Peace Catalyst Podcast

Dr. Miroslav Volf and Hurunnessa Fariad, two of our first ever Rick Love Peacemaker Award winners, join our President, Martin Brooks, for this conversation about  the "why" and "how" of embracing 'the other.' The conversation is based around Dr. Volf’s book, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.

LINKS:

Peace Catalyst International website: www.peacecatalyst.org

Rick Love Awards: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/rick-love-award-recipients

Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/

Miroslav Volf's books: https://www.amazon.com/Miroslav-Volf/e/B001IGJSHG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10&qid=1660078768&sr=1-10

Exclusion & Embrace book: https://amzn.to/3BPKNv3

Multifaith Neighbors Network: www.mfnn.org

Steve is a Hong Kong-based travel writer, educator, and speaker who has been the Head of Christian and Community Development at Yew Chung Education Foundation for more than a decade. Steve is an experienced adventurer, having completed numerous cross-country journeys including the 500 mile Camino de Santiago in Spain and the 1100 mile Via Francigena from England to Rome. He hosts the Beyond The Pale podcast, which explores living life and spiritual faith through the lens of pilgrimage. 

LINKS:

Beyond the Pale podcast

Yew Chung Education Foundation

Seeds of Hope program

Support the podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast

Edited by Nicole Gibson

Music: Soulmates by Yigit Atilla

Julia Bacha is a Peabody and Guggenheim Award-winning filmmaker, media strategist, and Creative Director at JustVision, an organization that fills a media gap on Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement. She has strategically used documentary film and multimedia to foster constructive conversation on some of the most divisive issues of our times. Julia’s work has been exhibited at the Sundance, Berlin, and Tribeca film festivals; has been broadcast on the BBC, HBO, and Al-Jazeera; and has screened at widely diverse settings from refugee camps and villages to the halls of the American Congress and European Parliament. Her TEDTalk, “Pay Attention to Nonviolence,” was selected as one of the best talks of 2011 by the TED curators and has been viewed by over half a million people worldwide. 

LINKS

• Julia’s TEDTalk "Pay Attention to Nonviolence": https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_bacha_pay_attention_to_nonviolence

Support the podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast

After serving as a licensed and ordained minister for over 20 years, Keith left his full-time pastoral ministry to start a house church that gave away 100% of the offering to help the poor in their community. After 11 years, Keith and his wife Wendy moved to El Paso, TX, where they now work as peacebuilders in their local community. Keith is also a prolific writer and the author of many books, including Jesus Unarmed: How the Prince of Peace Disarms Our Violence. 

LINKS:

Keith's website: www.keithgiles.com

Second Cup With Keith podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/second-cup-with-keith/id1595608177

Support the Peace Catalyst Podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast

Peace Catalyst website: www.peacecatalyst.org

Edited by Nicole Gibson

Music: Soulmates by Yigit Atilla

Lisa Sharon Harper leads trainings that increase clergy and community leaders’ capacity to organize people of faith toward a just world. She’s a prolific speaker, writer, and activist as well as the Founder and President of Freedom Road U.S., a consulting group dedicated to shrinking the narrative gap in our nation by designing forums and experiences that bring common understanding, common commitment, and common action. She’s the author of several books, including Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican or Democrat and the critically acclaimed The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. 

MORE LINKS:

Connecting in Conflict course

Lisa's newest book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World - and How to Repair It All 

Freedom Road

Edited by Nicole Gibson

Music: Soulmates by Yigit Atilla 

Support the podcast at https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-podcast

Based in Minneapolis, Peter leads trainings in conflict transformation, nonviolence, trauma awareness and healing, and community-based peacebuilding. Peter is Peace Catalyst's Director of Formation and Minneapolis Program Director. Together with his wife, Liz, he is equipping community peacemakers and collaborating with others specifically in the areas of racial justice and healing.

LINKS:

Donate to help develop peacebuilding courses and trainings: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/peacemaking-skills-training

Nonviolent Communication Course: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/nonviolent-communication

Connecting in Conflict Course: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/connecting-in-conflict

CPN (Christian Peacebuilding Network): https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianpeacebuildingnetwork

Edited and produced by Nicole Gibson

Becca Tyvoll is Peace Catalyst Program Director in the Washington, D.C. area and our very own podcast host! Previously, we did a series interviewing Peace Catalyst staff, and today it's Becca's turn to talk about Peace Catalyst's work in D.C. Becca has a Bachelor's from American University and a Masters in International Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Learn more about Becca at https://www.peacecatalyst.org/beccapugh

Edited and produced by Nicole Gibson

Jud Hendrix is the Executive Director of Interfaith Paths to Peace in Louisville, KY, a grassroots community peacemaking organization that serves the community by bringing people of different faiths, races, cultures, traditions, and philosophies together for the purpose of interfaith understanding and social justice based on the principles of peace.

Interfaith Paths to Peace: https://paths2peace.org

Edited by Nicole Gibson

Jason Porterfield is a peacemaker and author of the book, Fight Like Jesus, which explores the radical vision of peacemaking that Jesus embodied throughout Holy Week. The book takes the reader through each day of the week, unpacking the peacemaking principles and practices that might be commonly glossed over in our accounts of the week leading up to Jesus’s death and resurrection.

Edited and produced by Nicole Gibson

Sarah and Jonathan Nahar specialize in nonviolent action training. Sarah is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Syracuse, NY, focusing on ecological regeneration, community cultivation, and spiritual activism. Sarah was a 2019 Rotary Peace Fellow and worked at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, GA. She has been the Executive Director of Community Peacemaker Teams, which is an organization doing third-party nonviolent intervention in areas of lethal conflict worldwide. Jonathan has also been a leader in Community Peacemaker Teams and has been active in Palestinian liberation activism and countering Christian Zionism.

LINKS:

Community Peacemaker Teams: https://cpt.org

Stir Up Peace video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL93LFx-9e_ygNKEibtFEaQUnIya3SYulW

Salim Munayer podcast interview (Episode #7): https://peacecatalystpodcast.podbean.com/e/salim-munayer-reconciliation-in-israel-palestine/

Telos: https://www.telosgroup.org

Edited and produced by Nicole Gibson