Following Jesus

Turn the Other Cheek

September 7, 2021 by Kirk Wareham

In a warrior society, it takes real courage to refuse to kill. —Phil Berrigan, peace activist and priest. My father, Dick Wareham, was raised to be a peacemaker. Growing up in the Church of the Brethren in the 1930s, he learned about turning the other cheek from his father. By the time he became eligible for the military draft, his early lessons in peacemaking and...