Ways of Peace I: Nonviolence in the Christian Tradition |
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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.
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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. She 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.
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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
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