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By Kimberly Burnham In Rhodian, a language spoken on Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece the word “ktílos” or “κτίλος” means peaceful, tame, docile, gentle and domesticated as if those who are peaceful must also be docile. In English, the words “tame” and “peaceful” seem pretty different but in other languages tame is a synonym for peace. And while …

s we move into a new year, let's consider what peace means to ourselves, to our friends and families, and our neighbors near and far.

May your kingdom come. May your peace reign in our hearts.

Right here in Spokane, we’ve already had incidents of racism and anti-Semitism. People are asking themselves how this happened, well, it happened because we have abandoned God and tried to fix things on our own.

When we reconcile, we reconcile to God and we move a step closer to being the people of God.

Pacifism seeks to break the cycle of violence by non-resistance to violence, believing that if enough people refuse to become violent in response to violence the world will become peaceful.