Tom Fox was a Quaker peace activist and Christian Peace Teams member who was held hostage and executed by a jihadist group during a CPT delegation to Iraq.
Holmes Rolston III (b. 1932)
Holmes Rolston III is an internationally acclaimed philosopher whose main body of work has been connecting the values of religion with those of science.
Laura Hobgood-Oster
Scholar Laura Hobgood-Oster has become a major resource for religious leaders and scholars studying the relationship between animals and faith.
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and al-Malik al-Kamil (1180-1238)
Amid the horrors of the Crusades, Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil dared to cross battle lines. After a week of talks, they parted as friends.
A.J. Muste (1885-1967)
A.J. Muste was pastor active in the pacifist, labor, anti-war and civil rights movements. He devoted his entire life to the fight for peace and equality.
Muriel Lester (1885-1968)
Muriel Lester was an English Christian pacifist who fought to help impoverished communities. She became a member of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and launched the movement that became the Save the Children Fund.
Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929)
Victor Luitpold Berger was a nonviolent Socialist activist who was elected into Congress in 1910. He was indicted under the Espionage Act for anti-militaristic views. The case against him was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court.
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze was a German pastor and advocate for peace during both World Wars. During WWII he was exiled from Germany by the Nazis for helping Jewish refugees.
Wilfred Owen
Wildred Owen is considered by many to be the greatest poet coming out of WWI. As a soldier he wrote about the horrors and realities of trench warfare.
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was a leading British WWI poet who used stark realism to describe the horror and misery of the war. He also greatly influenced the writings of Wilfred Owen.