John Carmody (interviewed by Don Edwards)

John J. Carmody, neurobiologist and former U.S. Marine and holder of the Silver Star and two Purple Heart medals as a platoon captain in Viet Nam and presently Director of the Christian Center for Nonviolence. In this interview, John discusses the cultural nurturing that encouraged him to become a member of an elite warrior and also the influences that redirected him to become a committed advocate for non-violent love. How do we learn to love our enemies in a popular culture of revenge and violence? "The whole idea of Christian love is to suffer without retaliation. If we can return an act of insultwww.ecapc.org/m... with an act of kindness, then we have actually used the stimulus of evil to create an act of kindness that didn't exist before. Also appearing during the interview is a musical presentation of The Milkshake Quartet featuring Christine Mayfield. [#19]