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a board member and former president and vice president of the peace history society. i m 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, women s peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post-1914 peace movement marked an important milestone in what john chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular resistance and towards a new conscientious objection. historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the cornegy endowment for international peace and the world peace foundation. world war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. during the war socialists, anarchists and other pol ....
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 this conference are keenly aware that there were many voices of caution, of dissent, of objection, and even open resistance to the war fever that seemed to grip the nation in the spring and summer of 1917. as we will hear in the days that followed, that dissent originated from many different sources and took many expressions. but one of the lead edges of resistance to the war cam ....
i m 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, women s peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post-1914 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 based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the carnegie endowment for international peace and the world peace foundation. world war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. during the war, socialists, anarchists, and other political radicals based their dissent on secular principles, politi ....
blood, a delaware state trooper shot and killed in the middle of the day outside a wawa convenience store. it s so sad. it s just so very, very tragic. a community comes to together in grief to pay the speaks to a fallen hero. this as a standoff continues outside the home of a suspect wanted in the deadly shooting. good evening i m ukee washington i m nicole brewer in for jessica dean. a short time ago. they identified him as corporal steven ballard. he was an eight and a half year veteran. he was gunned down in the parking lot of a wawa on pulaski highway in bear delaware around 12:10. he was responding to a suspicious vehicle when one of the two men inside shot him multiple times. authorities tracked the gunman to a home in middle town delaware. i remains barricaded inside and firing at the swat team. the other man in that vehicle was arrested at the convenience store. corporal ballard died at christiana. a long line escorted his body in wilmington. motorist ....
i m nicole brewer in for jessica dean. a short time ago. they identified him as corporal steven ballard. he was an eight and a half year veteran. he was gunned down in the parking lot of a wawa on pulaski highway in bear delaware around 12:10. he was responding to a suspicious vehicle when one of the two men inside shot him multiple times. authorities tracked the gunman to a home in middle town delaware. i remains barricaded inside and firing at the swat team. the other man in that vehicle was arrested at the convenience store. corporal ballard died at christiana. a long line escorted his body in wilmington. motorists pulled over and paid tribute as salutes as the procession made it s r way along i95. corporate ballard s casket was carried into the medical examiner s office. we have live team coverage. it shows you how a community is paying tribute to the trooper. shriv . reporter: i just spoke two state troopers they told me both new corporal ballard. it is a dev ....