Join us on Zoom for a midday conversation with Anthony!

Friday, May 16, 2025
12:00 - 1:00 p.m

Take a pause in your day to connect, reflect, and be encouraged. This is a space to bring your questions, share your voice, and energize one another for the work of God’s reconciling ministry.

This session, we’ll be joined by special guest Prof. Drew Strait from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary to explore the timely and challenging topic of Christian nationalism—what it is, why it matters, and how the church is called to respond.

Drew J. Strait, PhD, brings a contagious enthusiasm for the world of the earliest Christians to his work as a pastoral theologian and theological animator of Scripture, seeking to connect the dots between early Christians’ radical discipleship and the ways Jesus followers can challenge empire and its theologies of oppression today. Drew’s passion for the church’s mission of peacebuilding has led him to various ministry contexts, including relief work with Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic, an interim pastor role at Living Water Community Church in Chicago (Mennonite Church USA) and serving as an elder at Peace Fellowship in Washington, D.C. Prior to coming to AMBS, he taught New Testament for five years at St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Come for the conversation. Stay for the connection.

Bring your lunch—and your heart for justice, peace, and faithful witness.