Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Winter 2015 Issue | Page 26

InBrief
South Sudan Anglican Church Promotes New Paradigm
for Peace
By Bellah Zulu for Anglican News Service
The Anglican Church in South Sudan has joined other stakeholders in the region to
address the country’s continued conflicts by using a team of community members
called “Peace Mobilisers.”

Peace Mobilisers are a group of about 80 well-trained community and faithbased practitioners from across South Sudan brought together to share knowledge
and experiences on the various approaches to reconciliation and sent back into their
communities to influence change.

At the end of a 30-day training period for this group last month, Archbishop Daniel
Deng Bul of the Episcopal Church of Sudan and South Sudan told the media: “Peace in
our country is paramount but building the unity of our people will be challenging and
will need commitment and courage. But we are a big group, a battalion of peace and we
can make peace in this country if we make a step together and we listen together.”

VTS Faculty Publish Books
Virginia Theological Seminary has announced the release of books by two faculty
members. Dr. Timothy Sedgwick, the Clinton S. Quin Professor of Christian Ethics,
authored Sex, Moral Teaching & The Unity of the Church. The Rev. Dr. Robert W.
Prichard wrote The History of the Episcopal Church – Third Revised Edition: Complete
through the 78th General Convention. Both books were published by Morehouse and
released in November 2014.

Prichard has served at VTS since 1980. “The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard is judicious,
thoughtful, and fair. He has the gift of summarizing the most complex of questions,” said
the Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, dean and president of VTS, in a seminary press release.
“The new edition will continue to serve as the definitive history of our Chur