Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee will speak in the Centrum Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. Gbowee received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for encouraging Christian and Muslim women join together and use nonviolence to end Liberia’s civil war in 2003. She will speak about interfaith and peacebuilding, principles she believes will be helpful…
Speaker shares lessons learned through years of activism From Philadelphia to Calcutta to Baghdad, Christian peace activist and author Shane Claiborne has been advocating against injustice around the world for nearly 20 years. Claiborne visited campus last Tuesday for a lecture and discussion, sponsored by Concordia’s Forum on Faith and Life. Claiborne’s lecture was entitled…
For the second year in a row, Jacqueline Bussie, religion professor and director of Concordia’s Forum on Faith and Life, has been invited to speak in Washington, D.C., and she has once again given her students the privilege to take her place. Sept. 22, Bussie and Concordia’s three Interfaith Scholars — sophomore Robyn Adams, junior…