Practicing Non-Violence in Aikido
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Growing up in the 1970s, and attending a Jesuit high school and university, I heard a lot of talk about “practicing” non-violence. This was the era of the anti-war priests Dan and Phillip Berrigan… of Catholic Worker protests… of James Douglass (author of The Non-Violent Cross) and his wife Shelly. Everyone was a pacifist, everyone […]