"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Barton Stone Hated War.

"A majority of the early leaders of the Restoration Movement were pacifists. At the age of nine Barton W. Stone had witnessed the demoralizing effects of the Revolutionary War upon his community in western Pennsylvania. He remembered the immorality that characterized the
military encampments near his home. According to Murch, he became "a confirmed pacifist, hating the cause and
effects of war in all its forms. He denounced war, along with slavery, as two of the greatest evils of mankind."

(Johnnie Andrew Collins. PACIFISM IN THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST: 1866-1945

A dissertation presented to the
Graduate Faculty of Middle Tennessee State Universityin partial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the degree Doctorate of Arts. December, 1984)

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