Summary of the final panel discussion from the Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference of 2003.
Answering the Love of God: Living Our Testimonies
Keynote speech by a Kenyan Friend at 1997 FWCC Triennial in Birmingham, England. If we truly accept God’s love, then we must use the spirit of love to help our fellow human beings.
What Jesus Means to Me: Jesus the Liberator
Backhouse Lecture to Australia YM in 1981. British Friend describes how the life and message of Jesus has influenced his work for peace and justice, mainly through work with the UN.
Nonviolent Resistance: The Third Way
Article originally in Yes! Magazine with title, “Can Love Save the World?” Thoughts on pacifism after Sept. 11, 2001, from a Christian perspective.
William Penn: A Twentieth-Century Perspective
Biography of William Penn, describing his upper-class environment and his efforts to live out Friends testimonies.
Proclaiming Peace: Lives That Speak
Joffee: British writer summarizes the life of a man imprisoned for violent IRA activities who later had a change of heart and became a Christian pacifist; Deming: interview with mixed-race Catholic man in South Africa who was working for peace and justice in the 1980s.
Self-Giving Love
Talk given at World Conference of Friends in The Netherlands in 1991. Japanese Friend gives example of how we can live in Christian-type “self-giving love.”
What Can Love Do?
Story of Hector and Susie Black’s decision to speak against the death penalty for the murderer of their daughter.
Being Faithful Witnesses to our Friends Peace Testimony: Serving God in a Changing World
Panel presentation from 21st Triennial of FWCC in New Zealand in 2004: Friends from three different countries talk about working for peace and justice in their countries and the world.
Conversations from the Heartland
Friends Journal article: Midwestern “liberal-type” Friend who home schools her children describes her communication with other home-schooling mothers who are fundamentalist Christians, and efforts to find common spiritual ground.
