{"id":5948,"date":"2021-09-21T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:01:59","slug":"evening-lecture-melissa-florer-bixler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2021\/09\/21\/evening-lecture-melissa-florer-bixler\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Lecture: Melissa Florer-Bixler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I<strong><em>s Polarization the Problem?: New Imagination for Times of Conflict<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0with pastor and author\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissaflorerbixler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Florer-Bixler<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler teaches from her newest book,&nbsp;<em>How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace<\/em>, in which she looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies\u2014who they are, what they do, and how Jesus and his followers responded to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissaflorerbixler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Florer-Bixler<\/a>\u00a0is a writer and pastor with degrees from Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her ministry at Raleigh Mennonite Church has been featured in\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sojourners<\/em>. She writes for\u00a0<em>Geez Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Christian Century<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Mennonite World Review<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Mennonite<\/em>, among others. She lives with her husband and three children in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/21095609\/2021-09-21-melissa-florer-bixler-podcast.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here for the PDF of slides: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Gk-tfZoSp6BPYtYJ3X-DN-Id7DTAvZ8l\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Gk-tfZoSp6BPYtYJ3X-DN-Id7DTAvZ8l\/view?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Gk-tfZoSp6BPYtYJ3X-DN-Id7DTAvZ8l\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/21095609\/2021-09-21-melissa-florer-bixler-podcast.mp3\"><\/audio><\/div><p>Is Polarization the Problem?: New Imagination for Times of Conflict\u00a0with pastor and author\u00a0Melissa Florer-Bixler. Pastor and author Melissa Florer-Bixler teaches from her newest book,&nbsp;How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, in which she looks closely at what the Bible says about enemies\u2014who they are, what they do, and how Jesus....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4746],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","tag-melissa-florer-bixler","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}