This Week In Common

Allan Winkler is the author of the important new book, "To Everything There is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song." Allan is a folk musician and Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Join us to learn about Pete Seeger's peace witness through story and song.

Gerald Mast is Professor of Communication at Bluffton University. He writes and speaks widely in the area of peace studies. His newest book, co-authored with J. Denny Weaver, is "Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church."

We will spend a few minutes thinking together about next spring's speaker line-up.

Aaron Nell will explore the needs of adolescents and what strategies help them creatively engage moral reasoning through play. Aaron has been working with youth, particularly those suspended or expelled, for nearly a decade, and has immense wisdom and hope to share on this subject.

Aaron Nell will explore the needs of adolescents and what strategies help them creatively engage moral reasoning through play. Aaron has been working with youth (particularly those suspended or expelled) for nearly a decade, and has immense wisdom and hope to share on this subject.

Last summer during a production of Annie, a man entered a Unitarian Universalist church and opened fire. Two people were killed, and several others injured. Reverend Chris Buice, ESR alum, will share about the church's healing process.

All are welcome at Peace Forum on Thursdays from noon-1:10pm in the ESR Dining Room. Delicious, nutritious lunch is always provided.

Join us for Peace Forum to hear Joy Ellison, Earlham College class of 2005 and Peace and Global Studies major. Joy has been working with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine and her talk is entitled: "One Hill at a Time: Supporting Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance at Al-Tuwani."
Come for our usual feast for body and mind.

Jana Schroeder, Director of the Bonner Scholars program at Earlham College will present at Peace Forum this week. Jana served as an advocate for prisoners and their families with the American Friends Service Committee. Join us for food and friendship. All welcome.

Many prisoners are anti-establishment and see the world as black and white. While prison employees are suspect, volunteers are able to reach many of these prisoners. This week's Peace Forum will focus on one-on-one visits with Federal and Military Prisoners, led by ESR student Jerry Knutson. Lunch, as always, is free and delicious. ESR dining room, noon-1:10pm.

Join us for Peace Forum this week to here Bill Morse, Director of Landmine Relief Fund. Bill works directly with Cambodians who started on their own, with no equipment, to remove landmines in their country. This is part of a larger international effort to find and remove landmines from all over the world and to prevent their further usage.

Please join us for lunch and this week's Peace Forum on Thursday, Sept. 10, 12-1:10 pm, seminary dining hall.
We will hear from Scott Holland, peace studies professor at Bethany, about his work with the historic peace churches in other parts of the world.
All welcome to this free event.

Ruthann Johansen, President of Bethany Theological Seminary, will speak at this week's Peace Forum. Her talk is "Prophets, Poetics, Partnerships, and Peace (Living God's Shalom and Christin Peace in Cultures of Fear)".
All invited, lunch provided. From 12-1:10 pm, Thursday, September 3 in the seminary dining room, corner of College Avenue and National Road West.

Please join us for the opening Peace Forum of the year on Thursday, August 27 from 12-1:10 pm in the seminary dining room (corner of College Avenue and National Road).
We will not have a speaker for this introductory Forum, but do come for our always free lunch. We will go over the speakers for this semester and introduce ourselves to one another.
Bring your friends.

Join us for our final Peace Forum of the semester! We will share community gardening ideas and dreams, and discuss possible partnerships for this summer, and beyond. Come with your own ideas and questions, and enjoy a free, delicious lunch. Also bring suggestions for next year's Peace Forum topics. Contact grossan@earlham.edu with ideas if you can't make it. Thursday, noon in the ESR dining room.

Join us for a discussion of "Sustainable Farming" with two local farmers who are advocates for sustainability in farming practices. Come hear our guests Dori Baxter and Tom Cail.
As always, good company and good food.

Join us for Peace Forum as we here from folks involved in the urban gardening movement. Melissa Hill, Earlham college student, will join others for this discussion. As always, good company and good food.