What does it mean to be a pacifist? Pacifism is, of course, a philosophy, an idea defined by Webster’s dictionary as being in opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. It may also ...

Pacifism has long intrigued me, but fails to convince. As a worker for world peace for the past two decades, I have many times been asked to sign a pacifist pledge and have declined on both practical ...

MUCH of the bitterness between pacifists and militarists would be allayed if each side would fairly consider the other’s point of view. Pacifists in general accord more respect to the motives of their ...

THE GREEKS DIDN’T HAVE A WORD FOR PACIFISM. The term, according to Funk & Wagnalls, is of recent coinage, although of obvious derivation, and a “pacifist” is defined as “one who opposes military ...

A residential building destroyed by recent shelling, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues in the city of Irpin in the Kyiv region, March 2, 2022. (CNS photo/Serhii Nuzhnenko, Reuters) On the ...

For Joan Baez, her life in music began when as a 16-year-old ukulele-strumming 10th grader at Redlands High School in southern California, she took to singing songs for her classmates lounging on the ...