Robert Pickus -- the man who changed lives. Fifty years ago “Pick,” as everyone calls him, dedicated his life to building “a peace effort worthy of the name,” and in the mid 1980s recruited a young Brian O'Connell to work for his improbably named World Without War Council. As we researched the evangelical world's views on war and peace, he (and another mentor, George Weigel) put me on the way to making many contributions in the National Association of Evangelicals and their parent body, World Evanglelical Alliance. During the so-called “peace movements” of the time, Pick defended as Richard John Neuhaus once said, "the honorable tradition of a liberal realism that challenges both the cynic and the utopian."
I hope you are well, Pick, my friend. You are fondly remembered.
