Скачать или смотреть Cultural Thursday 10/07/2021- U.S.-Mexico Border Culture - Rev. John Fanestil

Join us TODAY to learn more about the peoples of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Our guest will be the Rev. John Fanestil, who is Executive Director of Via International, a binational nonprofit organization working on both sides of the border in San Diego and Tijuana. As part of his work with Via, John convenes the Friends of Friendship Park, a coalition advocating for public access to the historic meeting place on the U.S.-Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. An ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, John also leads The Border Church, a weekly celebration of communion at Friendship Park. John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, the Claremont School of Theology, and the University of Southern California, where he earned his Ph.D. in History. He is the author of Mrs. Hunter’s Happy Death, (Doubleday, 2006), and One Life to Give (Fortress Press, August 2021).