Back in 1933, when Japan invaded Manchuria and many persons were rattling their sabers in a call for war, H. Richard Niebuhr wrote an article in The Christian Century entitled "On the Grace of Doing Nothing." Richard Niebuhr was not a pacifist. He did support the US involvement in World War II when it finally came. And, he received a furious rebuttal by his brother, Reinhold Niebuhr in the next ed...
