ABSTRACT
The origins of the Freeze Campaign itself illustrate the centrality of religious believers to these efforts. Long before the drafting of the 'Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race' the precedents for what became the Freeze were already deeply rooted in the faith community. The special nuclear weapons edition of the magazine was only the opening foray in what became a full-scale national campaign organized by Sojourners. Following the national conference at Georgetown, education and mobilization began in every constituency represented from labor unions to business people, and from teachers to members of Congress, and the religious community was at the forefront of much of that work. The groups-which included Sojourners, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), Pax Christi, World Peacemakers, and New Call to Peacemaking, and later the Southern Christian Leadership Conference-stressed the importance, not only of political organizing on behalf of the moratorium, but also of grounding the work on moral and religious foundations.
