Here are the most recent additions to this web page. These updates are through 11/7/2001.
A fine Whittier poem from 1863
that sounds almost eerily contemporary.
Click to the EARLY Quaker Statements page for:
Three gripping personal narratives by early Friends:
Thomas Lurting, a
sailor who became a Quaker and faced pirates without violence.
Dinah Goff, who with
her family was targeted for slaughter in the blood-soaked Irish Rebellion of 1798.
William Rotch, in danger
from both sides in the American Revolution.
Plus an 1832 treatise
on Quaker pacifism by Jonathon Dymond.
Click to the RECENT Quaker Statements page for:
A thoughtful, searching
Epistle on War and Peace from Bethesda (MD) Meeting
A forthright declaration
from Friends in New Zealand
An eloquent Quaker peace
pamphlet from 1917.
Reflections by Paul Lacey,
Professor Emeritus at Earlham College.
Thoughts on the Biblical
Basis of Peacemaking, by Ron Mock, George Fox University; with
Comments by Chuck Fager
And Here's some SPECIAL Insight from Outside: Check out these remarkable pieces by
renowned Mennonite specialists in international mediation and peacemaking:
John Paul Lederach: "The Challenge of Terror: A traveling
Essay" -- Written while he was stuck in a Guatemala airport on
September 11, this is one of the most thought-provoking analyses of the situation we face.
Several additional articles by staff of the Conflict
Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University.
This resource first posted by Chuck Fager, Eleventh Month (November) 2001
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