FOR Walter Wink and June Keener Wink Fellowship

It is an honor to be the inaugural FOR Walter Wink and June Keener Wink Fellow.

Awarded to divinity students enrolled in seminary whose study is focused on nonviolence or to an emerging leader whose work creates change and challenges power, the Walter Wink and June Keener Wink Fellowship honors the life and legacy of FOR member Walter Wink (1935-2012) and the ongoing transformational work of his wife June Keener Winker. Together Walter and June prepared a generation of peace leaders, pastors, and scholar-activists to engage the left and right sides of the brain in the pursuit of peace and justice.

Walter was an internationally known author, biblical scholar, peacemaker, risk-taker, and pastor with an abiding commitment to creative and active nonviolent resistance to oppressive powers. He was a pioneer in participatory sacred text study through which he explored the biblical themes of powers and principalities, and the teachings of Jesus on nonviolence. Walter was beloved for the accessibility of his preaching, teaching and writing. He believed the lives and faith of “average, everyday people” contained the power to transform the world.

June Keener Winker is a dancer, artist, and was Walter’s wife and partner of 33 years. Her body movement work invites the transformative integration of body, mind and spirit through encounters with sacred text. She continues to create art reflective of her contributions to those workshops that inspired people to connect with their full humanity.

For more information you can check out: https://forusa.org/2021/05/17/may-21st-is-the-launch-of-the-walter-wink-june-keener-wink-fellowship/