A Minute on Peace

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A Minute on Peace

by Paul Rehm
Albany Meeting

 

The Quaker Peace Testimony—as I understand it—grew from the life and teachings of Jesus, was expressed clearly by George Fox and other Quakers in 1660, and was restated emphatically by New York Yearly Meeting in the current edition of Faith and Practice. Those seeds are among the most important foundational principles of Quakerism and are bedrock reasons for my membership in Albany Friends Meeting.

 

Just Peace

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Just Peace

by Don Campbell
Brooklyn Meeting

 

In wartime, conscientious objectors often serve in the chain of medical care. The hospital orderly in England who cared for my dad after he was wounded in the winter 1945 was a conscientious objector.

 

My Personal View of the Peace Testimony

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My Personal View of the Peace Testimony

by Chester Freeman
Rochester Meeting

 

I’ve always been a peaceful person.  Even as a child I never fought back when I was hit or bullied. Having been brought up in a fundamentalistic Black Baptist Church, I was taught to turn the other cheek. As a teenager that peaceful characteristic became a bit more difficult, but I held to it.