rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/peace-studies-book-club?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-peace-studies-book-club' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> World BEYOND War https://actionnetwork.org/groups/world-beyond-war https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg We're very grateful to Ross Heckmann for leading another round of engaging book discussions starting on the first Thursday in September, which will broaden our understanding of the peace movement. Here is a wonderful explanation of what we'll be reading, offered by Ross: "I recommend that we discuss, and that everyone purchase [or borrow], Peter Brock's The Quaker Peace Testimony: 1660 to 1914 (1990). Excerpts from Thomas D. Hamm The Quakers in America (2003) relating to the Quaker Peace Testimony can then be used to bring us to the end of the 20th Century. "We have already studied the history of non-church-based peace societies in the U.S. from the time they were first formed early in the 1800s to the end of the Civil War. We cannot really further and more deeply understand the history of the peace movement in this country, and the lessons that we might learn from it, without understanding the religion-based portion of the peace movement. The Quaker part of that history appears to me to be the most important and the one from which we most easily and readily draw useful lessons for ourselves today. "I believe that this book will be of interest to anyone in the peace movement, whether non-Quaker, non-Christian, non- or even anti-religious. To understand the peace movement in this country, you have to understand the religious, particularly the Quaker, part of it, even if Quakerism, Christianity, and/or religion is not your cup of tea." Please email Ross if you're interested in joining these book club discussions, and if you need any help getting a copy of Peter Brock's The Quaker Peace Testimony: 1660 to 1914 in time for the first meeting. We will plan to read the first two chapters (pages 1-23) in preparation for the Sept. 2nd meeting. Here is Ross' email address: RossS.Heckmann@gmail.com. (By the way, AbeBooks.com is a great online resource where you can purchase this title, used or new.) Zoom link: Meeting ID: 871 3811 8012 Direct Link to Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87138118012 https://actionnetwork.org/events/peace-studies-book-club