{"id":59851,"date":"2025-10-07T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=59851"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:53:51","slug":"emu-to-host-symposium-on-community-organizing-from-oct-12-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/emu-to-host-symposium-on-community-organizing-from-oct-12-14\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU to host symposium on community organizing from Oct. 12-14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>EMU invites all organizers, pastors, academics, and leaders of church institutions to come together for a symposium on \u201cThe Promise and Possibility of Anabaptist Organizing\u201d from Sunday, Oct. 12, to Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app.registrationguru.net\/#!\/registration?eventId=e93dedf3-e7b5-48ed-836d-c134e2fdcbef\">Register here.<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/seminary\/shalom\/events\/2025-organizing-symposium\">the symposium&#8217;s website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration is also available for virtual participation in the symposium\u2019s keynote and plenary sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The symposium planning committee consists of Andre Gingerich Stoner, Jessica Sarriot, Jonathan Smucker, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Jacob Alan Cook, Peter Dula, and Tim Seidel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59852\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/10\/07003824\/557828126_1315000813970988_7470772506192901669_n.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMU invites all organizers, pastors, academics, and leaders of church institutions to come together for a symposium on \u201cThe Promise and Possibility of Anabaptist Organizing\u201d from Sunday, Oct. 12, to <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/emu-to-host-symposium-on-community-organizing-from-oct-12-14\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU to host symposium on community organizing from Oct. 12-14<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":59853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,5583,5861,17562,17564,264,265],"tags":[18614,18615,17459,18613,18612],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-59851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-campus-community","category-conferences-and-events","category-digest","category-events","category-graduate-programs","category-seminary","tag-community-organizing","tag-daniel-hunter","tag-seminary","tag-symposium","tag-the-promise-and-possibility-of-anabaptist-organizing","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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