Peacemakers have to transcend the partisan shouting matches that lead to shaming each other rather than understanding each other. Peacemakers also have to interrogate any status quo that values some people over and above others. Patriarchy is one such status quo. It has to be confronted theologically and practically if we are going to participate with God in restoring our broken world. While we may agree that women and men are inherently equal as image bearers of God, patriarchy has been woven into the fabric of our faith, politics & communities. Like any disease, if it goes unchecked, it will kill us. … and let’s be clear, it is killing us. But, we have an opportunity to be healed, and with healing comes new life.
This webinar will be an honest conversation with three white men who have benefited from patriarchy and are on the journey toward healing. Hosted by author, leadership coach and Global Immersion team member, Christiana Rice, we will ask hard questions about how patriarchy has informed both our understanding and experience of our faith, our values, and our institutional structures. Finally, we will get really tangible about ways we (as men) can begin to break free from it’s chains and move toward our collective healing. What if our best days are yet to come?
Tuesday, October 10th – 5:00pm PT/8pmET
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Facilitator
Christiana Rice – Author and Leadership Trainer
Christiana serves as a trainer and coach with Thresholds, supporting leaders, activists, entrepreneurs and influencers for their sustained spiritual growth and wellness. She is also an Immersion Trip Curator for The Global Immersion Project. Christiana lives in Urban San Diego with her husband Derek, their two daughters and their neighborhood church community. She is the co-author of, To Alter the World; Partnering with God to Rebirth our Communities, with global missiologist, Michael Frost.
Panelists
JR Daniel Kirk – New Testament Scholar and Pastoral Director of the Newbigin House of Studies
After serving as a New Testament professor for the better part of a decade, Daniel Kirk is now Pastoral Director at the Newbigin House of Studies in San Francisco, CA. His most recent book, A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels was awarded the 2017 Biblical Archaeology Society prize for Best Book Related to the New Testament.
Jer Swigart – Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project
Jer is a peacemaking training organization, Global Immersion is cultivating an everyday peacemaking movement that’s restoring what’s broken in our world. As a modern-day peacemaker, Jer has found himself contending for peace in beautifully bizarre corners of our global village. Whether in the tribes of northern Pakistan, the slums of India, the red-light districts of Southeast Asia, the conflict between Israel and Palestine, or the racial divides within his own neighborhood, Jer loves people in a way that disarms violence and eliminates divides. His engagement within national and international conflicts as well as his experience as a faith leader and educator has formed him into a guide for individuals, churches, and organizations that are yearning to leverage their influence as instruments of peace in the places they live, work, and play. When he’s not navigating alpine life with his family in Bend, OR, Jer travels the country and world as a practitioner, coach, and speaker. He’s written for numerous publications, has contributed to several books, is a Pepperdine Cross Sector Leader Fellow, and is the co-author of the recently released and award winning book, Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World (IVP, 2017).
Jon Huckins – Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project
is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, and has written three books of his own; his latest being Mending the Divides: Creative love in a Conflicted World. Jon has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lou) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill.
Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or his personal blog jonhuckins.net