I didn’t know Marla was a Friends World graduate. I thought I recognized a kindred spirit, when I read in the papers last April about her death, but it seemed just another example of one of the best of people, tragically killed.
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that Marla Ruzicka — a young American […]
A blogger calling herself “neo-neocon” has been posting a critique of pacifist experience and postions, starting with a look at Gandhian nonviolence and now at Quaker pacifism. Apparently the Quaker experience is more complex than she anticipated, so at the moment we have part 1 of 2: The varieties of pacifism (Part IIA): the conflicted […]
Through the centuries, Friends have tended to avoid secrecy and anonymity, choosing to stand and take the consequences for their public witness and testimony, rather than “hit and run” as Ranters and other religious dissenters tended to do in the 1650s, or meet in secret as Baptists, Catholics, and other Nonconformists did during the most […]
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