Teaching Peace — A Bibliography

Videos “Before You Enlist” https://www.afsc.org/video/you-enlist-2011 “Conscience of a Nation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFAN–llOE “The Conscientious Objector.” https://www.adventsource.org/store/adult-ministries/audiovisual/the-conscientious-objector-blu-ray-38916 “Field Punishment No. 1” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3124186/ “The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It: Conscientious Objectors in WWII.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314116/ “Hacksaw Ridge.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119532/ “A Matter of Conscience.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSLHb0TGcQ&t=614s “Operation Whitecoat.” http://operationwhitecoatmovie.com “Out of Cordoba.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1604147/ “Pax Service: An Alternative to War.”…

One of Us

Sermon preached Easter 2019 Parents, you have probably seen the bumper sticker that says, “Insanity is Hereditary: You Get It from Your Children.” Kids. What can we say about them? They have this ability to drag us through the spectrum of human emotions from one day to the next, and sometimes from one minute to the next.…

Adventists and Military Service — Beginnings

The Seventh-day Adventist Church was organized in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1863, in the middle of the US Civil War. The church membership was entirely in the northern states, and decidedly abolitionist, and yet was opposed to war and the bearing of arms. The passing of the first US draft law spurred the organization effort.…