What Would You Do?: A Serious Answer to a Standard Question

NOTE: In troubling contrast to his work, we know that John Howard Yoder’s life was seriously flawed by acts of sexual violence against many women. Although his writings on nonviolence continue to be influential, we acknowledge that Yoder was, ironically and tragically, perpetuating violence, over many decades, in his private life. No reading or interpretation of Yoder can be done faithfully without understanding the extensive harmful legacy he has also left.

For more information, see Rachel Waltner Goossen’s research, published in Mennonite Quarterly Review, entitled “Defanging the Beast”.

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As a peace-loving Christian, what would you do if someone attacked your grandmother, wife, daughter, or grandfather, husband, son? Exploration of the question often hypothetically raised of pacifists. Includes responses from Joan Baez, Tom Skinner, Leo Tolstoy, and others.

Also available in Korean.