{"id":3597,"date":"2012-04-14T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:45:11","slug":"session-iii-alternatives-to-empire-paulette-moore-bethany-tobin-jr-rozko-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/04\/14\/session-iii-alternatives-to-empire-paulette-moore-bethany-tobin-jr-rozko-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Session III: \u201cAlternatives to Empire\u201d \u2013 Paulette Moore, Bethany Tobin, JR Rozko"},"content":{"rendered":"

#Occupy Empire: Anabaptism in God\u2019s Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session II is a series of three Lectures:<\/p>\n

Paulette Moore<\/a> and friends from the local \u201cOccupy\u201d movement present on \u201cOccupy Harrisonburg and the Local Church.\u201d\u00a0 Paulette is a filmmaker, educator, journalist, and activist.\u00a0 Through her work with established and emerging media she explores how art, power, conflict, and justice inspire, inform, and transform.\u00a0 Moore is Associate Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Peacebuilding at ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø.\u00a0 She holds an MA in trauma healing from EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and is pursuing a PHD in Media and Communication through European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland.\u00a0 Moore is a founding member of Occupy Harrisonburg and runs the group\u2019s social media.<\/p>\n

Bethany Tobin<\/a> presents on, \u201cArt in a Trinitarian World: Kenosis and Generativity.\u201d Bethany is a visual artist who grew up in Thailand where her family helped plant a church.\u00a0 She received a BFA in painting and drawing from James Madison University in 2006 and an MTS in theology and art from Duke Divinity School in 2009.\u00a0 Her work revels in text and Asian patterns as it seeks to explore Christian symbols that are Asian.\u00a0 Pervading her work is the sense that the universe is charged with the generous pleasure of God.\u00a0 Bethany and her husband Stephen Horst and daughter Anjali live in Harrisonburg, where they are still learning how to live missionally.<\/p>\n

JR Rozko<\/a> presents on \u201cThe Role of Seminaries in Subverting Empire: Toward a Missional Vision of Theological Formation.\u201d JR and his family are part of Life on teh Vine, a (covertly Anabaptist!) church community in the NW suburbs of Chicago.\u00a0 JR is part of a DMiss cohort focused on Anabaptist Perspectives in Missional Ecclesiology through Fuller Theological Seminary, and serves as the Director of Operations and Advancement for the Missio Alliance, a new initiative of and for theological practitioners.\u00a0 JR blogs at lifeasmission.com<\/a> and contributes to resources and initiatives relevant to theological education through thefutureoftheologicaleducation.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference planners Brian Gumm<\/a> and Aaron Kauffman<\/a> describe the conference in this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnabaptism at its best has been a series of attempts both to live into God\u2019s in-breaking occupation and to faithfully occupy the empires of this fallen age, signaling the shalom to come. Anabaptists have gone about this work by imaginatively patterning their worship and witness after the New Testament communities of Jesus. Come explore ways in which the Anabaptist tradition can help inspire faithful occupation in today\u2019s world. Interdisciplinary academic presentations will be infused with worship and testimonies to open our minds and spirits to where God is calling us into mission in the midst of empire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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