Excerpts from Randall’s biography of Balch, “The Uncommon Bostonian.” Balch was a peace activist, founder of Women’s Int’l League for Peace & Freedom, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
Shalom, Much More Than Peace
Analysis of the Biblical concept of “shalom” and how it includes not just peace (absence of violence) but also other concepts such as justice and the equality of all people.
The Work of QUNO in New York
Story of QUNO New York work with the United Nations, with accompanying article about Quaker House at the U.N.
A Prophetic Vision of the Peaceable Kingdom
“[This] prophetic vision of the Peaceable Kingdom came out of the 1980 New England Y.M. ‘Peaceable Kingdom Workshop’…”
Friends’ Struggles Through the Years
Part of panel at 2003 Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference, about the spiritual basis of the Friends’ peace testimony.
Military Service and Conscientious Objection
Friend from Baltimore YM and the Center on Conscience and War in Washington describes what conscientious objection to war is and gives a historical perspective extending into the 21st century.
Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate?
Speech given at the Annual Meeting of FWCC, Section of the Americas, Philadelphia, 2002. As the USA entered a new period of warmaking, a Friend from Baltimore YM offered a vision of how we could work for peace, with quotes from the Bible and Quaker history.
Learning to Go in Peace
Keynote talk at sessions of Philadelphia YM in 2008, by pastor from Northwest YM, exploring the peace testimony and its Biblical basis and how we can live it in the 21st century.
Practicing the Gospel of Hope in the Nuclear Age
A Friend from New York YM sees the film “Gandhi” and makes observations about efforts to transform the world using violent and nonviolent means; he includes examples from the Bible, Quaker history, and other sources.
Wrestling with the Peace Testimony: In Spirit and in Truth
Talk given at FWCC Peace Conference in NC, 2003; Canadian Friend offers insights on the so-called “War on Terror” from one of the neighbors of the USA.
