Peace

Visit to Vietnam

On December 11, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words: "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and…

What Are the Actual Costs of War?

Friends should discuss their differences regarding our Peace Testimony. Yet recent debates in Friends Journal sometimes seem to be a…

It's Time to Witness to Truth

It is no secret that Saddam Hussein has stayed in power for many years with the tacit approval of our…

Can Friends Come Together in the Search for Peace?

I am writing this because I was very moved by the articles of Mary Lord and Arthur Rifkin in the…

Essay on War

At the onset of the American Revolution, a group of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Quakers issued a four-page broadside declaring…

My Father's Peace

I am a member of the baby-boom generation, born after the GIs and G-gals came home from the Second World…

Fighting Pacifism

September 15, 2001: In the midst of unprecedented horror, I sense we have somehow been here before. The radio plays…

Our Testimony to the World

In the aftermath of our country’s encounter with its terrorist assailants, I have been sometimes dismayed by Friends’ too handy…

A Response to September Eleventh

As a Quaker, a pacifist, and one of the 9 percent of U.S. citizens who dissent from our country’s current…

Parenting within the Peace Testimony: Practical Tools for Creating a Peaceful Home

"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense…

Some Musings on Pacifism

The excellent contributions on the events of September 11 in the December Friends Journal prompt these musings on "pacifism," a…

Terrorism and the Practical Idealist

When I encountered Quakerism for the first time as a young man, I was struck by the sheer boldness of…
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