Tag: Peace
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August 3, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Each quarter, Harrison Middleton University hosts a Quarterly Discussion. This discussion is open to students and non-students alike. They focus on a short text which everyone reads prior to the discussion. I thoroughly enjoy these because they give me a chance to break …
January 13, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. U2 performing MLK Common, “A Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most vocal and prolific proponents of a path to peace through nonviolence. He fought with words and love and forgiveness, instead of fear and anger. He responded to death …
January 15, 2016 “The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled;/ Those days, all innocent of scathing war,/ When all the fair Existences of heaven/ Came open-eyed to guess what we would speak: – / That was before our brows were taught to frown,/ Before our lips knew else but solemn sounds;/ That …
