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Letters: My Journey to the Quaker Movement

[…] our nation become what King called a “Beloved Community” of peace, justice, and equality. It turned out that my scoutmaster […]

Steve Chase

The Responsibility to Protect: Quakers and Genocide

[…] Friends Journal in 2006, Answering Terror: Responses to War and Peace after 9/11. Pendle Hill and FCNL, among others, have […]

Jack T. Patterson

The force of war and the force of peace: the same force moving in opposite directions?

[…] tendency to see war as a very active energy and peace as a very passive energy. We refer to peace […]

Tom Fox

The Willoughbys on Pacifism

[…] the wider world is that of the people who love peace—who don’t go to war. The reality is more complex. […]

Gregory A. Barnes

Watu Kwa Amani

Watu Kwa Amani is a Swahili phrase meaning "people of peace." It is also the name of a conference to […]

Donald E. Miller

Peacemaking: Public and Private

[…] our basic testimony, it seems to me, is not " peace," but "peacemaking." Although the differences in the two words […]

Michael True

Peace March

On March 16 my husband and I went to a peace march in Eureka with our good friends Christine and […]

Carrie Gergits

To Friends Journal Readers: A Response

[…] my experiences have borne out the essential truth of the Peace Testimony. But other encounters—say, in the Balkans, or the […]

Scott Simon

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Inner Peace, Outer Peace

[…] I’m not saying that Quakers are hypocrites but given our peace testimony, I have to ask: how do we hold […]

Elizabeth De Sa

December 2015 Books

Peace is an Offering

[…] one of the best in my ten years of reviewing. Peace is an Offering is a book for young children […]

Reviewed by Emilie Gay