Linda Royster and Dan Allender

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Linda Royster, LCMHC, is the Strategic Alliances Manager and a Lead Instructor with the Allender Center. Linda has been called to traumatized populations since 1997 and is deeply committed to the recovery, healing, and well-being of her people. She has worked with latency age children, adolescents, and adults in hospital, academic, and non-profit milieus, respectively. Linda holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology Graduate School and is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who works therapeutically with a diverse clientele. Also, she authored the addendum of the 25th-anniversary re-release of Healing the Wounded Heart by Dr. Dan Allender. Her addendum addresses issues that African-American women survivors of childhood abuse might face.
 
Dr. Dan Allender is a pioneer of a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy, The Allender Theory, which bridges the story of the gospel and the stories of trauma and abuse that mark so many. Dan continues to serve as Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School. Dan is the author of The Wounded Heart, The Healing Path, To Be Told, and God Loves Sex, and he has co-authored several books with Dr. Tremper Longman, including Intimate Allies, The Cry of the Soul, Bold Love, Bold Purpose. Most recently, he co-authored Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals True Calling with Cathy Loerzel. Dan also co-hosts The Allender Center’s weekly podcast with Rachael Clinton Chen.
 

About the Allender Center: At the Allender Center, everything we do is rooted in the belief that true, lasting healing of even our deepest wounds is possible. This is central to our understanding of the gospel story. Our mission is to foster redemption and healing in individuals, couples, and communities by helping them tell their stories with awareness and integrity while also training leaders and professionals to engage the stories of others with courage, artistry, and care.

Learn more about our courses, workshops, and trainings, including the Effective Trauma Care training hosted by The Center for Formation, Justice and Peace at Journey Church on October 27-28, 2023, at theallendercenter.org/events.

Quotable

“Racism is a projection. It comes from places of unhealed wounds.” —Linda Royster

“We are a story. It’s not that we just have stories. We are a story.” — Dan Allender

Jemar Tisby

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Dr. Jemar Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the Church’s Complicity in Racism, How to Fight Racism, and How to Fight Racism: Young Reader’s Edition.

He is also a Professor of History at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville. Jemar has been a co-host of the “Pass the Mic” podcast since its inception seven years ago.

His writing has been featured in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the New York Times among others. He is a frequent commentator on outlets such as NPR and CNN’s New Day program.

He speaks nationwide on the topics of racial justice, U.S. history and Christianity. Jemar earned his PhD in history and he studies race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century.

You can follow his work through his newsletter, Footnotes, and on social media at @JemarTisby.

Quotable

“It’s not just teaching the wrong thing. It’s not teaching about it at all, which communicates plenty about the priority of such matters. You are being formed by something and to something. So in not talking about it, or better, the approach to race was colorblindness. Which is that we don’t talk about it, we don’t see color, those kinds of things. That mis-shapes our understanding of what race and racism are, how they function and what we can do about them.” 

Tory Baucum

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Dr. Tory Baucum, Director of the Center for Family Life at Benedictine College, served for 30 years as an Anglican Pastor, seminary and university professor.

In this past decade he and Elizabeth, his wife, worked ecumenically and closely with the Catholic Church, especially with the Italian movement Mistero Grande and its founder Don Renzo Bonetti. The Baucums spoke at the Vatican’s 2015 World Meeting of the Family in Philadelphia.

Beginning in 2018, Tory’s friends, Fr. Paul Scalia and Fr. Dominic Legge O.P., prepared Tory and his wife for acceptance into the Catholic Church. Archbishop Naumann received them into the Church Easter of 2020.

Since then, Tory has served in the Archdiocese of Kansas City-Kansas. On Feb 19, 2003, Professor Baucum was inducted into the Copernican Academy in Torun, Poland in recognition of his life’s work in peace building.

Quotable

“It’s terrible when we take religion or the Christian faith and turn it into an instrument of division and abuse.

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Katelyn Beaty

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Katelyn Beaty is author of Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms and Profits Are Hurting the Church and the editorial director of Brazos Press.

She has written on faith and culture for several mainstream and Christian media outlets and co-hosts the podcast Saved by the City. A native of Ohio and graduate of Calvin University, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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” So many American Christians have been shaped to think that justice is not an integral part of Christian discipleship and Christian formation. “

Charles Robinson

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Charles Robinson, along with his wife Siouxsan, founded The Red Road, an organization dedicated to serving and celebrating Native Americans and ministering the love of Jesus through practical support.

He is also the Founder of Atsiniki, a cigar company that seeks to honor Native American culture and the stories of indigenous people everywhere.

He, Siouxsan, and their 11 children work together to demonstrate how following Jesus and following the red road leads to deeper peace for all.

