Teaching Peace

Addie and Jason are in conversation with Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, executive director of Fellowship of Reconciliation. 

Addie and Jason talk with Cesar Garcia, general secretary of the Mennonite World Conference, a global communion of Anabaptist related churches that serves some 1.5 million members around the world, distributed in more than 10,000 Mennonite, BIC, and other Anabaptist congregations. Rev. García is from Bogotá, Colombia, and his appointment in 2011 marked the first time a leader from the global South has served in this leadership role.   

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Addie and Jason are in conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights advocate.

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Jason and guest cohost Kayla Berkey talk with Dr. Malinda Elizabeth Berry, ethicist and theologian, about Shalom Political Theology as the connective tissue and intersectional space that holds together liberation theologies and practical peacemaking for long-term social transformation.

Addie Banks and guest cohost Gregory Vanderbilt talk with Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht about uprooting generation family violence through practicing peacemaking. Dr. Soto Albrecht is author of "Family Violence: Reclaiming a Theology of Nonviolence" (Orbis Books) and the forthcoming "Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology through the Wisdom of Women."

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Addie and Jason talk with Jayne Docherty, the executive director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.   

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In this episode of Teaching Peace, Addie Banks and Jason Storbakken talk with Stanley Hauerwas about the ethics and theology of peacebuilding.  Hauerwas is the  Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. He is considered to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001.

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In this first episode of Teaching Peace, Addie Banks and Jason Storbakken talk with, Glen Guyton, the executive director of Mennonite Church USA, the largest denomination of Peace Christians in the United States. They explore themes related to peacemaking in institutions and congregations.

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