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  • Faith powders and paper toads—Young Center explores the weird world of Pietist conversions

    Faith powders and paper toads—Young Center explores the weird world of Pietist conversions

    Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies invited Dr. Jonathan Strom to discuss some old books. Strom won the Young Center’s Dale W. Brown Book Award for his own book, “German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion,” back in 2019. But, his book talks about some other books much older than that. Strom

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  • Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Elizabethtown College hosted the New Playwrights Festival 2021 on Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. This year’s performance was hosted in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center rather than Tempest Theater to better abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines. Sock & Buskin worked in conjunction with ECTV to stream the shows, as viewership was entirely

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  • Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Wednesday, Feb. 17, as part of the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Inclusion] and Title IX’s series of Black History Month events, Asst. Dean of Students at Capital Law School and Diversity, Equityand Inclusion Consultant Dr. Marcelius Braxton gave a webinar presentation on anti-racism.  Drawing from his background as an educator, Braxton has taken the

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  • Etown Alumna Amita Mehta discusses career success as part of Executive Lecture Series

    Etown Alumna Amita Mehta discusses career success as part of Executive Lecture Series

    Feb. 12, Elizabethtown College alumna Amita Mehta spoke to Etown students as part of the Executive Lecture Series. This series is sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery and the Etown Department of Business, of which Dr. Krichevskiy, associate professor of economics, is the coordinator.  Mehta’s lecture, titled, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Lessons

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  • Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    With the world’s first Valentine’s Day in quarantine quickly approaching, many people find themselves considering just how drastically relationship norms changed since last March. Couples in long-term relationships have been forced to go extended periods of time without seeing one another, and healthy marriages have been challenged by heightened tensions and stay-at-home orders. Perhaps the

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  • Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse Waters tells it like it is. For the past several years, he has hosted Super Science Saturday, a lecture series for whipping engineering students’ writing into shape. Feb. 5, Waters Zoomed with a small group of Elizabethtown College’s engineering students to give the second talk in this semester’s

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