2024 Speaking Tour

Host Fr. John Dear on his 2024 Speaking Tour for his Forthcoming Orbis Book: “’The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence.” For more info, click here

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November 2, 2026 – This Week’s Episode

Episode #97, John Dear Speaks with Ken Butigan on Pope Leo’s Call for an “Unarmed and Disarming Peace”

On today’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear reflects with organizer, activist, author and professor, Ken Butigan, who has been tracking every speech on peace and nonviolence under Pope Francis and now Pope Leo, and he met both of them. If you go to paceebene.org/pope-leo-statements, you’ll find a dozen more links that open up to hundreds of pages of messages by the last two popes on peace and nonviolence. If you look up just Pope Leo’s speeches over the last year and a half, since May 2025, you will be amazed at the hundreds of times he has called for peace, a message ignored by the mainstream US media. John invited Ken back to the podcast to tell us about it.
 
Pope Leo has been calling us over and over and over again to be unarmed and disarming,” Ken says. “He calls us to create ‘a civilization of love by building houses of peace.’ He wants the church to take nonviolence seriously and put it into practice.”
 
“Just listen to his Easter Message: ‘The peace of the risen Jesus is unarmed. Easter is the victory of nonviolence and peacemakers. May every person make peace his or her life’s cause.’” Listen in and be inspired!

Next week…

The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes John Ashworth! For more information, visit here.

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October 26, 2026 – This Week’s Episode

Episode #96, John Dear with Melissa Parke, Exec. Dir. of the Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

On today’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear speaks with Melisssa Parke, executive director of the Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
 
Melissa Parke is the former Minister for International Development for Australia, where she’s from, and was a member of the Australian Parliament from 2007 to 2016. Prior to being elected to Parliament, she worked as an international lawyer with the United Nations in Kosovo, Gaza, New York and Lebanon from 1999 to 2007.
 
“ICAN, the Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (www.icanw.org)  was started in Melbourne by a group of friends who sat around a small kitchen table to discuss what they could do to abolish nuclear weapons,” she says. “Today, through the work of ICAN, the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has 101 nation signers. They are saying, ‘We do not accept that nuclear weapons are a legitimate security measure.’ We are working to stigmatize nuclear weapons until they are abolished.
 
“Most of the world’s problems today stem from humanity’s disconnection from nature and each other. We forget that we are all connected. What we do to each other and the planet we ultimately do to ourselves. Action is the antidote to a sense of helplessness. We all have a right to demand answers from our governments. We can each ask our local, city and state governments to join the Ban Treaty.” Listen in and be inspired!

Next week…

The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Ken Butigan! For more information, visit here.

John Dear’s new book now available!

“The Gospel of Peace:
Reading Matthew, Mark & Luke
from the Perspective of Nonviolence”

For info, click here
 
To order, call Orbis Books at 1-800-258-5838
 

To invite John Dear to speak in your city, write to: john@beatitudescenter.org 

National Catholic Reporter Review of “The Gospel of Peace,” click here
 
To watch Fr. John’s interview with Dean Young of Grace Cathedral about the book, click here
 
To watch Fr. John’s sermon at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, on Jan. 21, 2024, (at the 30 minute mark) click here
 
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast, a free weekly podcast with John Dear
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John Dear’s New Book

Universal Love:
Surrendering to the God of Peace

By John Dear

For more information, click here
 
Available from www.orbisbooks.com or call 1-800-258-5838, or Amazon.com 
 
“One of the people I respect most on this earth and whose winsome company I enjoy most is Fr. John Dear. In this short, valuable, and practical book, John shares his conversations with a young spiritual seeker named Will who came to him seeking spiritual guidance. As I read each chapter, I felt like I was meeting with John for coffee, sharing my struggles, and receiving his wisdom and encouragement.
This book is a treasure.”
 
— Brian McLaren, author of Faith After Doubt and The Last Voyage

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Recent Articles

“John Dear’s Keynote Talk at the Rome, Italy conference on Pope’s Leo’s call for an Unarmed and Disarming Peace,” Sept. 10, 2026

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John Dear Talks Nonviolence with Joan Baez: A Conversation

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My Long Lost Conversation with John Lewis

Last summer, after Congressman John Lewis died, I posted a photo on social media of me and John from a memorable afternoon we spent together in his congressional office. It was 26 years ago. We had talked for a while, and then filmed a formal conversation on nonviolence.

Needless to say, it was one of the greatest days of my exciting life.

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Recent News

“Nonviolence,” a new 147 page special edition
of Richard Rohr’s journal Oneing, now available from www.cac.org

John Dear on “Democracy Now” talking about Thich Nhat Hanh and Archbishop Tutu 

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“Jesus was totally nonviolent and calls us to practice and teach Gospel nonviolence and welcome God’s reign of peace and nonviolence, which means from now on, we work for the abolition of war, poverty, racism, gun violence, the death penalty, nuclear weapons, environmental destruction, and all violence.” – Fr. John Dear

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