Hunger Truth Podcast

Fri, 16 March 2007

In this episode, I have a Truth Talk with Ethicist Kent Sensenig. Kent was born in Saigon, Vietnam when his parents served as Mennonite missionaries for 10 years. He went to Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. where he received a B.A. in Liberal Arts with minors in both Spanish and Peace and Justice. He did a cross-cultural semester in Chile and lived a year in Washington DC as part of an urban studies program called Washington Study Service Year which included an internship with a Central American refugee advocacy organization. He spent another off-campus semester in the mountains of Oregon in a "great books" program called the "Oregon Extension."

Kent continued his education at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart Massachusetts where he received an MA in Theology in Ethics. He is now a 4th year PhD student in Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. He possesses a special interest in "historical Jesus" studies, peacemaking, political ethics, ecological ethics, and Islam. He spent 3 years as a research associate with Fuller's Muslim-Christian Conflict Transformation grant and published an article in 2006 called "An Abrahamic Paradigm for Just Peacemaking Practices.

Outside of his formal education, he spent 6 months as a volunteer with Mennonite Central Committee in Bangkok, Thailand working for a human rights organizations advocating for Burmese exiles and persecuted minorities. He took a 2-week solitary visit to the Occupied Territories of Palestine with the Palestinian Christian liberation theological organization Sabeel.

Kent also spent 10 growing seasons working on "community-supported agriculture" on organic vegetable farms in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Iowa where he headed his own CSA for three years. His wife of 10 years, Jennifer, is an ordained Mennonite pastor.

Finally, he plans on teaching at a theological graduate school in Ethiopia this summer. Listen in as we here his story, discuss animals rights, sustainable agriculture, the patenting of seeds, the ethics of Jesus, the morality of his God, and lots in between.

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