Once more we Americans gather for worship amidst the imminent danger of war. This week our government officials told us to gather supplies of food and water, make emergency communication plans with our families, and buy duct tape. Many of our sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters have been deployed to military alert positions. Today we wait for yet another United Nations resolution.

In one sense, there is nothing new about wars and rumors of wars. In my lifetime alone, there have been over a half million Americans killed and nearly another million wounded on the battlefields of international conflict. Everybody seems to have an opinion now as they have in the past. Editorialists fill our newspapers and sound off on television. Demonstrators are marching. Religious leaders, incl…