Representatives from two of the “historic peace churches” — Mennonites and Brethren — met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to discuss how to revitalize the tradition of war tax resistance in their congregations.
[Barry] Kreider and [John] Yeatts agreed that neither purity nor protest resonates with church people who annually face the prospect of paying a share of the cost of America’s many wars. But witness may. “Jesus’s final instructions were that we are to be his witnesses,” said Yeatts, “and Revelation is filled with the language of witness.”
