{"id":40417,"date":"2018-11-12T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=40417"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:10:29","slug":"emu-archivist-reflects-on-voices-of-peace-exhibit-and-the-sacrifice-of-conscientious-objectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/emu-archivist-reflects-on-voices-of-peace-exhibit-and-the-sacrifice-of-conscientious-objectors\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU archivist reflects on &#8216;Voices of Peace&#8217; exhibit and the sacrifice of conscientious objectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University archivist Simone Horst reviews\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <a href=\"https:\/\/kauffman.bethelks.edu\/Traveling%20Exhibits\/Voices-of-Conscience\/index.html\">\u201cVoices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War\u201d exhibit<\/a>, which closes Nov. 17 at the Sadie Hartzler Library<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>It has been forty-five years since the elimination of the draft in the United States. More than two generations of Mennonite men and women have grown up without the threat of having their convictions put through the test through conscription and conscientious objection. Lloy Kniss, a WWI-era CO, stated in his 1971 pamphlet \u201cI Couldn\u2019t Fight: the Story of a CO in World War I\u201d that he \u201cbelieve[s] our church needs to learn again to suffer for the faith when it becomes necessary.\u201d<sup id=\"fnref-5207-1\"><\/sup>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Though written in 1971, these are timely words for those of us in the Mennonite church today who have grown accustomed to the comfort and privilege gained through assimilation and prosperity these past forty years. Remembering the sacrifice of those in the past, as well as critically examining our complicity in our country\u2019s glorification of war and the military industrial complex, is important to deepen the understanding of Anabaptist pacifism, its roots, and its implications today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptisthistorians.org\/\">Read more of her review at the Anabaptist Historians website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developed by the Kauffman Museum in North Newton, Kansas, the exhibit is on a seven-states tour. Several guest speakers provided lectures during its six-week stay at the Sadie Hartzler Library:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[CANCELLED] Anne Yoder,\u00a0archivist\u00a0at Swarthmore College\u2019s Peace Collection, speaks at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15,\u00a0 in Martin Chapel about WWI conscientious objectors in their own words. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/02\/new-website-curated-by-swarthmore-archivist-anne-yoder-81-features-world-war-i-conscientious-objectors\/\">Read about Anne&#8217;s digital collections work in an EMU news article.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phil Kniss &#8217;82, MDiv &#8217;95,\u00a0senior pastor at Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, shared the<\/span> story of his grandfather Lloy Kniss, who was drafted and ordered to train at Camp Greenleaf in Georgia.<\/li>\n<li>Duane Stoltzfus, professor of communication at Goshen College and author of\u00a0<i>Pacifists in Chains: The persecution of Hutterites during the Great War\u00a0<\/i>(Johns Hopkins, 2013), spoke about four Hutterites imprisoned at Alcatraz&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University archivist Simone Horst reviews\u00a0the \u201cVoices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War\u201d exhibit, which closes Nov. 17 at the Sadie Hartzler Library.\u00a0 It has been forty-five <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/emu-archivist-reflects-on-voices-of-peace-exhibit-and-the-sacrifice-of-conscientious-objectors\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU archivist reflects on &#8216;Voices of Peace&#8217; 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