Archive for March, 2007

Quaker Peace Testimony

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Quakers today are perhaps best known for the “peace testimony.” I read of an informal survey of elementary-school-age Friends who, when asked what Quakerism was about, could only agree that Quakers are for peace.
That being said, I find the level of Quaker conversation about “peace” in today’s world to be pretty low overall. Messages in […]

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We follow orders, okay? And we buy into it.

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

From page 2 of a transcript of an interview with Karen Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col. (ret.), U.S. Air Force, at Truthdig, slightly edited:
JAMES HARRIS: … you were doing what you thought was right at the time. Is that a safe thing to say?
KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: We were doing, I’ll tell ya, there’s two parts of how […]

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