Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness is a grassroots association dedicated to promoting biblical values of justice, care of creation, peace and nonviolent solutions to conflict.
Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness invites you to attend “Liberating the Politics of Jesus: Renewing Peace Theology Through the Wisdom of Women” on Sunday, October 22 at 3:00pm at James Street Mennonite Church, 315 West James Street, Lancaster.
What does a politics of peace look like?
When politics is reduced to statecraft and peace to the absence of war, we miss the radical implications of the gospel message. Through the wisdom of Anabaptist women, we learn that peacemaking must be practiced at home and in church as well as the home front and the front lines. Liberating the radical political ethic of Jesus Christ from patriarchal distortions, these theologians demonstrate that gender justice and peace theology are inseparable.
Join local authors Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, Linda Gehman Peachey, and Darryl W. Stephens for a panel discussion, followed by a question-and-answer time and book signing. The program is sponsored by Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness and is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be received.
Dr. Linda Gehman Peachey is former Director of Women’s Advocacy for the Mennonite Central Committee US and a freelance writer and teacher in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht is a Lancaster scholar, advocate, and pastor. She is former Moderator of Mennonite Church USA, 2013–2015, and served as Global Theological Education advisor at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Dr. Darryl W. Stephens is a professor, writer, and advocate. He is ordained in The United Methodist Church with dual standing in the United Church of Christ and teaches at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
For more information, call Pat Brady at 717-799-6468.