Church of the Brethren

It's really important to document your beliefs.

You can't just walk in after you're drafted and say, "Oh, yesterday I joined the Church of the Brethren, so I'm a pacifist and you can't draft me." It's, it's not gonna work that way.

I've gone through this process in earlier episodes of Ecotopia Soon.

I always made sure my students had the opportunity to know about this just in case.

Their website is fgcquaker.org. And on their website, you gotta s- use the search key.

Just type in objector, and you'll find lots of very useful, practical information.

Another one is the Church of the Brethren.

Their web address is brethren.org, B-R-E-T-H-R-E-N.

Which was?

Uh, Bridgewater College of Virginia, which is a small Church of the Brethren affiliated school in the Shenandoah Valley.

Um, it is not Christian in the sense that like a Wheaton College is.

Like, you don't have mandatory chapel, um, or the, the professors do not have to sign a statement of faith.

What were the major denominations at the time?

So if you're looking at the 1920s or, you know, back in the 19th century, Floyd, the major denomination was German Baptist Brethren, now known as the Church of the Brethren.

Floyd had the highest number of Brethren churches in the country then.

And actually, we still have per county the highest number of Brethren congregations in the country still today.