What We Stand On

by Paul Christiansen

Overview

War is born from hatred, fear, and lies--and war breeds hatred, fear, and lies, a downward spiral that usually only pauses from exhaustion or ends in annihilation. Every act one side takes is viewed with suspicion by the other; the smallest slight becomes justification for revenge, and the act of vengeance is in turn avenged, round and round and round.

But the truth is that there are no sides. There's no "us" and "them"--there's just us. People are people; our blood is all the same color; to kill someone is to kill our brother or sister, our kin, a part of ourselves. And all people have something divine within them. To kill another is to destroy a holy creation, to spit in the eye of God.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162023548
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	06/22/2018
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #429
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	95 KB

About the Author

Paul Christiansen attended his first meeting for worship at age two weeks and slept through it. He began giving vocal ministry as a teenager. Somewhat to his dismay, he’s been compelled to keep giving it ever since.

He was raised in Eastside Friends Meeting in Bellevue, Washington, and attended Earlham College (Class of 2006). He works several part-time education jobs (teaching and tutoring), which give him some semblance of an income while allowing him to devote many spare hours to writing, both fiction and nonfiction, and doing Quaker work of various kinds. He has served on the advisory board of Western Friend, clerked the Young Adult Friends group of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, and actively participated in the Western Young Friends New Year’s Gathering. More of his writings can be found at his blog, the Generous Grasp (generousgrasp.wordpress.com).

This essay was born out of an intersection of several books and several messages given in various meetings various patient editors who helped these words through long seasoning.