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Speakers Bureau
Richard ("Rick") Axtell
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| Name: |
Richard ("Rick") Axtell |
| Address: |
511 Maple Avenue
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| City: |
Danville |
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KY |
| Zip code: |
40422 |
| Telephone: |
859-238-5342 |
| Fax: |
859-239-9083 |
| Email: |
axtellr@centre.edu |
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Topics willing to speak on:
Violence and nonviolence in major world religions;
Gandhian Satyagraha and gospel peacemaking;
Globalization and economic injustice as structural violence;
Free Trade vs. Fair Trade;
Homelessness and poverty in the U.S.;
Structural violence of U.S. Neo-colonialism in South America;
Toward a Nonviolent Sexual Ethic of Justice, Love, Respect, Compassion and Fidelity;
Bible studies on hunger, justice,and peacemaking.
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Bio:
Rick Axtell is the College Chaplain and Associate Professor of Religion at Centre College, Danville, KY. A convinced Christian pacifist and peace activist, Rick has concentrated most of his actions and teaching on structural violence, especially economic structual violence. Trained as a Christian ethicist with additional study in economics and world religions, Rick Axtell has done extensive research on Gandhi's "positive program" of small village economic independence.
Rick Axtell's concern for the violence of structural poverty and economic justice is longstanding: He saw the interweaving of economic and racial oppression as a college student in Mississippi and saw even greater poverty and mass starvation as a student missionary to Bangladesh. His previous employment includes serving as Director of Louisville United Against Hunger (LUAH) and as a case manager with homeless men through the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He has travelled and studied hunger and sustainable development issues in Bangladesh, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, the Chiapas region of Mexico, and Nicaragua. He has studied poverty and homelessness issues in several U.S. cities.
A longtime member of such peace groups as the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the Fellowship of Reconciliaton, and Witness for Peace, Rick has repeatedly led Witness for Peace delegations throughout Central America. Curently, he is focused on the spiral of violence in Colombia and the U.S. role in perpetuating it--the war almost no one in the U.S. talks about, although our troop levels there are second only to our troop levels in Iraq and Colombian refugees are greater than anywhere else but Sudan!
Rick is a superb teacher in both classrooms and churches, consistently given high student evaluations wherever he teaches. He was voted "Teacher of the Year" by Bellarmine College in 1992 and Metro Louisville Hunger Activist of the Year in 1993.
Rick's articles on violence and religion have appeared in The Merton Annual and the Encyclopedia of Religion and War.
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