Rethinking pacifism: the Quakers' dilemma in a time of war. (Gazette).

WHEN YOU SIT ALONE, silence seems normal, but the silence of a hundred people feels charged, alive somehow. The Quaker meetinghouse in Washington, D.C., is full this Sunday, as it has been every week since September n. As we sit facing one another on rows of benches arranged around a central open space, sunlight dapples the floor and birds chirrup outside.

Maurice Boyd, a longtime meeting member, stands to speak. His voice sounds a little unsteady. "I find my Quaker peace testimony stretched to its limit right now." Boyd's hands grip the back of the pew in front of ...

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