EMU invites all organizers, pastors, academics, and leaders of church institutions to come together for a symposium on “The Promise and Possibility of Anabaptist Organizing” from Sunday, Oct. 12, to Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.
Join us for three days of learning, storytelling, and conversation with people who hold practical wisdom and whose theology leads them into everyday justice work. Participants will explore organizing as an Anabaptist-Mennonite expression of peacebuilding, wrestle with the theological questions it raises, and begin building ongoing connections among leaders in both movement and broad-based organizing.
Daniel Hunter, co-founder of Choose Democracy, will present the keynote address at 7 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 12, in Martin Chapel. He has trained pro-democracy movements in Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, and India, and has more than three decades of activist training experience, according to a bio on his website.
Most events will be held in the Seminary Building on the EMU campus. For more information, including an event schedule and list of speakers, as well as registration, visit the symposium’s website.
Registration is also available for virtual participation in the symposium’s keynote and plenary sessions.
The symposium planning committee consists of Andre Gingerich Stoner, Jessica Sarriot, Jonathan Smucker, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Jacob Alan Cook, Peter Dula, and Tim Seidel.
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