Open Forum with Tyler-Wigg Stevenson
Friday, September 24 | 6:30 PM | St. Mark's Lutheran Church
God and the Bomb:Christian Faith and the Nuclear Threat
Did you see the movie Countdown to Zero? There are over 20,000 nuclear weapons still in existence. The environmental and economic fallout from even one explosion would devastate our interconnected world. Security experts now agree that we are approaching a fork in the road of human history, at which we must decide between eventual catastrophe or a new sense of possibility. Tyler Wigg Stevenson is mobilizing a generation of Christians to ensure that biblical ideas such as protection of the innocent, care for creation and concern for the poor direct the nuclear course we choose.
Tyler is the founder and director of the 2FP (Two Futures Project), a movement of Christians for nuclear threat reduction and the global abolition of nuclear weapons. He also serves as chairman of the Global Task Force on Nuclear Weapons for the World Evangelical Alliance and as policy director for Faithful Security, a multi-faith coalition working for nuclear security.Tyler began his involvement in nuclear policy over a decade ago under the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston at the Global Security Institute, on whose board he still sits, and as study assistant to the Rev. Dr. John Stott. He is the author of Brand Jesus: Christianity in a Consumerist Age, politics columnist at Relevant magazine, and a regular writer and speaker on matters of faith and public life. His work has been profiled by the Washington Post, Christianity Today, ABC World News, and PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. Tyler is an ordained minister with degrees from Swarthmore College and Yale Divinity School. He and his wife live in Nashville, TN.
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Open Forum features lectures, performances, and onstage conversations with writers, artists, musicians, and leading thinkers. Featured guests are asked to articulate the important ideas and relevant viewpoints that inform their work and creative process. Open Forums are offered in hope that all who attend will be enriched and challenged by the distinctive perspective that faith can add to our lives.
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