war and peace

The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Sappho Chose Love Not War, What Will You Choose?

By Legacy of Carol P. Christ on July 25, 2022 • ( 3 )

This was originally posted on November 12, 2012 We have been taught to speak of war and the heroes of war in hushed tones. We have been told that evil Helen’s choice was the cause of the Trojan war. 2600… Read More ›

Patriotism Reconsidered by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on July 8, 2019 • ( 13 )

Originally published on July 8, 2013 on FAR under the title “What Is Patriotism?,” this blog asks questions that seem even more important today, when tanks have been paraded in front of the Lincoln Memorial and children are held in… Read More ›

Seared by Vietnam by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on May 6, 2019 • ( 7 )

Warning: This post discusses and includes images of the violence of war. Recently I have been binge-watching the American comedy-drama series This Is Us. I am of the same generation as Jack and Rebecca, the parents of the triplets, but… Read More ›

Troubling Our Souls: Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia, the War in Yemen, and the US Military Industrial Complex by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on October 22, 2018 • ( 23 )

There is a very big elephant in the room. Apparently it is invisible because even the left is not discussing it. This elephant is the civil war in Yemen to which Saudi Arabia has contributed 19,000 (19,000!) deadly (deadly!) air… Read More ›

Stop Using the H-Word to Greet This Day by Kate Brunner

By Kate M. Brunner on May 30, 2016 • ( 11 )

Happy Memorial Day. Happy? Really? Every year, on the last Monday in May, this prosaic American phrase causes me to physically recoil whenever I see or hear it. Happy Memorial Day. With those casual words, tossed over shoulders on our way to… Read More ›

Can You Imagine a Society of Peace? by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on November 23, 2015 • ( 14 )

As war and the fruits of war, including hatred and the desire for vengeance, threaten our human community, I take this opportunity republish a vision of a Society of Peace. If we cannot imagine a Society of Peace, we will… Read More ›

Sappho Chose Love Not War, What Will You Choose? by Carol P. Christ

By Carol P. Christ on November 12, 2012 • ( 2 )

* We have been taught to speak of war and the heroes of war in hushed tones. We have been told that evil Helen’s choice was the cause of the Trojan war. 2600 years ago Sappho, known as the greatest… Read More ›