Destiny Magnett Guest Sermon at Second Unitarian Church
On Sunday, July 6th, CMEP programs and outreach manager Destiny Magnett joined Second Unitarian Church to deliver a guest sermon entitled, “Radical Love and Restless Hope: Pursuing Just Peace in the Middle East”. The sermon uses themes from Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World and bell hooks’ All About Love to discuss the threat of lovelessness, and call communities to courageously call for peace and justice in Palestine and around the world. Watch the recording.
Destiny Magnett is the Programs and Outreach Manager at Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) where she serves as the primary liaison for church partners, oversees CMEP’s online and in-person educational programming, and co-leads grassroots regional coordinator network. Grounded in deep commitments to justice, she draws from her own ecumenical Christian identity to help diverse American Christian communities deepen their understandings of the Middle East through storytelling, theological and scriptural investigation, and dialogue. Destiny holds an MTS and Religion & Public Life Certificate from Harvard Divinity School, where her work focused on decoloniality, religious ethics, peacebuilding, and religion in the public sphere. She also holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Grinnell College. Prior to joining CMEP, Destiny has lived and worked at the intersection of religion and peacebuilding in several contexts, including the Office of International Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State, Search for Common Ground– Jordan, Harvard’s Office of Religion and Public Life, and on the digital humanities project Mapping Islamophobia. While born and raised in Kansas, she is now based in the Boston area.