Peter Panter
Peter grew up off the coast of British Columbia. He is a writer and an academic that takes joy in engaging widely with his community.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Peter Panter
Fighting Against Violence
By Peter Panter
February 23, 2018
"I learned my lesson on a warm September evening 10 years ago, and I hope and pray that I will never again raise my hand in anger against another being made in the image of God."
Yet I will always remember that fight, vividly, as the one time in my life that I actively chose violence, and the moment when I decided that violence was not an acceptable means to the end I wished to accomplish The Mennonites were not a perfect people, and God knows that many of my friends and family have reasons to criticize the isolationism, hypocrisy, and patriarchal values of our Mennonite ancestors, but I do believe that they were terribly and beautifully right in their deep understanding that violence, inevitably, becomes an end rather than a means It was a tradition, at my school, to hold a fight club on the first night of the annual grad retreat