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Forum on genesis and persistence in advocacy for peace. Faith organizations. My name is john roth. I am editor of the mennonite orderly review and professor of history at Goshen College in northern indiana. I am delighted to serve as moderator of this conversation. Anyone who has taken a tour of the museum here or seen footage of the flag waving parades of enthusiastic young conscripts as they departed for military Training Camp in the summer of 1917 might have the impression that support for the war and the United States entry into the conflict was universal. Yet those of us gathered here for...

Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular red to secularac resistance and towards a new Conscientious Objection. Historically peace activism was...

Arguments will be heard today. Create a kicko for a samesex wedding. Many people are willing to go in and listen to the arguments. We will show you audio of that later this week. Us. Y we are guests joining chief counsel and policy director. Thank you for joining us. Lets start with you. Can you explain the concept of the case from the point of the baker . He is a bigger in colorado. He was an artist and realized he could merge that with his interest in pastry chef. Views his expression of his art. He has a lot of different types of cakes that he cannot make for religious reasons. He had a sam...

Interning with the First Federal congress project a long time ago. He is not sensitive about his age. He is too young to be that it seems like it was a long time ago and we were able to see him take some of these the he some of the stuff he worked within our office, develop that and work it into his phd dissertation, which is the basis for his first book. A well grounded hope, abolishing slavery and racial inequality in early america. He teaches at the university of mississippi, now we are really fortunate to have him come all the way up here to d. C. I want to thank the other people who made ...

Cspan. Next, Grace College professor Jared Burkholder talks about the differences between pacifist groups during the American Revolution. This class is about an hour. Well, good afternoon. Its nice of you all to come to class today on this cold day. But as ive mentioned in a previous class, our topic for today is religious pacifists and the American Revolution. So often we think about the American Revolution we think about military action so perhaps a topic on pacifists or those who refuse to take military action is an interesting angle. But let me begin by telling you about an incident that t...