“Spiritual Life Week Chapel – Justice and Jesus? How do I make sense of this?”
How do Johonna Turner, Nancy Heisey, Ben Bailey, and several student leaders, make sense of justice and Jesus? Hear their stories. Johanna Turner is Assistant Professor with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Nancy Heisey is Professor of Bible and Religion. Ben Bailey is Office Coordinator for the Department of Applied Social Sciences.
“Spiritual Life Week Chapel – Justice and Jesus? Why should I care?” – Sabrina Dorman
Sabrina Dorman, Director & Co-Founder of New Creation brings Spiritual Like Week chapel focusing on Jesus and Justice. Sabrina hails from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Her passion for fighting human trafficking quickly developed after volunteering with The Zion Project, and she made it her mission to learn about this issue on a local and global....
“When There Is No Peace” – David Evans, SVBF Leipzig Service
The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival comes to a rest each year with the “Leipzig Service.” This year’s homily was offered by David Evans, Asst. Professor of History and Mission at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. His message was titled, “When There Is No Peace,” and his remarks here were made more poignant by the shooting deaths of....
“Art, Faith, and Justice: What does Resistance have to do with Carnivals?”
So what is this carnival thing? Sarah Thompson, Caleb Lange and Jessica Campbell, participants with Carnival de Resistance, offer some reflections and connections. More info
The Personal and Political Dimensions of Conversion: Restorative Justice
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers begin this lecture with a reading of Paul’s Damascus Road experience as a call to restorative justice. Then they look at mediation and nonviolent direct action as flip sides of the peacemaking coin. They conclude with a story of the conversion of a U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons specialist to....