On February 24 this year, Russia invaded Ukraine. For now, I ask you to set aside all history and politics. I ask you to step back with me to that moment when I realized in terror that terror had just filled a country I had visited many times, where I had friends, where there was a Quaker meeting and facilitators for the Alternatives to Violence Project. The invasion couldn’t be happening . .
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The following resources were collected by participants in a Peace Testimony Discussion Group following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2022.
Pamphlet based on a talk that Robert Griswold of Boulder Friends Meeting (Colorado) gave at Santa Monica Friends Meeting (California) in 2003.
[The following article is abridged from a more complete original text, which is available at: westernfriend.org/media/evolution-testimony.]
[We] have been enabled to see a splendid vision of what human unity is, and of what human fellowship may be, and have of necessity been filled with a profound sense of the evil of violating this fellowship. This vision has brought us a renewed faith in the power of spiritual forces to build the structure of humanity, and to redeem it from error and wrong. . .
The following note was excerpted from a longer message. The original is published here in Western Friend’s online library.
A call for Friends to revive their historic peace testimony.
