By Cornelius Raff, Associate and BVS volunteer at the Office of Peacebuilding and Policy You don’t have to be very interested or invested in politics to come across phrases like “common sense bill” or hear an elected official say “it’s common sense that this policy will help the American people in this or that way”,
Volunteers working to protect a community in West Virginia from excessive clear-cutting recently found champion trees.
By Chidinma Chidoka, Fellow, Office of Peacebuilding and Policy The Office of Peacebuilding and Policy of the Church of the Brethren riding on the mandates given by the 1918 and 1970 statements on War, the 1978 statement on violence and use of firearms, the 1982 call to halt the nuclear arms race, the 1982 reaffirmation of opposition to war and the 2013 Resolution against drone