Crossroads Spring 2009 - Alumni Magazine of Eastern Mennonite University

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c / TED KOONTZ

d / ANITA STALTER

e / MARY SCHERTZ

f / MARTI EADS

Traits of Mennonite colleges

photo by lindsey Roeschly

based scholarship. Thankfully, AMBS cherishes both scholarship and relationships.” d / ANITA

ship for the complex challenges we face in an increasingly globalized world." e / MARY SCHERTZ

three colleagues at AMBS who are Old and New Testament scholars. f / MARTI EADS / WAKE FOREST

STALTER / EMU, BS ’79 / MICHIGAN STATE, PhD ’97 / GOSHEN, vice-president for academic affairs &

/ GOSHEN, BA ’71 / VANDERBILT U., PhD ’93 / AMBS,

U., BA ’83, MA ’93 / UNC-CHAPEL HILL, MA ’96, PhD ’01 / EMU professor of English / “I'm Episcopalian,

academic dean / Doctoral degree is in teaching, curriculum and educational policy. / Instrumental in establishing Goshen's Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning. / Collaborates with teaching and administrative colleagues "to design curriculum that incorporates the college's Anabaptist vision, liberal arts foundation, and international resources to prepare studenrs to assume leader-

New Testament professor / Lives near AMBS and loves her “great neighborhood, where a third are Hispanic, a third are African American, and a third are Caucasian.” / At Vanderbilt, enjoyed being in an ecumenical environment “with Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, Jews and people who didn’t have any religious background,” enabling her to “hone my arguments for pacifist interpretations of the Scripture.” / Appreciates having

but I’m glad that EMU’s leaders seek to serve God's kingdom through serving the Mennonite Church. Doing so helps the university maintain its Christian identity. I would love, however, to see the Mennonite Church and colleges do more to groom their students for careers as faculty members… Mennonite students tend to look first to careers that seem more obviously missional.” www.emu.edu | crossroads | 9


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