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The Lion and Lamb: Peace Garden

The Lion and Lamb: Peace Garden

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Preview of the Honda Outdoor Sculpture Garden
Funded by Honda Corporation and dedicated in 1997 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center. This outdoor setting reflects various aspects of peace and recognize the efforts of individuals who lived the message of peace for the sake of others.

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” - A.J. Muste

PEACE HOUSE by Jack Mann
This sculpture of stainless steel suggests some definitions of the peaceful and not-so-peaceful world of “home:” a nest of birds with a cat hovering below, a haven where children create and act out their dreams or a place where everything is turned upside down. Peace House, created by a Wittenburg University art professor, invites those whose faces are reflected in the mirror-finish of the sculpture to think about “home” and to place within one of the four rooms something from their world that can make Peace House a personal experience for them.

JOHNAH AND THE WHALE by Gregg Luginbuhl
Jonah’s deliverance from the whale was created as an acrobatic resurgence, a kind of spiritual transformation. Free from any encumbrances, the open figure’s leap and reach are juxtaposed with the cruciform flukes of the whale. Surrounded by stone seats, visitors to this bronze sculpture by a Bluffton University professor are invited to sit and ponder their own experiences of transformation from chaos to peace.

PEACE THRONES by B. Amore and Woody Dorsey
Located below Sauder Visual Arts Center near the Riley Creek and based on legends found in many cultures, the three large granite rocks create as a neutral space to foster dialogue and listening in an effort to resolve conflict through dialogue without resorting to violence.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE POLE
The six-sided western cedar International Peace Pole was planted in 2007 to mark The Lion and Lamb’s twentieth years of promoting peace.

“May peace prevail on earth” is translated into twelve languages, most of which represent the languages of current Bluffton University students: Arabic, Bosnia, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Lakota Sioux, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.

PEACE WALL AND MOON GATE by Jon Barlow Hudson
Using mixed media, this sculptor replicated the Berlin Wall, a prison wall, a stockade wall and a memorial wall as an interactive art experience representing how we close people out, hold them in or immortalize them with walls of various kinds. On the stockade, prison and memorial wall sections are the names of those who have spent their lives working for peace and justice. Some have died as a result, some have been imprisoned but all, regardless of the sacrifice, have been committed to working for peace and justice around the globe. The 800 four inch graffiti tiles on the Berlin Wall were designed by Lima Senior High School art students under the direction of art teacher and Bluffton graduate student Lisa Arnett Carver. The circular shape of the moon gate represents unity and completeness entering our lives. Passing through the moon gate is a symbolic gesture of refusing to allow walls to separate us from others.

