{"id":6427,"date":"2013-05-01T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:20:20","slug":"manchester-university-peace-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2013\/manchester-university-peace-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester University\u2019s Annual Peace Week Opens New Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-426759053\" class=\"templateComponent mceCmsPageletVA mceNonEditable\" style=\"vertical-align: top;float: right;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/a-peace-banner-is-held-up-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/a-peace-banner-is-held-up-in.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/a-peace-banner-is-held-up-in-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Photo by courtesy of Manchester University<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Manchester University in North Manchester, Ind., held its annual Peace Week on April 14-20 with a variety of guest speakers, workshops, worship times, and a concert under the theme \u201cOpening New Doors: Acting for Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playwright\/actress Kim Schultz highlighted the week with the one-woman musical performance \u201cNo Place Called Home,\u201d which lifted up the stories of Iraqi refugees. Local musician Brian Kruschwitz supplied percussion and vocals for the show.<\/p>\n<p>The other spotlight event was a Saturday \u201cConcert on the Lawn\u201d with several student performers and headliners Mutual Kumquat, a band composed mostly of Manchester alumni and known for its message of social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Peacemaker Teams member Cliff Kindy spoke at the campus chapel service and also led an evening discussion on recent violence in Nigeria. Other events during the week included a workshop on \u201cTheater for Social Change\u201d led by Manchester theater professor Jane Frazier; a Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance service with leadership from Rabbi Javier Cattapan of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and a Peace Garden service project.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester\u2019s Campus Interfaith Board and Peace Studies Department planned the week, with assistance from the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Manchester Theater Society, and the Residence Hall Association.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Walt Wiltschek is director of Campus Ministry\/Religious Life at Manchester University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester University in North Manchester, Ind., held its annual Peace Week on April 14-20 with a variety of guest speakers, workshops, worship times, and a concert under the theme \u201cOpening New Doors: Acting for Peace.\u201d<\/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":[44,1264,19,1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-6427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-peacemaker-teams","tag-colleges","tag-manchester-college","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","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=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}