War Tax Resistance

The Liberation of Nathan Swift

On an April day in 1839, a young Quaker farmer was out with his plowhorse working the family fields in…

How can we work more for peace than for war?

Wars and preparations for war are very expensive. It is estimated that the direct costs to the U.S. of the…

Living Our Convictions

Faithfulness The first call is to God, to faithfulness. Out of faithfulness rises the call to live in peace. In…

Should War Tax Resistance Be a Corporate Testimony?

At New York Yearly Meeting in 1999, I was given a message: The Spirit calls Friends to claim a corporate…

A Social Movement that Could Abolish War

Our Peace Testimony stands out as central to our faith. Simply stated, we commit ourselves to not participating in the…

Render unto Caesar: A Text for Tax Refusers

To pay or not to pay—that is the dilemma. The issue of withholding portions of taxation is often fraught with…