{"id":3593,"date":"2012-04-13T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:45:55","slug":"session-i-ccatholicity-in-the-empire-chris-haw-peter-dula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/04\/13\/session-i-ccatholicity-in-the-empire-chris-haw-peter-dula\/","title":{"rendered":"Session I: \u201c(C\/c)atholicity in the Empire\u201d \u2013 Chris Haw, Peter Dula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#Occupy Empire: Anabaptism in God\u2019s Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrishaw.blogspot.com\/\">Chris Haw<\/a> offers a lecture, followed by a response by Peter Dula.\u00a0 Chris\u00a0 is a carpenter, painter, theologian, and a potter.\u00a0 With his wife, Cassie, and baby, Simon, Chris lives with fellow community members at Camden House, a small intentional community in Camden, New Jersey.\u00a0 Chris grew up Catholic, then spent many years growing and serving at Willow Creek Community Church, moved to Philadelphia to study sociology and theology at Eastern University before going on to graduate work in theology at Villanova University.\u00a0 He now exists in a creative tension between Catholics, Anabaptists, and global capitalism.\u00a0 Chris teaches in local congregations, conferences, and also periodically teaches religious studies at Cabrini College.\u00a0 He c-authored the book <em>Jesus for President<\/em> with Shane Claiborne, is working on a book about his conversion to Catholicism, <em>From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart <\/em>(Ave Maria Press, Fall 2012) and has been interviewed in Christianity Today, Sojourners, CNN, and Al-Jazeera, and was featured in the DVD series, <em>Another World Is Possible<\/em>, and the documentary <em>The Ordinary Radicals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/pd767\">Peter Dula<\/a> is assistant professor of religion and culture and chair of Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Bible and Religion department.\u00a0 He received a Ph.D from Duke University in theology and ethics in 2004 after completing a dissertation on the intersection of theology and philosophy in the work of Stanley Cavell.\u00a0 Before coming to EMU in 2006 he was the Mennonite Central Committee Iraq Program Coordinator.\u00a0 He has taught at Lancaster Mennonite High School and at the Meserete Kristos College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where\u00a0 he was a Fulbright scholar in 2001-\u201902.<\/p>\n<p>Conference planners <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/04\/13\/2012\/04\/13\/empire-and-the-power-of-withdrawal-isaac-villegas\/www.restorativetheology.blogspot.com\/\">Brian Gumm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistmissionalproject.org\/AMP\/AMP_Home.html\">Aaron Kauffman<\/a> describe the conference in this way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnabaptism at its best has been a series of attempts both to live into God\u2019s in-breaking occupation and to faithfully occupy the empires of this fallen age, signaling the shalom to come. Anabaptists have gone about this work by imaginatively patterning their worship and witness after the New Testament communities of Jesus. Come explore ways in which the Anabaptist tradition can help inspire faithful occupation in today\u2019s world. Interdisciplinary academic presentations will be infused with worship and testimonies to open our minds and spirits to where God is calling us into mission in the midst of empire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Occupy Empire: Anabaptism in God\u2019s Mission Chris Haw offers a lecture, followed by a response by Peter Dula.\u00a0 Chris\u00a0 is a carpenter, painter, theologian, and a potter.\u00a0 With his wife, Cassie, and baby, Simon, Chris lives with fellow community members at Camden House, a small intentional community in Camden, New Jersey.\u00a0 Chris grew up Catholic,....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3984,10],"tags":[4253,4254],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupy-empire-mini-conference","category-facultystaff-speakers","tag-chris-haw","tag-peter-dula","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}