Norman Kember

Norman Kember is a Baptist with a particular concern for peacemaking. He confesses a dangerous tendency to take the Sermon on the Mount seriously when it talks about loving your enemies and so registered as a conscientious objector to National Service in 1952. While working as a medical scientist he has been active in the Christian Peace Movement with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, The Baptist Peace Fellowship and Pax Christi. He feels that while Baptists revere Jesus and Martin Luther King they do not follow their teaching and examples of nonviolent peacemaking but are led astray by the non-biblical idea of a Just War and by patriotic militarism. These views led to a trip to Baghdad in protest to the 2003 war against Iraq and his subsequent kidnap. While acknowledging that his beliefs were compromised when rescued by the SAS he still holds that nonviolent methods are the Christian way to resolve conflicts.

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