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Continuing the theme of \u201creconciliation\u201d on \u201cLeading Theologically,\u201d the show\u2019s host, the\u00a0Rev. Bill Davis<\/a> of the Presbyterian Foundation, invited the Rev. Dr. Laurie Lyter Bright, the executive director of\u00a0Presbyterian Peace Fellowship<\/a>, to talk about the multifaceted work of the 80-year-old organization. Their 29-minute conversation is\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat does PPF do? There are hundreds of answers to that because expressions of peacemaking have been different throughout the decades,\u201d Lyter Bright told Davis. \u201cThe throughline is this commitment to nonviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bulk of the work is around gun violence prevention, prison abolition, Israel-Palestine, accompaniment and the\u00a0Peace Church<\/a>, which she said is a \u201cgroup that helps congregations reflect deeply about what it means to be nonviolent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of late Lyter Bright said she\u2019s become \u201cobsessed with understanding conscientious objectors.\u201d She started by hanging out with conscientious objectors from recent wars, \u201casking questions and being a nerd about it, which is what I do when I\u2019m curious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI now have a much deeper appreciation for what conscientious objection is. It\u2019s an act of resistance much like nonviolence is. It\u2019s about living with this deep personal alignment: \u2018This is what I say I believe, and this is how I\u2019m enacting it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s \u201ca growing movement of folks who want to create the necessary paper trail to declare themselves conscientious objectors if and when a draft should return to this country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s all kinds of research on the moral injury that occurs for folks who enact violence, even when it\u2019s violence they\u2019ve been told, \u2018This must happen. This is the only way to stop evil in the world, the only way to resist damaging forces that are harming lots of people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She called conscientious objection \u201cthat moment of self-reconciliation with, \u2018I believe in a nonviolent Jesus who told me very clearly to love my neighbors and in a God who very clearly commanded not to kill.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could I possibly ask someone else to go do that for me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonviolence is a resistance strategy, she said, comparing what\u2019s required to the organizing work of the civil rights movement, which she called \u201ccreative and hard, with the amount of time those leaders spent on training people to find inner calm when violence is being threatened and enacted on their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not a fight for justice\u201d that\u2019s out there somewhere, Lyter Bright said. \u201cThis was right in the heart, and I take that lesson with profound humility. Most of the peace and justice work that I\u2019m involved in doesn\u2019t come quite so close to my own life, at least not yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \u201carticulated over and over again that this is a reconciliation \u2014 the world as it is, and the world as God intends it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I see our fates as intertwined, or am I here to help [people] out, which is lovely \u2014 go help people, that\u2019s great,\u201d she said. \u201cBut if you truly believe your liberation is tied and we belong to each other in those ways \u2026 then it changes how you move through the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

PPF does accompaniment work alongside the\u00a0Presbyterian Church of Colombia<\/a> when it\u2019s asked to. The relationship is more than 20 years old. Some people \u201cgo back year after year on their own dime and embed in the communities there\u201d to help secure the safety of the peacemakers they\u2019re with. \u201cI think it is both an opportunity for PPF to go and support and hopefully offer some measure of protection for peacemakers there,\u201d she said, \u201cand it\u2019s a huge opportunity to learn how much better this can be done than it frequently is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis wondered: How can people in the United States learn from other countries such as South Africa that have done \u201creally good reconciliation work on a large scale?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStep 1 is to have the U.S. have some \u2026 humility about how we interact with the rest of the world,\u201d Lyter Bright replied. \u201cWe are by no means global experts on peacemaking and reconciliation.\u201d Attending to the ways reconciliation works in other parts of the world \u2014 \u201cwhat has been successful and what has not been, and who\u2019s been at the table for those conversations \u2014 I thin that\u2019s something we don\u2019t do particularly effectively here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both the one perpetrating hard and the one suffering harm must be in on the conversation, she said. \u201cYou can have someone acting in a supporting role to that,\u201d Lyter Bright said, \u201cbut you can\u2019t arbitrate how that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen in doubt, Jesus. That\u2019s the children\u2019s sermon answer to everything,\u201d Lyter Bright said. \u201cTruly, one of the amazing things about the model of Christ is that he very rarely accuses. He much more often asks question or poses these observations, then lets the people come to the truth themselves. I think that\u2019s a really important way of being.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd that was ready to stone the woman caught in adultery\u00a0\u2014 Jesus doesn\u2019t \u201cJohn the Baptist, \u2018you brood of vipers\u2019 them \u2014 which is tempting, I get it,\u201d Lyter Bright said. \u201cBut he draws in the dirt and throws out this, \u2018all right, whoever is blameless throw the first stone,\u2019 causing thought and creating places of honest self-reflection. I think that\u2019s a really important aspect of peacemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonviolence, in addition to being a creative strategy, also gets peacemakers into \u201ca lot of spaces. If you can brave it, it lets you into community with a lot of different people,\u201d Lyter Bright said. \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be interesting as a denomination if we decided we\u2019re nonviolent, and that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re backing off one inch from the things that we say are important. It means we are going deeper into them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe systems of terrible harm are things we\u2019ve just accepted as the way things have to be. They were made by people. Let\u2019s unmake them,\u201d Lyter Bright suggested. \u201cThe idea there is enough food for everybody, but some people are going to be hungry\u00a0\u2014 we\u2019ve just accepted this tearing of God\u2019s kin-dom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, we say, \u2018I don\u2019t accept this reality. Our community together is going to move in this direction and allow humanity to be reconciled to herself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rev. Bill Davis is senior director of Theological Education Funds Development. Learn more about the Presbyterian Foundation\u2019s Theological Education Fund\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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