If you live in the Southwest and can get to Dallas, TX February 4-5, 2005, then start making plans to attend the Southwest Regional Conference of Every Church a Peace Church. Details are on the Schedule page of our website and more details will be there as they become available. The conference will be hosted by Cathedral of Hope and co-sponsored by Cathedral of Hope and Peace Mennonite Church. One can check their websites regularly for further details as well.

Peace Mennonite Church in Dallas, TX is a member congregation of the Mennonite Church, USA, an "historic peace church" denomination with a peace witness that began in the "Anabaptist" strand of the Radical Reformation of the 16th Century. Peace Mennonite Church is a part of the Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church, USA and is an affiliated churchwith ECAPC. Peace MC helped to found the Dallas Peace Center and Peace's pastor, Rev. Richard (Dick) Davis, is a member of ECAPC's Speakers' Bureau.

The Cathedral of Hope in Dallas is a large, ecumenical congregation which focuses its ministry and outreach to the GLBT community. Formerly affiliated with the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitarn Community Churches , the Cathedral of Hope welcomes all persons regardless of sexual orientation on an equal basis, challenging the double-standard sexual ethic which is traditional in most churches and a source of spiritual violence against sexual minorities. The Cathedral of Hope is in the process of affiliating formally with ECAPC, as are its secular orders of St. Francis and St. Claire and Dorothy Day. Cathedral of Hope's Minister to Children, Dan Peeler, has been taking the lead in connecting C o H to Every Church a Peace Church. He is one of our individual members and contributors, too.

Confirmed Speakers to Date:

• Dr. Glen H. Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. Glen Stassen is an active member of ECAPC's Speaker's Bureau. One of the architects of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign of the 1980s and involved behind the scenes in the successful campaign to ride Europe of the dangerous short and middle-range nuclear missiles forcibly installed in NATO countries by U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan, Stassen is on the Board of Peace Action and is an active member (and former board member) of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. A strong and creative advocate of the recovery of the centrality of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics, Stassen is the author of numerous books and articles on Christian ethics and peacemaking, including the breakthrough Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Westminster/John Knox, 1992) and the consensus work, Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices to Abolish War (Pilgrim, 1996) in which Stassen was both editor and contributor. He is currently at work on a major work comparing and contrasting three approaches to war and peace ethics: Pacifism/Nonviolence, Just War Theory, and Just Peacemaking with historical illustrations of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
• Damu Smith, Founder and National Director, of Black Voices for Peace, a grassroots effort to mobilize and give greater visibility to African-American efforts for peace and nonviolence. Mr. Smith is a longtime activist and organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and environmental sustainability. He has keen insight into the way racist, classist, and imperialist motives and assumptions play into structures of oppression and violence--and also unintentionally into the movements that would resist such oppression, undermining those movements. He is a board member of Every Church a Peace Church and has been interviewed twice on ECAPC-TV.