Peace churches are Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism or Biblical nonresistance. The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches—Church of the Brethren, including all daughter churches such as the Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Brethren, and Dunkard Brethren as well as Hutterian Brethren, Old Order River Brethren and Bruderhof; Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); and Mennonites, including the Amish, Beachy Amish, Old Order Mennonite, and Conservative Mennonites. This phrase has been used since the first conference of the peace churches in Kansas in 1935.