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By Ian SimkinsRoughly five hundred years ago, Protestants and Catholics were at each other’s throats. Protestants were trying not to get distracted by fighting among themselves so they’d have more…
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Plowshares: A Word Addressed to the Present
The future cannot be the place where our obedience happens. A plowshare is not an abstraction. It is a particular piece of iron, shaped for a particular task, used by…
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Forging Peace and Disarming Hearts
By Scotty UtzEditor’s Note: Previously published in Friends Journal (friendsjournal.org) on September 1, 2026. Reprinted here with permission. Sparks fly as a gun is cut at the June 2024 Asheville event. Photos…
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We Must Sing Our Laments Together
By Andrew GorbyOn Conscientious Objection to a World of Violence We live in this world, but we don’t act like its people or fight our battles with the weapons of this world.…