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May 25
1 min

Webinar with the United States Institute of Peace

is past week we were honored to have our first webinar with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Megan Chabalowski. After my f...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Apr 2
1 min

New Video for the Master of Music Education Program

The application deadline for the 2020 cohort of the Master of Music Education Program at Elizabethtown College is fast approaching. Visit...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Mar 14
1 min

Resources for COVID-19 for Music Teacher Education and Ethnomusicology

I am very grateful that so many are finding our resources so useful during such an usual time of change and stress. I have made full-feat...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Jan 31
2 min

Conversation on World Church Girl

I had the recent privilege of being interviewed by Lillian Harshaw of Worldly Church Girl. For me jumping to other side of the podcast mi...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Nov 21, 2019
2 min

Timely relevance and challenge of the Anabaptist tradition

Reposted from the Church of the Brethren Newsline, November 18, 2019 Kevin Shorner-Johnson Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren was...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Aug 7, 2019
1 min

Master of Music Education Featured in the Press!

This summer we have been fortunate to have incredible press coverage from the Lancaster newspaper on our first-in-the-world Master of Mus...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Jun 20, 2019
4 min

Embracing Hospitality through Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena

By Kevin Shorner-Johnson Clap-Clap-Clap, Clap-Clap. With 25 minutes to go before the concert started the audience was already clapping cl...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

May 16, 2019
2 min

The Magic of an Artistic Peacebuilding Class

As the Artistic Peacebuilding class drew to a close, many of us looked around the room unwilling to leave a space that had become sacred....

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

May 13, 2019
4 min

Press Release for the Master of Music Education Program Emphasizing Peacebuilding

Two thirds of children in the United States report at least one traumatic event by age 16.[1] Whether the traumas are assault, neglect, e...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Apr 30, 2019
3 min

Silk Road Explores Peacemaking @ E-town College

On April 11th, it was our pleasure to host The Silk Road at the Elizabethtown College Ware Lecture on Peacemaking. This powerful ensemble...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Mar 15, 2019
1 min

Master of Music Education to Launch with Emphasis in Peacebuilding

This next month, Elizabethtown College will launch the first-in-the-world Master of Music Education that rooted in frameworks of peacebui...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Mar 14, 2019
2 min

Interfaith Perspectives of Care

We have long known that there was something uniquely spiritual in the work of Fred Rogers. His ability to penetrate the TV screen with hi...

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Kevin Shorner-Johnson

Mar 6, 2019
1 min

Artistic Peacebuilding Piano Painting

In the first-of-its-kind course at Elizabethtown College, students studied artistic peacebuilding through the painting of a piano. With g...

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