is Director of Clergy Excellence, Board of Ordained Ministries, Virginia United Methodist Conference, United Methodist Church. She spoke on “”

Clyde Kratz, the April 5 presenter, is Conference Minister, Virginia Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Church USA.

Neither presenter has been asked or agreed to provide all answers! Rather, both take into account that their national denominational assemblies have had or will be having difficult conversations amid sharp disagreements. Each reflects on what they have learned or implemented in their denominational leadership roles that may offer insights for the rest of us.

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celebrates the 65th Annual Commencement with an address by Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, Moderator of and Coordinator of field education, Lancaster Theological Seminary.
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]]> “The Most Important Thing you Can Learn in a Christian University” – Ervin Stutzman /now/podcast/2013/02/27/the-most-important-thing-you-can-learn-in-a-christian-university-ervin-stutzman/ Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:55:03 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/podcast/?p=2500
Hear what Dr. Ervin Stutzman, Executive Director of and former dean of , suggests is the most important thing you can learn in a Christian university.  This chapel concludes the major public events of Ervin’s two-day visit to the University to engage various groups on campus, including a Q&A discussion in .
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Dr. Ervin Stutzman, executive director of and former dean of , shares a message in Chapel Gathering in the .

The entire campus community is invited to every chapel worship service on campus. Eastern Mennonite Seminary hosts chapel gatherings in Martin Chapel every Tuesday and Thursday; EMU Campus Ministries hosts chapel gatherings every Wednesday and Friday in Lehman Auditorium. Specifics and occasional changes are noted in individual chapel listings.

]]> “Becoming Unbound” – André Gingerich Stoner /now/podcast/2012/11/09/becoming-unbound-andre-gingerich-stoner/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:01:57 +0000 http://emu.edu/now/podcast/?p=2251 Your browser does not support the audio element.

Becoming Unbound: A Martyr Legacy, Interchurch Dialogue and Undoing Racism

Mennonites experienced intense persecution nearly five hundred years ago. Does this still shape Mennonite identity and do the wounds linger? How might recent steps toward reconciliation with Lutherans open possibilities for healing and faithful witness?

André Gingerich Stoner is Director of and Holistic Witness for . Previously he served as Pastor of Mission at Kern Road Mennonite Church in South Bend, Indiana for sixteen years, and through Mennonite Central Committee engaged in peace witness among US GIs stationed in Germany. He and his wife Cathy and their children live as intentional neighbors with four other households in the near northwest neighborhood of South Bend, IN.

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