Reflection: “What is Peace”
Sunday 6 December 2015
David Root
Thessalon Pastoral Charge
What is “Peace”?
A few short weeks ago we commemorated Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918, the “war to end all wars”.
We also honour those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the war that followed, and the various wars and military conflicts that have taken place since then, up to the present day.
In fact, wars and conflicts are still occurring as we speak.
Is Peace, then, the absence of war? That is one definition, and one which is tenuous, at best. Continue reading
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