{"id":7595,"date":"2018-08-02T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/02\/nobody-in-their-right-mind-would-do-what-this-peace-activist-has-done\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:14:57","slug":"nobody-in-their-right-mind-would-do-what-this-peace-activist-has-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nobody-in-their-right-mind-would-do-what-this-peace-activist-has-done\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody in their right mind\u2019 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After serving 20 years at\u00a0Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America\u00a0(BPFNA), 1989 Furman University psychology alumna\u00a0LeDayne McLeese Polaski has announced that she&#8217;ll step down from the Fellowship&#8217;s executive director post in May 2019. Under her leadership, BPFNA is lauded for its bold embrace of Hispanics on both sides of the border, and its work addressing racial justice, immigration, and gun violence, among other issues. In her remaining months with the Charlotte-based Fellowship, Polaski has much to do, says writer Jeff Brumley of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/nobody-in-their-right-mind-would-do-what-this-peace-activist-has-done\/#.W2M06lBKi6Q\">Baptist News Global<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0He speaks to Polaski and founding BPFNA board president George Williamson who said,\u00a0\u201cNone of this [progress] would have happened if it wasn\u2019t for LeDayne because nobody in their right mind would have taken it on \u2013 and she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LeDayne McLeese Polaski, M.Div, was the recipient of the 2016\u00a0Richard Furman Baptist Heritage Award, which honors a graduate who reflects Baptist ideals by thinking critically, living compassionately and making life-changing commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving 20 years at\u00a0Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America\u00a0(BPFNA), 1989 Furman University psychology alumna\u00a0LeDayne McLeese Polaski has announced that she&#8217;ll step down from the Fellowship&#8217;s executive director post in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}