By Rev. John Dear August 6, 2021 Recently, a peace activist friend told me about visiting a physical therapist to help with some issues. They got talking, one thing led…
By Rev. John Dear' “To me, nonviolence is the all-important virtue to be nourished and studied and cultivated,” Dorothy Day wrote in 1967. She regretted that she had not done…
Set Us On Fire, Holy Spirit, Pentecost Sunday Homily, May 23, 2021 by Fr. John Dear, St. Timothy’s, Morro Bay, Cal. Pentecost is such a great feast, it’s such a…
By John Dear May 9, 2021. www.wagingnonviolence.org “One is called to live nonviolently,” Daniel Berrigan once wrote, “even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not…
By John Dear and Ethan Vesely-Flad, April 7, 2021, www.wagingnonviolence.org Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice…
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons By John Dear (January 22, 2021, wagingnonviolence.org) Today is the day the United Nation’s Treaty on Nuclear Weapons goes into effect. It’s…
Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance By Rev. John Dear For the last seventeen years, my friends and I have organized a peaceful vigil for nuclear disarmament…
Keep the Good Book Closed, Trump Says. We Say, Open It and Resist! By Rev. John Dear June 5, 2020, CommonDreams.org Like everyone else, I’ve been in lockdown in my…
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Introduction to "Praise Be Peace" By John Dear Driving north along California’s Highway One from my little hermitage beside the Pacific Ocean near the village of Harmony to Big Sur…