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Seeking Peace: My Journey. Atlee Beechy. (Pinchpenny Press, 2001, 206 pp.)
Atlee Beechy dedicates this book "to my wife Winifred, active partner in my peace journey for nearly 60 years." For those observing Atlee and Winifred, this book comes as a treasury of experience and reflection shared by a follower of Christ joyfully dedicated to the ways of peace and justice. Robert Kreider's (MARP member from Newton, Kansas) short review of the book on the back cover gives an excellent introduction:
"As Atlee Beechy sketches his life story, he invites us to join him in a spiritual pilgrimage -- to become peacemakers and disciples of the Prince of Peace. His story begins in 1914 in the first months of the Great War in a Mennonite home in rural Holmes County, Ohio. It leads to the campus of Goshen College and on to teaching in inner-city Columbus, Ohio, followed by Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II.
"The story unfolds into Atlee's long life as servant to the world. We see him directing relief and reconstruction work in post-war Europe and continuing to minister in a series of crisis areas: in newly independent India, the civil rights movement in the United States South, the war in Vietnam, civil war in Nigeria, violence-ridden Northern Ireland, communist-occupied Poland, impoverished East Africa, post-Mao China. His peacemaking and justice-seeking journey is projected against the tragic backdrop of the most violent century in all human history.
"This story is not a conventional autobiography. My Journey is invitational: come, join in the calling to be an agent of reconciliation."
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