 

Quotable

“The Red Road means to live life in a traditional red man’s way. And what that looks like is having respect for yourself, respect for others, respect for all of creation, and  worshiping the Creator. “

Kristy Wallace + Bill Haley on The Repentance Project

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Kristy Wallace + Bill Haley: The Repentance Project

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We’re delighted to welcome both Kristy Wallace and Bill Haley on Peace Talks to talk about The Repentance Project.

Kristy Wallace is the director of The Repentance Project. As an undergraduate student, she studied Afro-American Studies and Public Policy at the University of Maryland (UMCP).  Kristy attended graduate school at Moody Graduate School (MGS) in Chicago, IL.  At MGS she was introduced to God as a God of justice.  Kristy’s training in trauma-informed Intentional Listening administered by Wellspring Counseling has allowed her to walk with families living in poverty as they journey toward healing.

The Rev. Bill Haley is the Executive Director of Coracle.  A graduate of Bethel College (1991) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (magna cum laude, 1994), he is an Anglican priest and spiritual director, having completed his training with the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation (2007). With his wife Tara and four kids, Bill currently lives at Corhaven in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

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The Repentance Project exists to encourage racial healing by communicating the systemic legacies of slavery, building relationships, and creating opportunities—through formation, repentance, and repair—for a just future.

Rich Villodas

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We’re delighted to welcome pastor and author Rich Villodas to join us for a brave conversation about formation, justice, and peace!

Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship, a large multiracial church with more than seventy-five countries represented in Elmhurst, Queens. Rich holds a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary. He enjoys reading widely, preaching and writing on contemplative spirituality, justice-related matters, and the art of preaching. He’s been married to Rosie since 2006 and they have two beautiful children, Karis and Nathan. He is also the author of The Deeply Formed Life and Good and Beautiful and Kind.

Quotable

“My working definition of the gospel is the good news that the kingdom of God has come near in Jesus Christ. And that in his life, death, resurrection, and enthronement, the powers of sin and death no longer have the last word. And if that’s the starting point, then the gospel is more than just a postmortem reality. The gospel is more than just an atonement theory. The gospel is more than just the forgiveness of sins. The gospel primarily is about a person. It’s about Jesus Christ. And that the kingdom has been made available in him.”

Lisa Colón DeLay

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We’re delighted to welcome teacher, spiritual director and podcaster Lisa Colón DeLay to join us for a brave conversation about formation, justice and peace!

Originally from Puerto Rico and now based in Philadelphia, Lisa has an MA in spiritual formation and a passion for leading others in formational practices.

When she’s not interviewing guests like Krista Tippett, Parker J. Palmer and Seth Godin on her podcast, Spark My Muse, she’s teaching in many settings from graduate schools to workshops, writing for anthologies and print publications, and offering spiritual companioning and retreats.

On this episode, she talks about her own spiritual formation journey and the rhythms of justice that shape her actions.

Quotable

“One of the ways I like disrupting a little bit—out of love, out of kindness—is asking people, ‘Who do you read?’ And it tends to be the people who are favored in the algorithms.”

One Year Anniversary Episode

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We’re celebrating one year of brave conversations about formation, justice and peace!

In this special Anniversary episode of Peace Talks, Director of Content and Community Katie Haseltine interviews hosts Vanessa Sadler and Bishop Todd Hunter!

Vanessa is a trauma-informed, certified spiritual director and Todd is an author, speaker and teacher who founded the Center and The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others [C4SO].

They discuss their favorite Peace Talks guests, why formation is always central to justice, what catalyzes their own pursuit of justice and more. Bonus: Find out what makes Vanessa and Todd’s friendship so sweet!

Quotable

“When I think about the way Jesus interacted with people in the Gospels, I see the way that while he always had concern for the individual in front of him, he also had the larger whole of cultural and systemic impact in mind.”

Vanessa Sadler

End Slavery Tennessee

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End Slavery Tennessee’s (ESTN) mission is to promote healing of survivors and strategically combat human trafficking in Tennessee. ESTN began as a grassroots nonprofit but was quickly elevated to a state expert on local human trafficking and survivor aftercare.

ESTN provides specialized case management and comprehensive aftercare for human trafficking survivors and tactically addresses the problem through advocacy, prevention and training of front-line professionals.

Opening in 2022, ESTN is creating a Survivor Restoration Campus that will offer a 2-year Residential Program that begins and ends with safe and stable housing; an oasis where survivors will build community for healing, housing and hope. Research and experience indicate that survivors require two years of stabilization, resources and care to truly address their trafficking-related trauma.

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“I encourage people, especially in churches, to consider that we are all affected by [human trafficking] and all of us are culpable.”