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A Sermon in
Time of War

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, DE

June 16, 2024

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Social Justice

An Award Winning Resource for a Better World

Mae Elise Cannon provides a comprehensive resource for Christians like you who are committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale for justice and explains a variety of Christian approaches to doing justice. Tracing the history of Christians in social engagement, she lifts out role models and examples from the Great Awakenings to the civil rights movement. A wide-ranging catalog of topics and issues give background info about justice issues at home and abroad.

This handbook includes dozens of practical exercises for taking action, as well as profiles of key figures and movements like William Wilberforce, the Salvation Army and Bono, highlighting how Christians and churches can make a difference. Also included are spiritual practices and resources to help us move from immobility to advocacy.

"This is a cookbook for plotting goodness and stirring up holy mischief. Take a look and find a recipe for revolution. Then let us take it to the streets--interrupting injustice with grace, surprising the world with joy and whispering God's love to a broken world."

- Shane Claiborne, activist, author and lover, www.thesimpleway.org

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Activism

Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age

Activist Mae Elise Cannon takes us beyond the hashtags to serious engagement with real issues. God calls the church to respond substantively to the needs of the poor, the realities of racial inequity, and the mistreatment of women and the marginalized. We can accomplish change through a range of strategic avenues—spiritually, socially, legally, politically, and economically. And addressing the domestic and international injustices of our day takes us on a journey of spiritual transformation that brings us closer to God and those around us.

 

Channel your passion to care effectively for your neighbor and the world. This book will help you understand and put into action what it means for the church to be a place of peace, justice, and hope.

"With all that is happening in the world, there has never been a more critical time for this important book! In Beyond Hashtag Activism, Mae Cannon brings her years of experience and expertise to call us beyond concern to an authentic commitment to racial justice, gender equity, and global hope. This book is a very practical resource for anyone who wants to actively participate in God's story of reconciliation and social healing. I highly recommend it!"

 

- Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Roadmap to Reconciliation and A Credible Witness

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Holy Land

Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land

A Land Full of God gives American Christians an opportunity to promote peace and justice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It shows them how to understand the enmity with brief, digestible, and comprehensive essays about the historical, political, religious, and geographical tensions that have led to many of the dynamics we see today. All the while, A Land Full of God walks readers through a biblical perspective of God's heart for Israel and the historic suffering of the Jewish people, while also remaining sensitive to the experience and suffering of Palestinians. The prevailing wave of Christian voices are seeking a pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, pro-peace, pro-justice, pro-poor, and ultimately pro-Jesus approach to bring resolution to the conflict.

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Spiritual Formation

How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action

Activist and historian Mae Elise Cannon explores the direct connection between Christians' personal relationship with God and outward actions of kindness, mercy, compassion and advocacy. She looks at how notable Christian leaders were able to face societal challenges because of the rich depths of their spiritual practices.

 

For example:

  • Mother Teresa's practice of silence compelled her to service.

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prayer life equipped his discipleship.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community empowered his proclamation.

  • Oscar Romero's discipline of submission prepared him to face martyrdom.

Biographical profiles of these and other key figures from around the world give us concrete examples of how activism and advocacy can be sustained over the long haul.

"Jesus' gospel is a call to action. The gospel requires us to right wrongs, to heal the broken places of this world. Mae Cannon is doing just that. Read this book for its rich wisdom that fuels activism like Mae's—the kind of activism needed in our world's toughest places."

 

- Richard Stearns, president, World Vision, author, The Hole in Our Gospel

Biography

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon

Cannon has served as Executive Director with Churches for Middle East Peace since 2016. An ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), her ministry and professional background includes serving as the Senior Director of Advocacy and Outreach for World Vision-US, the executive pastor of Hillside Covenant Church (Walnut Creek, California), Director of Development and Transformation for Extension Ministries at Willow Creek Community Church (Barrington, Illinois), and as a consultant to the Middle East for child advocacy issues for Compassion International.

She earned doctorates in History (Ph.D) and Spiritual Formation (D. Min). Her Ph.D focused on American History with the minor in Middle Eastern studies from the University of California – Davis, focusing her dissertation on the history of the American Protestant church in Israel and Palestine. Cannon’s Doctorate of Ministry in Spiritual Formation is from Northern Theological Seminary. Cannon holds an M.Div. From North Park Theological Seminary, an M.B.A. from North Park University’s School of Business and Nonprofit Management, and an M.A. in bioethics from Trinity International University. Cannon completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Chicago in History, Philosophy, Social Studies, of Science and Medicine.

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Leading Advocacy for Peace in the Middle East

Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition of more than 30 national Church communions and organizations working to encourage U.S. policies that actively promote just, lasting, and comprehensive resolutions to conflicts in the Middle East.

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Soong-Chan Rah

"Mae Cannon's Just Spirituality is now the essential text that integrates justice and spirituality and empowers evangelicals for justice."

Recent Articles and Recordings

Opinion

I’m eager to talk about the whole gospel and all the good news at Lausanne Congress

Baptist News Global

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Palestine

President Biden’s Last Chance to Stop the Nightmare in Gaza

Word&Way

May 15, 2024

American foreign policy is now at an inflection point. President Biden has one final opportunity to put the U.S. on the right side of history.

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Palestine

Conservative Christians are lending support — and cash — to Israel at war

NPR

May 26, 2024

David Ndayishimiye, a 21-year-old evangelical Christian, says he's long felt a calling to support Israel.

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Palestine

Prepare Our Hearts

Do Justice

March 15, 2024

I would like to invite us to spend some time entering into the pain and suffering of others in Israel and Palestine.

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Palestine

Learning the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Do Justice

May 24, 2024

I have come to realize that the Western telling of the anti-apartheid movement has been significantly romanticized.

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9 Christian Women Shaping the Church

Sojourners

March 7, 2024

Mae is featured as one of 9 women shaping the church today

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Events

First Covenant Church Seattle

Guest Sermon

September 15, 2024

Churches for Middle East Peace

Solidarity Sunday Prayer Service

July 21, 2024

First Mennonite Church

What Makes for Peace?

April 28, 2024

A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast

Breaking Silence for Palestine w/ Mae Elise Cannon

August 22, 2024

Churches for Middle East Peace

Live from Virginia: Action for the Holy Land

July 13, 2024

Anderson Speaks

Radio Interview: The Wisdom of Peace in the Middle East

April 10, 2024

Christian Forum on Israel-Palestine

Evangelicalism’s Relentless Zeal for Israel’s Relentless War on Gaza: with advocate Mae Elise Cannon

August 13, 2024

Churches for Middle East Peace

Reflections from My Trip to Palestine

July 1, 2024

Inverse Podcast

Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage

February 7, 2024

St. John's Norwood

Christian Principles and the Gaza Crisis

July 21, 2024

Christ at the Checkpoint

Christian Witness in Contexts of Oppression

June 7, 2024

North Park University

Midwinter Award Ceremony

January 22, 2024

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