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End Slavery Tennessee's (ESTN) joins PEACE TALKS to share their mission of promoting healing of survivors and strategically combating human trafficking in Tennessee. ESTN began as a grassroots nonprofit but is now the regional point of contact agency for human trafficking referrals in the 41 counties of Middle Tennessee. ESTN is currently creating a Survivor Restoration Campus that will offer a 2-year Residential Program that begins and ends with safe and stable housing, an oasis where survivors will build community for healing, housing and hope. In this interview, ESTN reveals the importance of addressing human trafficking through advocacy, prevention and training of front-line professionals.

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About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace: 
Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we’ve created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.

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#christianity #biblicaljustice #christians #multiethnic #leadership #sextrafficking #humantrafficking #traffickingsurvivors #injustice #Jesus #culture  #socialjustice #endslaveryTN

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Curtis Zackery ["CZ"] joins PEACE TALKS to discuss what it means to truly rest, how Jesus embodied rest, and how the need for rest is deeply embedded in our human DNA. CZ is a pastor at Church of the City in Franklin, Tennessee, and author of Soul Rest: Reclaim Your Life. Return to Sabbath. CZ also helms an organization called Find Rest that seeks to help spiritually depleted Christian leaders find rest. In this interview, he reveals how our misaligned view of rest has its roots in an identity that is out of rhythm with God, and how practicing Sabbath guides us toward a purposeful and sustainable life with Jesus.

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About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace: 
Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we’ve created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.

*Connect with The Center Online!*
Visit The Center's Website: https://centerfjp.org
Follow The Center on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centerfjp
Follow The Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CenterFjp
Follow The Center on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerfjp/

Watch the full episode here. https://youtu.be/XVYmihj6Jsc

#christianity #biblicaljustice #christians #multiethnic #leadership #womeninleadership #decolonialism #cubanwomen #crosscultural #injustice #Jesus #culture  #socialjustice #curtiszackery #FindRest #SoulRest #sustainablespirituality

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Dr. Soong-Chan Rah joins PEACE TALKS to talk about lament as a practice of disruption, the persistent narrative of white superiority, and the dangers of Western cultural captivity. A well-known pastor, author and speaker, Dr. Rah is the Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Seminary and has written many books, most recently Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. In this interview, Dr. Rah explores how we as Christians are called to give up our historical dominance and embrace a greater mutuality, equality and reciprocity.

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About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace: 
Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we’ve created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.

*Connect with The Center Online!*
Visit The Center's Website: https://centerfjp.org
Follow The Center on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centerfjp
Follow The Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CenterFjp
Follow The Center on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerfjp/

Watch the full episode here. https://youtu.be/Sf-ASjcrBQ8

#christianity #biblicaljustice #christians #multiethnic #leadership #doctrineofdiscovery #crosscultural #AAPI #asianleaders #injustice #Jesus #culture  #socialjustice #evangelicalcovenantchurch #fullerseminary #soongchanrah #propheticlament

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Anthony Hendricks joins PEACE TALKS to share his work in the world of racial reconciliation. Anthony is a pastor and speaker who teaches on urgent issues of biblical unity, race, justice and anti-racism at universities, churches, schools, and businesses around the country. In this interview, he dives into his vision for holistic peace making and peace building and why American Christians are so often compelled by the culture rather than the cross. 

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» About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace: 
Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we’ve created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.

*Connect with The Center Online!*
Visit The Center's Website: https://centerfjp.org
Follow The Center on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centerfjp
Follow The Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CenterFjp
Follow The Center on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerfjp/

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#christianity #biblicaljustice #christians #multiethnic #multiethnicministry #injustice #evangelicalism #Jesus #culture #racialreconciliation #socialjustice #anthonyhendricks

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Gabrielle Beam joins PEACE TALKS to talk about the lifelong connection between literacy and justice. Gabrielle is a seasoned inner-city pastor and the founder of Rise to Read, an organization focused on eliminating early childhood illiteracy in her home of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Gabrielle shares about the well-trodden path from illiteracy to incarceration, ways she helps kids begin reading on level, and what happened when Rise to Read began to distribute the Jesus Storybook Bible. 

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About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace: 
Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we’ve created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.

*Connect with The Center Online!*
Visit The Center's Website: https://centerfjp.org
Follow The Center on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centerfjp
Follow The Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CenterFjp
Follow The Center on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerfjp/

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/YWyEfd7wIlA

#peacemaking #justice #love #christians #injustice #literacy #illiteracy #literacyandjustice #justiceandliteracy #risetoread #gabriellebeam #bridgeportCT

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Bishop Todd Hunter and Vanessa Sadler welcome the great Justin Giboney on this episode of Peace Talks. Tune in for a rich conversation full of biblical truths and responsible activism.

Justin Giboney is an attorney, political strategist and ordained minister in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Co-Founder and President of the AND Campaign, which is a coalition of urban Christians who are determined to address the sociopolitical arena with the compassion and conviction of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mr. Giboney has managed successful campaigns for elected officials in the state and referendums relating to the city’s transportation and water infrastructure.

https://www.andcampaign.org/

https://www.instagram.com/justinegiboney/

https://twitter.com/JustinEGiboney

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Co-hosts Vanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd kick off Season 2 of Peace talks with Sheila Wise Rowe. Sheila is a truth-teller who writes passionately about matters of faith and emotional healing. She advocates for the dignity, rights, and healing of abuse survivors, those carrying racial trauma, and racial conciliation. 

For over twenty-five years Sheila has been a counselor, educator, writer, spiritual director, and speaker. She is a member of the Community Ethics Committee of Harvard Medical School, a policy-review resource for its teaching hospitals. She is a member of the Redbud Writers Guild and writes essays for several publications including; The Redbud Post, Mudroomblog.com, The Art of Taleh, and The Boston Sunday Globe.  Sheila's book; Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience released by InterVarsity Press (IVP) in 2020 was awarded the 2021 best book in Christian Living/ Discipleship by Christianity Today. When Sheila is not writing or counseling she creates art, and crafts or searches for treasures in local antique and thrift shops.

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Vanessa & Bishop Todd could have talked to hours to this month's guest (and good friend) Greg Thompson. He is a scholar, writer, and artist of diverse creative background whose work focuses on race, religion, hospitality, and democracy in the United States. He serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia; Research Fellow in African American Heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU); and as Creative Director of Star & Lantern, a new Cocktail Bar in Kennett Square, PA whose story centers in the African American freedom struggle and the Underground Railroad (Opening June 2021). He is the Co-Creator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop based musical about the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike, Co-Author (with Reverend Duke Kwon) of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair and is currently writing a work that explores the role of love in the work of Martin Luther King.  He holds an M.A. and PhD from the University of Virginia.

Twitter: @_wgthompason
Vuproject.org

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