{"id":3374,"date":"2011-12-14T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2018-11-14T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T03:27:08","slug":"blevins-resigns-from-peace-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2011\/blevins-resigns-from-peace-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blevins Resigns as Advocacy Officer, Ecumenical Peace Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/jordan-blevins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/jordan-blevins.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/jordan-blevins-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>Jordan Blevins has resigned as advocacy officer and ecumenical peace coordinator for the Church of the Brethren and the National Council of Churches (NCC), effective March 1, 2012. He has served the Church of the Brethren, seconded to the NCC, since July 1, 2010, giving the denomination a new kind of witness and presence in Washington, D.C., and giving staff support to the peace witness of the NCC.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, more than 450 Brethren have called on their members of Congress to support policies more reflective of Brethren values and have given voice to issues including poverty and hunger, creation care, and issues of violence. The NCC has actively supported the ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, passed a General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan, and pursued a United States conversation following the World Council of Churches Decade to Overcome Violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jordan&#8217;s work in Washington for both the Brethren and the National Council of Churches has raised the Brethren voice on peace and justice on the national and international stage,\u201d commented general secretary Stan Noffsinger. \u201cHe is well respected and has received appreciation from many who have worked with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Blevins served in the NCC\u2019s Eco-Justice Program and Domestic Poverty Initiative. His last day of work will be Feb. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News bits range from a job opening for a district executive and writers sought for the Gather \u2019Round curriculum, to an opening date for online registration of delegates to the 2012 Annual Conference and news from the Brethren-related colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}