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Holding The Line: Fall 2023 Newsletter Highlights

by Wayne Finegar | Oct 25, 2023 | Holding the Line, Military, News, News from the HomeFront, Peace, War and Use of Military Force

The Holding the Line section is going to be a way for us to share brief information about the new and the ongoing challenges faced by military participants and their families. We plan to begin doing short blurbs once or twice a month online and will include highlights...

Seeking How to Put Action to Witness: Fall 2022 Newsletter

by Wayne Finegar | Nov 9, 2022 | News, News from the HomeFront, Peace

A highlight of my first months at Quaker House has been visiting communities in Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, New York, Virginia, and across North Carolina. Two topics came up with every visit: reactions to the conflict in Ukraine and how can we be effective...

Thinking about Conscientious Objection in a Time of War

by Wayne Finegar | Jun 15, 2022 | GI Rights Hotline, Military, News, News from the HomeFront, Peace, War and Use of Military Force

by Steve Woolford, Quaker House Counselor to the GI Rights Hotline   When the Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent, I was saddened to think about all the people that would be harmed in the conflict. I remembered a conscientious objector from the US Army I worked...

Putting Action to Witness: Living into the Peace Testimony

by Wayne Finegar | Jun 10, 2022 | GI Rights Hotline, News, Our History and Work, Peace, Religion, Uncategorized

On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 63 Friends from across the nation joined together online to share their experiences of acting on their personal witness of the Peace Testimony of Friends. Wayne Finegar of Quaker House discussed the history and work of Quaker House and how...
Pushed Off the Path of War

Pushed Off the Path of War

by Wayne Finegar | Oct 25, 2021 | Conscientious Objection, GI Rights Hotline, Peace

Conscientious Objectors Tell Their Stories This is an extended version of the article by Lenore Yarger, Quaker House counselor to the GI Rights Hotline, printed in our Fall 2021 newsletter, HomeFront. Kristofer Miller was a sergeant in Special Forces training at Ft....
Hope and Sustaining Power

Hope and Sustaining Power

by Wayne Finegar | Nov 13, 2020 | GI Rights Hotline, Peace, War and Use of Military Force

What gives us hope? This has been a tough time. As I write this, the presidential election in the United States has not officially come to a conclusion and the nine-day interval since Election Day has felt like a month, at least. COVID cases are beginning their...
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