EVERY CHURCH A PEACE CHURCH'S FIRST CONFERENCE IN TEXAS! When: 04-05 February 2005 Where: The Cathedral of Hope, Dallas, Texas Sponsors: Peace Mennonite Church, Dallas; Cathedral of Hope; Every Church a Peace Church Times: TBA Cost: $0 (Transportation and Lodging are your responsibility, but we are trying to work out a limited number of guest possibilities in church members' homes at little or no cost. Watch the ECAPC website and e-newsletter for further developments.) FEATURES: Dr. Glen H. Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. Keynote Speaker. Dr. Stassen is a longtime peace activist, giving up a first career as a nuclear physicist in order to help turn the churches toward peace. He is one of the founders and a former board member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. He was one of the architects of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign of the 1980s and a behind-the-scenes negotiator for the campaign that rid Europe of short and medium range nuclear missiles during the height of the Cold War. He is the author of several books on Christian ethics and peacemaking, including Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Westminster/John Knox, 1994) and Just Peacemaking: 10 Practices to Abolish War (Pilgrim Press, 1998). Dr. Stassen, a member of ECAPC's Speakers' Bureau, has also written on nonviolent, just peacemaking approaches to terrorism and is currently completing a book that compares the ethics of pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking, using historical examples. Damu Smith, Founder and Co-Director of BLACK VOICES FOR PEACE with headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. Smith is a longtime activist on human rights, peace, and environmental issues. He is a committed Christian and supporter of ECAPC who has been interviewed for two different episodes of ECAPC-TV in Atlanta. Music from area choirs (and possibly others)! A workshop for ECAPC organizers on Friday led by John Stoner! Confirmed workshops include: Toward a Practical Spirituality of Nonviolence, led by Michael Westmoreland-White; Violence and Peacemaking in Colombia, led by Dr. Victor Hinajosa, Prof. of Political Science at Baylor University (Waco, TX) and ECAPC Speaker. Other workshops to be announced soon! Resource Tables by National and Local Peace and Justice Organizations!
As further details become available, they will be posted here: http://www.ecapc.org/scheddetail.asp?control=46 and in the ECAPC e-newsletter. Especially if you live in the Southwest (and especially in Texas!), we hope you'll make plans now to join us! If you know of churches or individuals that would like to participate, give the contact information to Michael Westmoreland-White (mlw-w@insightbb.com) or (preferably) to our on-site coordinators, Rev. Dick Davis, pastor of Peace Mennonite Church and ECAPC Speaker (dick@peacemennonite.org ) and/or Rev. Dan Peeler, Minister to Children at Cathedral of Hope and a leader of C o H's "Order of St. Francis and St. Clare" (
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