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The Everyday Peacemaking Podcast features the stories of Everyday Peacemakers who are embedded within a world divided by difference. In the face of conflict, injustice, and violence, we don’t get even, but get creative in love. We’re not professional humanitarians. We’re everyday people who are learning to see God and themselves in our other. We’re daring to step off the roads of comfort and immerse into reality. And we’re choosing to contend in collaborative and costly ways. Everyday Peacemakers are a part of a restorative revolution and these are our stories. This podcast is produced by peacemaking training organization, Global Immersion.
Episodes
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
As a soldier serving in the US military, Diana Oestreich heard God’s call to disarm her gun while on the battlefield and turn towards peacemaking. As we hear from her in this episode, Diana’s radical conviction of peacemaking offers us a renewed sense of our own calls to be Everyday Peacemakers. She invites us to remember that at the core of how we vote and engage in politics must be an other-centered practice because we all belong to each other.
Links:
- Download the free Peace & Politics Practice Guide: https://globalimmerse.org/podcast
- Become an EMBER: https://globalimmerse.org/donate/
- Learn about our cohorts: https://globalimmerse.org/leaders/
- Contemplative Prayer with Global Immersion (Weekly on Tues, Wed, and Thur at 7am PST): https://share.hsforms.com/1KMGPA1DaSxOQs9GOp3gDowc3ovn
- Conflicted Allegiance: https://globalimmerse.org/public-programs/conflicted-allegiance/
- Learn more about Global Immersion: https://globalimmerse.org/
- Diana’s Website: https://www.dianaoestreich.com/
- Waging Peace Project: https://www.dianaoestreich.com/waging-peace-project
- Follow Diana on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianaoestreich/
- Follow Diana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oestreichdiana1
- Follow Diana on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DianaKOestreich
Diana Oestreich Bio:
Diana Oestreich is a soldier-turned-peacemaker and author of Waging Peace. She heard God’s call to love her enemies in the most unlikely place: on the battlefield of Iraq. Diana is a Peacemaker, Author, Activist, Veteran, and former sexual assault nurse. Speaking across the country, she empowers us to identify our own rural, urban, political or religious divides to cross our own “enemy lines” in order to remake the world and heal all that’s tearing us apart.
Music from Epidemic Sound: We Are Giants by Silver Maple: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ICEht6ut6b/
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
In this episode, Osheta and Jon share personal stories that led them to care so deeply about peace in the public square. Offering a brief overview of the history of Christian engagement in politics, and critiquing our tendency toward nationalism or apolitical withdrawal, Jon outlines a framework for engaging politics as kingdom citizens. Inviting us into her experience as a Black woman who is directly impacted by broken policies, Osheta shares why it’s important to understand the role of power, generational trauma and “rest as resistance” for those on the margins in pursuit of peace. She tells her story as a former Christian Nationalist and Apolitical Anabaptist that led her to embracing Contemplative Activism as her guide to following Jesus in politics.
In this episode:
- Defining the terms “peace” and “politics”
- Historical overview of Christians in politics
- Practical framework for engaging politics as kingdom citizens
- How and why BIPOC communities experience the midterms differently than dominant culture folks
- An invitation to Contemplative Activism as the source of our peacemaking practice
- Tangible next steps and resources for practice
Links:
Download the free Peace & Politics Practice Guide: https://globalimmerse.org/podcast
Contemplative Prayer with Global Immersion (Weekly on Tues, Wed and Thur at 7am PST): https://share.hsforms.com/1KMGPA1DaSxOQs9GOp3gDowc3ovn
Conflicted Allegiance: https://globalimmerse.org/public-programs/conflicted-allegiance/
Learn more about Global Immersion: https://globalimmerse.org/
Osheta Moore’s Website: http://osheta.com/
Follow Osheta’s on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oshetamoore/
Osheta Moore Bio:
Pastor, speaker, mother, wife: Osheta Moore is passionate about peacemaking, racial reconciliation, and community development in the urban core. Osheta (pronounced o-she-da, and no, it doesn’t mean anything, she says, “my dad just made it up”) serves as Pastor of Community life at Roots Covenant Church alongside her husband. Osheta is passionate about equipping the church to be everyday peacemakers. She is the author of Shalom Sistas, an invitation to women to practice the Hebraic concept of Shalom in their everyday lives, and her most recent book, Dear White Peacemakers, is a love letter to White Christians on their anti-racism peacemaking journey. She is also completing her two-year program to become a Spiritual Director so that she can help equip peacemakers with practices and prayers for the journey. Osheta has “flying in a hot-air balloon” at the top of her bucket list, and she is firmly convinced that everything is better after a nap. Follow Osheta on Instagram @oshetamoore for encouragement to practice everyday peacemaking and invitations for White Peacemakers on their journey towards anti-racism.
