Talk Examines Global Peacemakers

Jon Huckins, co-founding director of the Global Immersion Project, explores the importance of cultivating everyday peacemakers through immersion in global conflict on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The lecture, “Global Peacemaking as Discipleship: Lessons from Welcoming the Stranger,” is free and open to the public.

Huckins works with leaders at the U.S./Mexico border as well as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “His work gives practical voice and action on how Christians can be responsible and responsive peacemakers every day in our neighborhoods as well as in regions of the world that experience conflict and suffering,” says professor Cynthia Toms, who organized the lecture on behalf of the Global Studies Fellows Program.“He will share his experience of working with faith leaders and young people in these contexts and challenge us to consider how we are called to move from lofty idealisms of peacemaking to an embodied way of life.”

Huckins writes and speaks about peacemaking, local/global engagement and activating the church as an agent of reconciliation in the world. He has written for numerous publications including Red Letter Christians, Sojourners and RELEVANT. In 2012 he authored a book, “Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community.” He has also written other books, including “Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling: Creating Fictional Stories that Illuminate the Message of Jesus” and “Good News in the Neighborhood: A 6-Week Curriculum for Groups.”

He graduated from Golden Gate University and earned a Master of Arts degree at Fuller Theological Seminary.

While leading a delegation through the Holy Land earlier this year, Huckins interviewed Morgan Freeman, exploring life’s big questions. Here is the audio and story about the interview.