Articles, Speeches, and Letters to Newspaper Editors
[Each of the links below was written by a member of the Circleville Friends Worship Group. These writings express the spiritual leading and concerns of their individual authors and are not intended to represent the views of the Circleville Friends Worship Group as a whole or of any other Quaker community.]
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2005 - 2006
Read "Buck Thompson" -- by Brad Cotton
Read "The Cost of War" -- March 10, 2006 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Thanks for Supporting Our Vigil -- September 2005 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Dick Cheney's Remorse" -- Columbus Dispatch -- February 17, 2006 -- by Brad Cotton
2007
Read "We Became a Mob" -- January 18, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Lobbying Reform Act" -- February 11, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Letter From a Military Chaplain" - Text of a letter read by Brad Cotton
at the Columbus Statehouse exhibit of Eyes Wide Open
Read "Something that Matters" -- June 21, 2007 -- by Lainey Ebright
Read "Like Toys a Rich Kid Got for Christmas" -- June 25, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Whose War Was He Fighting?" -- July 17, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Hate Crimes Legislation" -- August 7, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Reflections on 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' " - September 15, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Confusion, Concern, and Commitment" - October 27, 2007 - by Tom Kirdas
Read "Huck Finn" -- Oct. 17, 2007 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Universal Health Care" Dec. 12, 2007 - by Brad Cotton
2008
Read "Who Was Shot at Kent State?" -- May 12, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Torture Is a Moral Issue" -- June 18, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "All Quiet on the Iraqi Front" -- August 6, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Is Abortion the Only Faith Issue?" -- August 22, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Family Values and Community Organizers" -- September 8, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Who Is Us?" -- September 16, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "War Is Not the Answer"-- October 30, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Never Forget" -- December 8, 2008 -- by Brad Cotton
2009
Read "The Titanic and the U.S. Healthcare Crisis" -- January 8, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Why Bail Out the Insurance Companies?" -- January , 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Healthcare Not Warfare" -- March 2009 Friends Journal -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Honoring Norman Morrison" -- March 16, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Free-Market Healthcare Does Not Work" -- March 31, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Health Care Reform that is Proven" -- April 6, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Remembering May 4th" -- May 4, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Gettysburg, Memory, and Memorial Day" -- May 22, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Faith and Health Care Reform" -- June 4, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read "Beyond All Understanding" an article by Brad Cotton published in the July 2009 Friends Journal
Read "A Heartbreaking Up-date" -- August 1, 2009 -- by Tom Kirdas
Read "Suffering" -- September 11, 2009 -- by Tom Kirdas
Read "Health Care Reform" -- September 24, 2009 -- by Charlotte Owens
Read "Eyes Wide Open" -- September 21, 2009 -- by Brad Cotton
Read The Five People You Meet in Heaven -- by Brad Cotton
Read Reverend Bachman's Brother Deserved Better -- by Brad Cotton
Read Jesus and the Health Insurers -- by Brad Cotton
Read Jubilee Economics -- by Brad Cotton
2010