Annual Peace Lecture
Seattle Mennonite Church hosted an annual peace lectureship to educate and engage some aspect of our Just Peace framework.
Inspired by the World Council of Churches document, “An Ecumenical Call to Just Peace,” this framework identifies 4 aspects of Just Peace work:
- Just Peace in the Community
- Just Peace in the Marketplace
- Just Peace with the Earth
- Just Peace among the Peoples
Our speakers brought an Anabaptist Mennonite perspective to help inform and educate.
Past Peace Lectures
2018
Waziyatawin, Wahpetunwan Dakota from the Pezihutaszizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota, and John Stoesz, activist for Indigenous justice and former Executive Director of Mennonite Central Committee – Central States, and chair of the Native Land Return Committee. A “Racial Justice & Reparations” small group from SMC collected resources to share with the congregation in preparation for this lecture.
2017
Ched Meyers and Elaine Enns, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries.
2016
Palwasha Kakar, Senior Program Officer for Religion and Inclusive Societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
2015
Daryl Byler, Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, and longtime worker with Mennonite Central Committee – Israel/Palestine Conversations
2014
Nekeisha Alexis-Baker, founder of JesusRadicals.com, activist, organizer, and thinker – “None Shall Hurt or Destroy: Why other animals matter for Christian Peacemaking”
2012
Dr. Fernando Enns, professor of theology, ethics, peace, and ecumenism – Just Peace and the World Council of Churches
2011
Kathy Kern, Christian Peacemaker Teams
2010
John Paul Lederach, professor of international peacebuilding at Notre Dame, founder of the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, author of more than 20 books, including The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace.