The Peace Lab

Melissa Florer-Bixler and Joy Shaver of Raleigh Mennonite Church stop by the PeaceLab to discuss Bystander Intervention.

You can find the Bystander Intervention Sunday School curriculum at www.pjsn.org/bystander.

Melody Pannell, Professor of Social Work at Eastern Mennonite University, discusses her work on diversity and inclusion in a variety of settings, including the founding of her nonprofit organization, Destiny's Daughters LLC, which works to celebrate and empower African-American girls.

Horace McMillon, Pastor of Open Door Mennonite Church in Jackson, Mississippi, talks about gun violence in the United States and what it would take to change things.

Joel Miller and Austin Junhke come to the PeaceLab to discuss how Columbus Mennonite Church became a place of sanctuary and hope for a community member targeted by ICE(Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Titus Peachey discusses the effects of war in Laos and how peacebuilding can be a long-term project.

Luke Miller, one of the leaders of the Pink Menno movement and a member of the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests, talks with Hannah Heinzekehr about the Future Church Summit and the Mennonite Church USA Convention in Orlando this summer.

Hannah and Jason talk with Lars Åkerson and Chris Agoranos of The Life Lines Collective, a podcast featuring poetry and spoken word pieces written, read and created by writers living on death row.

Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, talks with Jason and Hannah from Texas. King was part of an assessment team in Texas last week beginning to assess damage from Tropical Storm Harvey and working to plan for recovery efforts.

Sarah Thompson, executive director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, talks with Hannah Heinzekehr about her role training counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, the work of Christian Peacemaker Teams and confrontational nonviolence.