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FEATURED CONTENT FROM SSU ALUMNI & STAFF ON THE INTERSECTION OF THEOLOGY, PEACEMAKING & THE ARTS.


The Fragility of Welcome
Levine’s work is fascinating. As a Jewish New Testament scholar, she has spent her life challenging interpretations of Scripture that carry antisemitic assumptions. Her point is simple and profound: we don’t need to make Jews look bad to make Jesus look good.

Jana MacDonald
Sep 22


Join SSU at Church at the Crossroads!
For many Christians, the voice of Palestinian Christians have been almost entirely absent from conversations about Israel and Palestine. CHURCH AT THE CROSSROADS is an opportunity to change that!

Steve Schallert
Sep 16


Reflecting on Faith and Politics
The theology of a nonviolent, self-giving God who refuses retaliation and challenges state-sanctioned oppression is very inconvenient for a country that claims that the same God gave them divine permission to steal, kill, and pillage their way across the continent they now call home.

Faith Edwards
Aug 26


My (Contemplative) Backcountry Camping Reading List
Spiritual pilgrimages are important. Over the past 4 years, I’ve intentionally undertaken annual summer pilgrimages to European, medieval-era cathedrals - something that has allowed me to visit and pray in some of the largest and oldest European cathedrals from Switzerland to Germany to Luxembourg to France to Belgium to the Netherlands to my most recent trip to the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago ...

Fr. Joash Thomas
Jul 27


The Church Taught Me to Love My Enemies-Then Blessed Me as I Went to War
by. Jason Burkett (US Army veteran and M.A. in Peace & Justice student) I joined the Army twice. The first time (1989-1996), I was a junior in high school, the summer before my senior year. My dad was a truck driver, my mom was a teacher, and we didn’t have much money. I knew my parents couldn’t afford to send both my sister and me to college, and back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, it was all anyone talked about: college, college, college. My dad had served in Vietnam. My

Jason Burkett
Jul 4
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