Chris Rice (DMin, Duke University) lives in New York City and directs the United Nations Office of Mennonite Central Committee, an international relief, development, and peace agency. He served as cofounding director of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation, and has worked through the academy, churches, and faith-based organizations to heal social conflicts in east Africa, Northeast Asia, and the American South. Earlier he spent 17 years in Mississippi with Voice of Calvary, an interracial, church-based community development organization.
Chris' new book is From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis. He is coauthor of Reconciling All Things and More Than Equals, and author of Grace Matters, all of which wonChris Rice (DMin, Duke University) lives in New York City and directs the United Nations Office of Mennonite Central Committee, an international relief, development, and peace agency. He served as cofounding director of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation, and has worked through the academy, churches, and faith-based organizations to heal social conflicts in east Africa, Northeast Asia, and the American South. Earlier he spent 17 years in Mississippi with Voice of Calvary, an interracial, church-based community development organization.
Chris' new book is From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis. He is coauthor of Reconciling All Things and More Than Equals, and author of Grace Matters, all of which won Christianity Today Book Awards. His His writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Christian Century, and Sojourners.
Chris and his wife Donna, a nurse, have three adult children. He is passionate about soccer, the outdoors, poetry, and spy novels....more
In early April, I end my work as Director of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) United Nations Office after five years of service. Before that, my wife Donna and I served five years as MCC Representatives for Northeast Asia. We will be moving from New York City back to our previous home in Durham, North Carolina for the next chapter of life. Here’s a parting word from New York.
With Richard and Donna at a Duke Divinity School event.Richard Hays, New Testament scholar and one of the critical influences in my life, passed away
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