Ways of Peace
Ways of Peace I: Nonviolence
in the Christian Tradition
Walter and June Wink When: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8:30am - 9:30pm.
Where: United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, MN  (click for map)

Featured Speakers include: Rita Nakashima Brock, William T. Cavanaugh, Kathy Kelly, Gerald Schlabach, Christine M. Smith, and June and Walter Wink (pictured above).

Cost: $10/ticket for all or any part of the day; meals not included but available on-site and nearby.

Note: Only cash or checks will be accepted for day-of-event payments. There are several nearby ATM machines.

For Further Information: http://www.fnvw.org, or email [email protected] or call 651-917-0383.

  Program and Schedule
 
8:30am            Doors open
9:15am            Welcome address
9:30am            A Morning with Walter and June Wink
                       
Walter Wink
The Myth of Redemptive Violence
An exploration of Jesus' antidote to the readily embraced notion that violence saves.
 
June Keener Wink
The Power of Movement
Keener Wink is a pioneer in the use of body movement in spiritual development. Dancing FlamesShe offers a unique approach to the integration of body, mind and spirit in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere.
 




12:00pm            Lunch
1:00pm              Plenary sessions 1 & 2
 
Gerald Schlabach
Just Policing: Can we Move Beyond the Pacifist / Just War Impasse?
 
Seeking to move the ecumenical dialogue forward between historic peace churches and churches that allow for the possibility of just wars by urging both traditions to pay greater attention to the ethics of policing, Schlabach will press both just war and pacifist Christians to be more faithful to the best insights and practices of their traditions by imagining a dialogue between two representatives of these traditions.

Christine M. Smith
De-Centering Privilege as an Act of Non-Violence
An examination of the essential social, cultural, and spiritual discipline of privileged people placing their lives in places, and with people, in which they have less power, control, and privilege.
 
2:35pm            Breakout sessions
3:30pm            Plenary sessions 3 & 4
 
Rita Nakashima Brock
What Saves the World?
Nakashima Brock argues that Western Christianity, once a life-affirming, earth-loving, this-worldly faith, has become increasingly an ideological prop for conquest, colonization, and slavery. She traces this tragic turn in the West and offers a new hopeful paradigm for the future of Christianity.
 
William T. Cavanaugh
The Myth of Religious Violence
A challenge to the conventional wisdom that religion is more inclined toward violence than ideologies and institutions that are identified as "secular."
 
5:05pm            Breakout sessions
6:00pm            Dinner
7:30pm           An Evening with Kathy Kelly

Kathy Kelly
Crossing Barriers, Building Peace
Drawing from New Testament teachings and personal experience, Kelly states that Jesus' life and message call all of us to "the further invention of
nonviolence" in the face of today's wars.
 Sponsors (as of October 15)

Friends for a Non-Violent World, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Christ Church UMC's Prayers for Peace Group, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, Hennepin Avenue UMC, Hennepin Avenue UMC's Peace through Justice Group, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Jain Center of Minnesota, Macalester Plymouth United Church Peacemakers, Mayflower Community Congregational Church, Mayim Rabim Reconstructionist Congregation, Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, Minnesota Fellowship of Reconciliation, Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Darfur, Minnesota Peace Project, National Benedictines for Peace, Pax Christi, Pleroma Coaching, Robbinsdale United Church of Christ, Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality, St. Brigid of Kildare Monastery, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, St. Luke Presbyterian Church, Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality