How to be a peace-oriented family
Mennonite Women Bible Study Guide by Elizabeth Soto available in May
by Patricia Burdette for Mennonite Church USAPrint Article Email to a Friend
The 2011 Mennonite Women Bible Study Guide, Seek Peace and Pursue It: Women, Faith, and Family Care, by Elizabeth Soto will be available in May from Mennonite Publishing Network.
The Bible Study Guide focuses on families becoming more peace oriented and less violent as indicated in Scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments. Soto developed an interest in reducing family violence through her work with families suffering from violence.
"Family life is near to our hearts as women," Soto says. "We are usually mediating, negotiating, intervening, nurturing and caring for those we love within the holy space of our family. We need to find ways of more effectively promoting the value of peace within our families."
Soto was born in Puerto Rico but lived part of her childhood in Chicago. In 1984, she returned to the United States to finish her Master of Arts in Religion degree at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind.
With her husband, Frank Albrecht, and two children, Soto did service work in Colombia for seven years and was ordained for ministry by the Colombian Mennonite Church. In 2005, Soto completed a doctorate in ministry with an emphasis on international feminism. Her dissertation, Family Violence: Reclaiming a Theology of Nonviolence, was published by Orbis Books.
Soto and her family attend Laurel Street Mennonite Church in Lancaster, Pa. Soto is coordinator for field education at Lancaster Theological Seminary and also works as an associate chaplain at Women & Babies Hospital in Lancaster.
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