{"id":51344,"date":"2022-02-11T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=51344"},"modified":"2022-03-19T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:55:20","slug":"author-marshall-king-92-to-discuss-new-book-disarmed-the-radical-life-and-legacy-of-mj-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/author-marshall-king-92-to-discuss-new-book-disarmed-the-radical-life-and-legacy-of-mj-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Marshall King \u201892 to discuss new book \u2018Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of MJ Sharp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marshall King \u201892<\/strong> will be at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, Feb. 16, to speak about his new book \u201cDisarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of MJ Sharp\u201d (Herald Press, 2022). The convocation begins at 10:10 a.m. in Lehman Auditorium and will be livestreamed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\/live\">EMU\u2019s Facebook Live page<\/a> [you do not need to be a member of Facebook to watch.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same evening, King will also be at Brothers Craft Brewing at 6:30 p.m. for a reading and interview with Professor <strong>Mark Metzler Sawin<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1371333893327514\/?ti=ls\">Watch at EMU\u2019s Facebook Live page.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Feb. 17, Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community hosts a 2 p.m. gathering. King will be interviewed by EMU President Emeritus <strong>Loren Swartzendruber<\/strong>. This event is <strong>not<\/strong> livestreamed. Watch for the recording to be posted after the event on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.ocm\/vmrcbroadcast\">VMRC\u2019s Vimeo site under the title \u201cMeet the Author, Marshall V. King.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book tells the story of <strong>Michael \u201cMJ\u201d Sharp \u201805<\/strong>, whose commitment to peace and peacebuilding led him to work with Mennonite Central Committee and the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharp\u2019s murder on 2017 while working with the United Nations as an armed group expert sent shockwaves around the world. He was ambushed with UN colleague Zaida Catal\u00e1n of Sweden, who was also killed. The investigation into his death is ongoing; <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptistworld.org\/dozens-sentenced-for-murders-of-u-n-investigators\/\">dozens were sentenced to death in late January<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King\u2019s book \u201cexplores what compelled Sharp to travel the world working for peace and the ongoing impact of his life and death in the ongoing story of Christian peacemaking in a war-torn world,\u201d according to publicity materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King, a longtime journalist and former managing editor of The Elkhart Truth, lives in Goshen, Indiana, where he is head storyteller for the Community Foundation of Elkhart County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/giving\/endow\/mj-sharp\">MJ Sharp Peace and Justice Endowed Scholarship<\/a> honors MJ\u2019s memory, providing need-based aid to graduate students at EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding with priority given to students from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The scholarship\u2019s total stands at nearly $265,000 \u2013 a sum which has enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/mj-sharp-scholarship-recipients-calling-is-to-raise-a-generation-of-young-peacebuilders\/\"><strong>David Nyiringabo<\/strong><\/a> <strong>MA &#8217;20<\/strong> and <strong>Yolanda Emedi<\/strong> to study at CJP. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/MJSharp\">Give here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Read and learn more&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/podcast\/\">Peacebuilder podcast\u2019s next episode<\/a> Wednesday, Feb. 16, featuring King, and linking episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mennomedia.org\/ing-podcast\/\">Mennomedia\u2019s podcast \u201c-ing\u201d <\/a>in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jan. 21 issue of Anabaptist World includes <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptistworld.org\/into-the-heart-of-africa\/\">an excerpt from the book<\/a>, as well as a feature article about MJ titled <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptistworld.org\/martyr-hero\/\">\u201cMartyr? Hero?\u201d<\/a> capturing some of the tensions around his work and death, and an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptistworld.org\/for-parents-book-fills-gaps-in-an-unfinished-life\/\">his parents John and Michele Sharp<\/a> and their search for justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 Dream Hike, a trek to the top of Kilimanjaro, helped to raise money for the scholarship. A <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/dream-hike-photo-book-proceeds-to-bolster-endowed-scholarship\/\">book capturing images of the hike<\/a> came out in June 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/dream-hike\/\">Visit the hike website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear <strong>John Sharp<\/strong>, Michael\u2019s father, speak about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=502418350614603\">his son\u2019s legacy at EMU\u2019s TenTalks<\/a> during the 2019 Homecoming and Family Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall King \u201892 will be at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, Feb. 16, to speak about his new book \u201cDisarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of MJ Sharp\u201d (Herald Press, 2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/author-marshall-king-92-to-discuss-new-book-disarmed-the-radical-life-and-legacy-of-mj-sharp\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Author Marshall King \u201892 to discuss new book \u2018Disarmed: The Radical Life and Legacy of MJ Sharp\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,5583,12503,17562,8845,12537,12499,1,5730],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-51344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-community","category-cjp","category-digest","category-emu-at-lancaster","category-star","category-spi","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-programs","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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