Music from Epidemic Sound: We Are Giants by Silver Maple: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ICEht6ut6b/
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Politics and Peace.
In the midst of today’s violent political rhetoric, the weight of oppressive systems crushing those on the margins, and family holidays becoming more complex to navigate, it’s hard to imagine how politics and peace have any connection.
We think they do, so much so that we are committing an entire podcast season to it.
As we enter the midterm elections, we're thrilled to announce that the next season of the Everyday Peacemaking podcast will focus entirely on Peace and Politics, exploring how we become Everyday Peacemakers in and outside of the voting booth.
Friends, politics doesn’t have to be such a scary word. It can simply be defined as the “ordering of society.”
Every society has to make decisions about how we order ourselves.
Everything is political, so we're going to talk about it.
This season, we are going to have the conversations that equip us to leverage our votes for the benefit of those on the underside of our broken systems. We are also going to have the conversations that free us up to have hard and healing conversations with family and friends who might think differently than we do.
Co-hosted by writer, speaker and peacemaker Osheta Moore, and our co-founding director, Jon Huckins, this season will be filled with dynamic interviews (with amazing guests each week!) and tangible practices that help us mend divides this election season.
We hope you’ll join us on the Everyday Peacemaking podcast for this season. Episodes will be released starting mid-September.
Learn more about Global Immersion: https://globalimmerse.org/
Music from Epidemic Sound: We Are Giants by Silver Maple: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ICEht6ut6b/
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode, we hear from Irish poet and peacemaker, Padraig O Tuama who focused on the power of language to restore broken relationships and provided conversational tools for disarming everyday conflict.
Follow Padraig and his work here: http://www.padraigotuama.com/
Music for this episode is by Scott Holmes: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Learn more about Global Immersion here: https://globalimmerse.org/
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode, we hear from Israeli peacemaker, Robi Damelin who insists that the work of reconciliation is a process that requires hope and that, over time, over takes our way of being.
Follow Robi and her work here: https://www.theparentscircle.org
Music for this episode is by Scott Holmes: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Learn more about Global Immersion here: https://globalimmerse.org/
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode, we hear from Oakland-based peacemaker, Rev. Ben McBride who challenged us to be hard on systems and soft on people; to prioritize formation in the stillness so that we can operate with more mercy in the storms; and to honor the image of God in our perceived allies as well as our perceived enemies.
Follow Ben and his work here: http://www.benmcbride.com/
Music for this episode is by Scott Holmes: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Learn more about Global Immersion here: https://globalimmerse.org/
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode, we hear from Twin Cities-based author & peacemaker, Osheta Moore who invites us to receive the reality of our own belovedness so that we can better acknowledge the belovedness in one another.
Follow Osheta and her work here: http://osheta.com
Music for this episode is by Scott Holmes: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Learn more about Global Immersion here: https://globalimmerse.org/
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In this episode, we hear from Australian peacemaker, Jarrod McKenna who invites us to allow the Spirit of Jesus to disarm us, un-shame us, and relax us into the work of #RestoringFriendship.
Follow Jarrod’s and his work here: https://jarrodmckenna.com
Music for this episode is by Scott Holmes: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/
Learn more about Global Immersion here: https://globalimmerse.org/
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Throughout the COVID19 pandemic, differing perspectives on faith, politics, race, and even vaccinations have caused many to terminate relationships with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Because interpersonal peacemaking is a priority for Everyday Peacemakers, we invited five friends and global peacemakers to reflect on how they prioritize relationships, tend to interrupted friendships, and build uncommon alliances. Our first ever Bonus Season features Australian peacemaker, Jarrod McKenna, U.S. American peacemakers, Osheta Moore and Rev. Ben McBride, Israeli peacemaker, Robi Damelin, and Irish poet and peacemaker, Pádraig Ó Tuama.
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Our guests this week are two unlikely friends and church leaders, Sarah and Lamont, who are doing exactly that—they don’t always agree, they don’t have everything in common, yet they lead their congregations in fighting for common ground and deeper friendship because it’s the only way to lasting peace.
https://www.costamesafirstumc.com/