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The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. Walter Wink. New York:Doubleday, 1998. Helps reformulate our ancient religious concepts—such as God andSatan, angels and demons, principalities and powers—in light of what we now know.Pursuing Peace Booklet. Explains MCC’s commitment to peace; intended to stimulatethinking about peace and how it is reflected in our lives. Available from MCC in Frenchand in English.The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament. Edited by WilliardSwartley. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.Resistance and Nonresistance: The Two Legs of a Biblical Peace Stance. Tom YoderNeufeld, The Conrad Grebel Review Dec 2003.Sam Martin Went to Prison: The Story of Conscientious Objection and Canadian MilitaryService. William Janzen and Frances Greaser. Winnipeg and Hillsboro: Kindred Press,1990. A short book about the history of conscientious objection in Canada and one CO’sexperience during World War I.Second Mile: A Peace Journey for Congregations. Invites congregations and small groupsto enter a journey that will help them become active signs of Christ’s peace in a brokenworld. A study guide with 20 sessions. www.gosecondmile.org/whatis.htm.What Would You Do? A Serious Answer to a Standard Question. John Howard Yoder.Expanded edition. Herald Press, 1992. Tackles the questions most often posed to thosewho identify themselves as pacifists.Where Was God on Sept. 11? Donald B. Kraybill and Linda Gehman Peachey,Herald Press, 2002.Women Against the Good War. Rachel Waltner Goossen. University of NorthCarolina Press, 1997. This is about the U.S. and it offers women’s perspectives on war.The World at War—The Church at Peace. Jon Bonk. Winnipeg: Kindred Press, 1988.This book is designed to go back to first principles—the biblical record—to establish atheology and rationale for the role of the Christian peacemaker in the world.Videos/DVDs that can be ordered from MCCThe Pacifist Who Went to War. In 1939, as Canada joined World War II, a crisis pulledapart the Mennonite communities of southern MB. Young Mennonite men were forced todecide—in the face of 400 years of pacifist tradition—should they now go to war?Brothers Ted and John Friesen reflect on their choices; Ted became a conscientious objector,while John went into military service. Features interviews with Mennonite authorRudy Wiebe, conscientious objectors, war veterans and a new generation of CanadianMennonites.Different Path, The Mennonite Conscientious Objectors in World War II. Stories ofMennonite and Brethren in Christ people in both World War I and World War II whodeclared that though they would do anything to serve humanity, they would not take ahuman life. Historian and political scientist Bill Janzen places their stories within the 500-year peacemaking history of Anabaptism.34