Military Conscientious Objection Resources

Conscription and Selective Service

• Center on Conscience and War:
  • Counseling and Legal Support
  • Statements from Religious Organizations on Conscientious Objection
• GI Rights Hotline
• Courage to Resist
• Quaker House

Military Tax Witness

• Organizations:
  • Conscience and Peace Tax International
  • Conscience Canada
  • Netzwerk Friedenssteuer (Germany)
  • Conscience: Taxes for Peace Not War (United Kingdom)
  • National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (United States)
  • NWTRCC: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
  • NWTRCC: Contacts, Counselors, Lawyers, Alternative Funds, and Affiliate Groups
  • NWTRCC: Redirection, Alternative Funds, and Penalty Funds
  • Center on Conscience and War: Statements from Religious Organizations on Military Tax Resistance
• Stories of Resistance and Witness:
  • A Matter of Freedom, Juanita Nelson, September 1960
  • Resisting War Taxes in Southern California, Frances Schneider Liau and Cathy Deppe, January 22, 2006 (podcast)
  • NWTRCC: Give Your Taxes to the Solidarity Economy, David M. Gross, September 10, 2014
  • Disruptive Peacemaking: Living Out God’s Impossible Standard, Ethan Hughes, July 30, 2015

Military Investments

• NWTRCC: Can You Keep War Bonds Out of Your Socially-Responsible Investments?

Quaker Statements on Conscription of Tax Money

Friends Journal Articles

• How Quaker War Tax Resistance Came and Went, Twice, David M. Gross, February 1, 2016

Other Writings

• Cornell, Tom. The Future of Christian Nonviolence: Should Every Church Be a Peace Church?, June 15, 2015.
• Hornus, Jean-Michel. It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence, and the State. Trans. Alan Kreider and Oliver Coburn. (Scottdale: Herald Press, 1980).
• Kalantzis, George. Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service. (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2012).
• Kreider, Alan. The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016). Reviewed by Jamin Hübner in The Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 13:2017.
• Otto, Jennifer. Were the Early Christians Pacifists? Does It Matter?, Fall 2017.
• Sider, Ronald. The Early Church on Killing: A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012).