‘If all men were non-resistants, our world would indeed be a happy one.' Photo: Engraving of Adin Ballo by H. W. Smith (1896)
Peace of resistance: A Young Friend’s Thought for the Week
‘A question rang in my ears.’
by A Young Friend
26th April 2024
I recently received a message from an Israeli friend asking if I’d read the news. An unknown number of missiles were making their way from Iran to unknown targets in Israel. Without knowledge of their short- or long-term consequences, these missiles existed as a kind of Schrödinger’s cat: deadly and harmless. Mid-flight, they seemed nothing more and nothing less than polymer contaminants in the firmament; ugly and desecrating. Rough beasts slouching towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born.
