Dec 30, 2012 By Doug Hostetter Forty years ago, as a conscientious objector, I worked for the Mennonite Central Committee in Tam Ky, Vietnam, organizing literacy classes for Vietnamese children whose schools had been destroyed by theU.S. Air Force. As a Mennonite, I...
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Creating a Conscience
By Ethan Vesely-Flad The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. (Mahatma Gandhi, 1922) As a first-time father, I am newly attuned to the issues of social, spiritual, and ethical formation that consume the minds...
Strengthening young people’s resistance to violence: Why I support FOR
By Michael Harrington Saturday, December 29, 2012, 1:36pm I turned 18 in 1970, and was registered for the draft for the Vietnam war. To the dismay of my father, a career Army officer, I requested conscientious objector status. My Methodist youth pastor helped me walk...
Rhetoric and Reality
The Iraq War Seven Years On By Josh Stieber The simple days are gone where I could recall with fondness the words of a once-beloved leader and feel the inspiring chills toward a noble cause. “America is a friend to the people of Iraq,” the commander-in-chief had said,...
Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family; To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
By Mark C. Johnson Louisa Thomas never uses the word quixotic to describe the lives and passion of her great-grandfather, Norman Thomas, his pacifist brother Evan, or their soldier siblings Ralph and Arthur. But the nostalgic, ambivalent echo of lives largely...
Ten victories to celebrate on Human Rights Day
By Rene Wadlow Monday, December 10, 2012, 10:35am Our age which has often been so cruel, can now pride itself on having witnessed the birth of a universal human rights movement. In all walks of life brave individuals are standing up for their brothers who have been...
Book review: Snakes and Ladders
By Rene Wadlow Thursday, September 27, 2012, 9:14am The symbolic start of the Fellowship of Reconciliation was in 1914, on the eve of the First World War. Henry Hodgkin, a British member of the Religious Society of Friends and a former missionary doctor to China, and...
Fayetteville, NC: BPFNA/Quaker House Friendship Tour: A Front-Line Peace Witness
Posted by Ethan Vesely-Flad Monday, August 12, 2013, 2:29pm Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America Located near Fort Bragg (one of the largest military bases in the US), Quaker House is a manifestation of the peace testimony of the Religious Society of Friends. In...