I’m excited to begin our sixth year of the Plowshares peace club. For those of you new to the area, Plowshares is a group that discusses issues of peace and justice. We have participated in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Day March in Lexington. We’ve had conversations and speakers on topics as varied as Congolese refugees, Christian participation in war, peaceful interpersonal communication, environmental sustainability, peaceful business practices, and more.
Our first meeting of the semester, held in conjunction with Asbury University, will be held next Monday, September 25, at 5:30 p.m. in the Kinlaw Library board room (that’s on the second floor). Our speaker will be Tony Hall, a former congressperson from Ohio who holds a longtime passion for and expertise on the issue of global hunger. He is the author of Changing the Face of Hunger: One Man’s Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and People of Faith Are Joining Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (2007) and has served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.
David R. Swartz 