Articles, news, campaigns and events about pacifism
Jan 13, 2012, 10:31am
FOR
“This book of twenty stories was written to encourage the reader of life’s inward and outward journeys. They are meant to encourage you as you grapple with the mystery, challenge, and call of the divinity that is in everyone.”...
Jan 9, 2012, 2:17pm
Jerry Elmer
January 12, 2012 is the one hundredth anniversary of the commencement of one of the most important labor strikes in American history – the bloody 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile strike that lasted 63 days. The strike represented the...
Oct 17, 2011, 4:46pm
Mark Johnson
The arts of propaganda are alive and well in the turbulent world let loose in the Arab Spring and now circling the globe in an Autumn of Our Discontent.The hounds of war are playing a symphony of deception, orchestrated in anxiety over evidence...
Sep 8, 2011, 10:20am
IFOR
Dear friends of IFOR branches and affiliate groups,Please take note of the open position of International Coordinator of IFOR. We encourage you to circulate this among your members and to potential candidates. Please note the attached PDF for...
Sep 1, 2011, 3:54pm
FOR
This week, two delegations sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation are leaving the U.S. to provide solidarity and support for peacemakers in the Greater Middle East, and in the coming weeks two other delegations organized by FOR staff and...
Aug 29, 2011, 2:48pm
Ethan Vesely-Flad
In yesterday’s “Sunday Review” section of The New York Times, Louisa Thomas penned an excellent op-ed titled “Give Pacifism a Chance.” Thomas is the great-granddaughter of Fellowship of Reconciliation early leader...
Jun 21, 2011, 1:14pm
FOR
by Lucas JohnsonThe University of Denver campus was alive with discussions about mass incarceration when I arrived in Colorado in mid-February. Professor Michelle Alexander – civil rights advocate and litigator, and author of The New Jim Crow:...
Jun 21, 2011, 11:30am
FOR
by Thomas C. Fox The perpetually restless and rebellious John M. Swomley, theology student-turned-pacifist-...
Jun 14, 2011, 8:57pm
Mark Johnson
Conscience was named one of the ten best books of the month by Barnes and Noble this week, putting a story that details the life of one of FOR’s early leaders in a prominent and deserving place on bookshelves across America. This is the story of the...