Granite Section of Peace Wall

Oscar Romero	El Salvadoran Archbishop, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, assassinated
Jesus Christ	incarnate Son of God, taught followers to love their enemies and turn the other cheek
Mahatma Gandhi	launched campaigns of nonviolent resistance in South Africa and India
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for civil rights and non-violence resistance
Seth Laughlin	Quaker, refused military service during Civil War, arrested and tortured, died in prison
Maurilia Coc Macs Santiago Coc Pop	Guatemalan Indian children killed by the army in October 1995
Helen Caldicott	anti-nuclear activist, physician
Harriet Tubman	abolitionist, escaped from slavery in 1849, helped others to freedom
David Dodge	a merchant and pacifist, founder of New York Peace Society in 1815
Thomas Merton	religious writer and poet, Trappist monk, priest
Gustavo Parajon	Nicaraguan peace mediator with John Paul Lederach
Mubarak Awad	founder of Nonviolence International and Palestinian Center for Nonviolence in Jerusalem
Margareta Sattler Michael Sattler	drowned/burned at the stake as martyrs for Anabaptist faith
Baldemar Velasquez	Latino leader and Ohio farm labor organizer
Stephen Wang	victim of Great Cultural Revolution in China; Educational Exchange Student to Bluffton
Mother Teresa	Catholic missionary serving poor of India, Nobel Prize winner
Dorothy Day	Catholic Worker Movement, pacifist, “Houses of Hospitality” in voluntary poverty
Stephen Biko	South African founder/leader of Black Consciousness Movement, died in police custody
Peace Pilgrim	walked 2500+ miles to advocate for peace among: nations, groups, individuals, inner peace
Daniel Gerber	MCC volunteer in Vietnam
Ivo Markovic	Bosnian Franciscan priest, international peacemaking efforts, lives in exile in Zagreb
Ken Saro-Wiwa	Nigerian human rights, murdered by the military government
Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Dorothy Kazel	nuns killed by the military in El Salvador in 1980
Myles Horton	founded the Highlander Folk School and was active in the early Civil rights movement
Colman McCarthy	founder/director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington D. C
Dom Helger Camara	Brazilian archbishop, social worker, human rights organizer, advocate of the poor
Adolfo Perez Esquivel	Argentine Nobel Prize winner, leader of Servicio Paz y Justicia
Norman Bent	Nicaraguan peace mediator with John Paul Lederach
Ted Studebaker	social worker killed by Viet Cong
Menno Simons	Anabaptist peacemaker in the 16^th century, “Mennonite” derived from his name
Anna Janz	Anabaptist martyr remembered through letter to her infant son, Isaiah; in Martyr’s Mirror
Dirk Willems	Anabaptist who rescued his persecutor from drowning and was later executed
Clayton Kratz	MCC worker in Ukraine, arrested and vanished
Bartolome de las Casas	advocate for Native American rights and justice
Thich Nhat Hanh	Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peacemaker between Christians and Buddhists
St. Maximilianus	North Africa, refused to go to war
Jeanette Rankin	first woman elected to Congress, pacifist, voted against U.S entry into both World Wars
St. Francis of Assisi	Franciscan rule: ”…not to take up deadly weapons or bear arms against anyone.”
Paulo Freire	Brazilian educator
Bayard Rustin	founder of Congress on Racial Equality
WM. Lloyd Garrison	anti-slavery advocate
Norman Thomas	minister in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, “You cannot conquer war by war.”
George Fox	Quaker leader/founder Society of Friends
Lydia Maria Child	peace advocate and abolitionist
Maria Weston Chapman	abolitionist
Elihu Burrett	founded the first secular pacifist organization in the U.S, the “Learned Blacksmith”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	woman’s rights advocate, organized the first Woman’s Rights Convention
Mohamed Anwar El Sadat	former president of Egypt, Nobel Peace Prize winner, assassinated
Jane Addams	pacifist and social worker, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

Stockade Walls of Peace Wall

Black Kettle	Cheyenne chief, peace advocate for Native Americans despite threats on his life
Deganwide	founder of the league of five Iroquois nations and the Law of the Great Peace
Leonard Peltier	American Indian Movement leader, falsely accused of murder and imprisoned
Sequoyah	creator of the Cherokee writing system
Lawrence Hart	Cheyenne peace chief
Black Elk	Oglala Lakota religious leader who became a Christian and shared his faith with other tribes
Chief Joseph	Wallowa Valley Nez Perce leader, peace advocate between Native Americans and whites
Nancy Ward	Cherokee peace warrior

Prison Gates of Peace Wall

Dennis Koehn
Lawrence Templin	Mennonite imprisoned during WWII for his CO position
Dalai Lama	spiritual/political leader of Tibet, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1989
Larry Garra	Quaker imprisoned during WWII for his CO position
Badshah Kan	peace advocate between groups in Pakistan
Rosa Parks	participated in nonviolent civil rights movement in US through Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sybill Arredondo	the anthropologist from Chile, imprisoned in Peru as a human rights activist
Raul Wallenberg	saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, disappeared while in Russian captivity
Henry David Thoreau	poet/author of Civil Disobedience
Elie Wiesel	the Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, survivor from Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Glewitz
Nelson Mandela	1993 Nobel Peace Prize, 30 years imprisoned for anti-apartheid, South African president

Berlin Wall of Peace Wall
Constructed in 1961 to separate West Germany from East Germany, the Berlin Wall represented the barrier between the countries of Western Europe and the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and was called the “Iron Curtain” by Winston Churchill, the leader of Great Britain. The broken section of the wall represents the destruction of the wall in 1989 and preceded many political and economic changes in that area of the world.

Moon Gate of Peace Wall
Visitors are invited to pass through the Moon Gate as a symbolic gesture of refusing to allow walls to separate them from others. The circular shape of the Moon Gate suggests unity and completeness entering our lives. At the entrance of the Moon Gate are two shelves on which visitors might leave symbols of those things they want to let go of or leave behind as they pass through.