Jennifer Howe Peace will deliver 2013 Surjit Singh Lecture

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Jennifer Howe Peace, (Ph.D. ’05), Assistant Professor of Interfaith Studies, Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) and Director of CIRCLE (Center for Interreligious and Communal Leadership Education), a joint venture of ANTS and Hebrew College will deliver the 2013 Surjit Singh Lecture on Thursday, February 21, at 7:00pm. Her lecture, “Spiritual Other/Spiritual Self: Models of Transformative Interfaith Work,” will draw on her recently published book, My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis, 2012), co-edited with Or Rose and Gregory Mobley. Given that people of diverse religious backgrounds encounter each other daily in coffee shops, hospitals, classrooms, and around the dinner table, Peace will address the question "What might these encounters teach us about ourselves, our neighbors, or about God?"

Peace was recently appointed to her current position, the first tenure-track faculty position in Interfaith Studies at Andover Newton. Read more »

The lecture will be held in Pacific School of Religion’s Chapel of the Great Commission, 1798 Scenic Avenue (at Le Conte), Berkeley. Responses will be given by Charles Gibbs (Executive Director, United Religions Initiative) and Rebecca Parker (President, Starr King School for the Ministry) with a discussion moderated by Judith Berling (Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions, GTU). There will be a public reception before the lecture at 6:00pm in the Badè Museum across the courtyard.

The annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture at the Graduate Theological Union fosters interreligious and cross-cultural communication and understanding. Previous lecturers include Robert Bellah, Shibley Telhami, Diana Eck, Judith Berling, and John Cobb.

The late Dr. Surjit Singh was professor emeritus of Christian Philosophy at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, dean of the seminary from 1972 to 1978, and professor at the GTU from 1962 to 1988. Among his many publications are Christology and Personality and Communism, Christianity, Democracy.

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The Prince of Peace

This Christmas season, as we sing “Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all gracious King,” from the magnificent Christmas carol, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” we echo the words of the angels in Luke 2:14 at the birth of Jesus.  The “peace” that the angels proclaimed and about which we sing reflects a deep longing of the human heart:  Our lives are often in turmoil and wracked by personal hardships.  And we often despair when we hear of the countless wars, natural catastrophes, widespread disaster and suffering that permeate our world.  Consequently, we ache for the stability, the solidness, and the tranquility associated with that quality of life called peace.  Perhaps there is real wisdom in the words of the 17th century English pastor, Matthew Henry:  “The world’s peace begins in ignorance, consists of sins and ends in turmoil.”  The Christmas season offers a refresher course on the authentic source of genuine peace, for it causes us to connect peace with Jesus Christ.  Indeed, the Old Testament prophet, Isaiah, spoke of a coming Prince of Peace (9:6) and that is certainly what the angels had in mind when they sang of the Child on Christmas morning.

What is the peace that this Child, the Lord Jesus, offers to us?  Why is He called the Prince of Peace?  He declared shortly before His crucifixion:  “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Let not your heart be troubled.  And do not be afraid” (John 14:27).  The Hebrew word for peace is shalom (irene in Greek), which conveys not so much the absence of conflict as the notion of positive blessing, of a healthy relationship with God.  It also suggests the fullness of well-being, a freedom from anxiety, and goodwill and harmony in human relationships.  The New Testament teaches that Jesus provides peace with God through His cross, which then produces the peace of God as a quality of life.  It also teaches that His return will bring true global peace, which humanity has sought for over five millennia.  In fact, Isaiah 2:4 prophesies that at that time, the nations “will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.”  Through His cross, Jesus removed the cause of war—sin—with the result that through Him people can live in peace with God and with one another.  The Christian message at Christmas, then, is that peace has come because a Child was born, and that peace will come in all its fullness when He returns.  For that reason the early church declared “Come, Lord Jesus.”  The last verse of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” (not often sung) captures the essence of the Christian message at Christmas:

For lo, the days are hast’ning on,

By prophets seen of old,

When with the ever circling years

Shall come the time foretold;

When the new heaven and earth shall own

The prince of peace their King,

And the whole world sends back the song

Which now the angels sing.

His peace is the center of the Christmas message, which brings a renewed sense of comfort, stability and hope in a troubled world.  This year, may you find the peace of Christmas.  PRINT PDF

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