My Personal View of the Peace Testimony

by Chester Freeman
Rochester Meeting

I’ve always been a peaceful person.  Even as a child I never fought back when I was hit or bullied. Having been brought up in a fundamentalistic Black Baptist Church, I was taught to turn the other cheek. As a teenager that peaceful characteristic became a bit more difficult, but I held to it.

Peace is Possible

by Nadine Hoover
Buffalo Meeting

Through Friends Peace Teams, I have gotten to know people suffering from extreme violence from El Salvador to North Kivu to Ukraine to West Papua. We say peace is possible, because living in a state of war is intolerable and inhuman and we have alternatives. In my experience it’s people not in war who question whether peace is possible. 

Making Peace with the Peace Testimony

by Susan Weisfeld
Scarsdale Meeting

Susan Weisfeld served as the guest editor for this issue of Spark. 

I used to take the Peace Testimony literally and then get upset when I felt it was not happening according to how I thought it should work.  Britain YM states, “We call for grassroots action and political change towards a peaceful, just and sustainable global society.”