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A Brief History of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...
Like the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) began out of the horrors of the First World War. It also grew from the first...
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A Brief History of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
We turn to the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). As with groups in our previous installments (F.O.R. and WILPF), the AFSC began as a specific response to World War I. The...
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A Brief History of the War Resisters’ League (WRL)
In this series on the histories of peace movement organizations, we have been so far been examining those whose roots were in opposition to the First World War: The Fellowship of Reconciliation (1914...
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A Brief History of Denominational Peace Fellowships (U.S.)
People connect to the work of peace and justice, if they do, at the heart of their personal identities. For most people, throughout history, the heart of their identities is intimately connected to...
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A Brief History of Christian Peacemaker Teams
One of the most dynamic and creative organizations working for peace in the world is Christian Peacemaker Teams which works out of deep commitment to gospel nonviolence. CPT works for peace by...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2011: Shared by 3 Women Peace & Human Rights Activists
The Norwegian Nobel Committee (appointed, as mandated by Alfred Nobel’s will, by the Storting, or Norwegian Parliament) has announced that for 2011, the Nobel Peace Prize will be shared equally by...
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A Tribute to Walter Wink (1935-2012): New Testament Theologian of Nonviolence...
On 10 May 2012, Rev. Dr. Walter Wink, passed away less than a week before what would have been his 77th birthday (23 May). He had, apparently, been suffering some form of dementia for several years....
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The Practices of Just Peacemaking
In preparing for an extended defense of gospel nonviolence, I first reminded readers of basic principles of Just War Theory, the major ethic of Western civilization on war and peace issues for the last...
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Jeremiah the War Resister: A Sermon
Nota Bene: A version of this sermon was published as an article in The Baptist Peacemaker in 2004. Jeremiah: The War Resister Barbara Brown Taylor, one of Rev. Cindy’s major theological dialogue...
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In Appreciation: Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace With Justice (PCPJ)
I’m not a Pentecostal. One might fairly call me a semi-charismatic Baptist. The peace organization to which I have the most loyalty and identification is the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America...
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