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Jay Moses
Hope Presbyterian Church, Wheaton, IL
All faiths teach love. But the practice of love is often too weak to overcome cultural and political differences that tear societies apart, leaving people and other species destroyed.
It’s equally true that the story of different faiths cannot be told without speaking of the many times love transcends differences and solidifies united actions for justice, peace, and the common good.
This story of how faith differences divide, but just as surely how they come together in ways that transform people, societies, and the faiths themselves is the focus of this podcast. *And it can happen in a local congregation.* That’s what you’re about to hear in this conversation with Jay Moses, pastor of Hope Church (a Presbyterian congregation), in Wheaton, Illinois. Interviewing Jay was special for me (Lee) since I pastored Hope Church between 1989 and 1999.
Our “Common Good Feature” in this episode tells how Latino activism, especially through the Brown Berets, works for the common good from a position of being suppressed by the dominant systems of U.S. society.
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Grace Gyori: From Christian Imperialism to Liberation for All—A Missionary’s Journey
Over the years, religious missionary endeavors have too often proceeded alongside the the imperialist and colonialist impetus of nations. But many missionaries and missionary agencies have changed completely away from such entanglement of faith with colonialism or imperialism. This podcast tells how those changes came about in the life of Grace Gyori. Grace was born to parents of missionaries to China. They were incredibly adventurous, oriented to the service of humanity, and also unconscious of the larger colonial and imperial geopolitical picture. She married Tom Gyori and the two became missionaries with the Presbyterian Church USA in Guatemala.
Lee got to know Grace Gyori in the 1990’s. She and Tom were early founders of Jubilee Economics Ministries. Tom died in 2016. In Guatemala, Grace and Tom were not there to evangelize but to work alongside of the local leaders. Their spirit was not imperial, but liberationist, seeking justice for all, giving up the notion that one had to be Christian or that others were inferior. Instead, they understood that a missionary was a cross-cultural bridge engaging in important faith-based ministries, participating in mutual benefits as all people and all species are to be treated with respect.
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Fr. John Dear serves as NonViolence Outreach Coordinator for Pace e Bene, which is organizing Campaign NonViolence Week of Action in mid-Sept. Pace e Bene’s means “Peace and all good!”
He is the author of numerous books, the most recent, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change.”
Founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is now an independent, nondenominational 501(c)3 organization.
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John Dear, Part 1–Responding to Hate, Guns and Bombs with Peace & NonViolence
John Dear, Part 2–Making NonViolence Stronger in a Culture of Violence
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Bill Ryerson of Population Institute and Population Media Center
Episode 112 of SLW! Podcast–part one: Crises Caused by Exploding Population
Episode 97 of The Common Good Podcast–part two: Reducing Human Population through Methods That Work
LEE: Here’s a reminder of the enormous explosion in numbers of humans that have arrived on planet Earth recently. Today, Homo sapiens are by far the top predators on the planet. Our numbers have doubled since 1970—just 48 years ago. During the 20th century, world population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. In this 21st century, the rate of growth is going down, but we’re at 7.6 billion and still going up. Still, in some countries population is going down. What are those countries doing differently? And just what are the most effective ways we’ve found to reduce human population? What would be a healthy, sustainable balance of humans with all other species?
JERRY: I wrote an essay recently called Options to Curb the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis: OverPopulation and OverConsumption. I began the overpopulation conversation with my interview of John Seager, head of the Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth. PART 1 // PART 2
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