Global Immersion

We form Everyday Peacemakers and Reconciling Leaders to mend divides.

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Our new @GlobalImmerse podcast launched today. Cohosting with @osheta is a blast & our guests are awesome; @oestreichdiana1 @DDGilliard @dpgushee @ntoyamaszeto @CarlosHappyNPO @ShaneClaiborne @angela_denker and my dad!

Link to trailer & 1st episode; https://t.co/oJ6yfh8Ok6

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Our friends at @votecommongood are currently hosting a two-month journey (on bikes!) across the entire southern border of the United States as a way to bring attention to the human stories of those living in the borderlands. Check out their journey! https://t.co/WriDtzM8Oh

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{New Webinar Series} Human lives have not been the only casualties connected to the pandemic. Differing perspectives on faith, politics, race, pandemics, and vaccinations have caused many to terminate relationships with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

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Join us for Part 1 next Thursday, April 29th at 12pPST as we hear from award-winning Australian Peacemaker, Jarrod McKenna. In this session, we'll gain practical tools for increasing proximity with and growing empathy for those who are marginalized by power.

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To our black relatives and Minneapolis-based neighbors:
We see you.
We're with you.
We're for you!

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#DaunteWright

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#DaunteWright

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Instead of defending their differences, notice how they listen, empathize, and consider. They prioritize relationship over rightness, and it is transforming both of them, the congregations they lead, and the communities they serve.

https://t.co/duNgZcEtsx

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Are you willing to soften your certainty for the sake of peace?

This week on the Everyday Peacemaking Podcast we hear from Sarah and Lamont, two unlikely friends who are doing exactly that.

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As a result, restoration is extending through their churches into their cities. As Lamont puts it, “When we create space for each other to truly, fully be ourselves, we all win.”

#everydaypeacemaking

https://t.co/duNgZcEtsx

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Ever felt like church leaders don’t prioritize peacemaking?

Our podcast guests this week might give you hope. Sarah and Lamont are pastors and leaders whose commitment to peacemaking begins within and involves the hard work of navigating conflict in their friendship.

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Our guests this week on the Everyday Peacemaker podcast are living, loving examples of a friendship that’s transforming a small, divided community in Idaho.

https://t.co/xtKjA3DfO7

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Friends, unlikely friendships are powerful!

Where division and separation are the status quo, uncommon friendships have the power to bring whole communities together.

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"I think that's why forgiveness journeys are so personal," she said. "It's a process. It's not like a light you turn on and off. I really believe there's layers to forgiveness. And, for me, I'm glad I peeled off that last layer."

Read full article:
https://t.co/UYbfqTQ4W3

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This week on the Everyday Peacemaker podcast we hear from Karlin and Monica, two unlikely friends whose faith and love for waging peace in a rural Idaho community is transforming everything around them.

https://t.co/xtKjA3lEpx

#everydaypeacemaking

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What do a white, Presbyterian pastor from New Jersey and a Latina migrant from Mexico City have in common? A lot, it turns out.

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holding space and waging peace in the one-on-one. Mary shares stories of her own successes and failures as a peacemaker, the importance of being still with our questions, and the transformative practice of what she calls ‘spiritual listening.’

https://t.co/xtKjA3DfO7

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“There is purpose and work to be done on all levels of peacemaking, but the foundational work is one-on-one conversation.”

This week we’re in conversation with Mary Nichols, a spiritual listener and director whose life’s passion is ...