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By Scotty Utz
Editor’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…
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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.…
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Faithfully Dissident
Those of us who just got here know how the machinery works. We were inside it. In the fall of 2014, I sat in the lobby of my White evangelical…
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What Two Ancient Rulers Can Teach Us About Power and Conscience
For 41 years as a psychiatrist, N. S. Xavier, M.D., studied the complicated voices people experience as conscience—moral conviction, cultural conditioning, group loyalty, self-interest and genuine concern for others. In…