Many books, pamphlets and films tell the story of nonviolent resistance. Now a new documentary has just come out, on DVD, which puts to rest the lingering question—does nonviolence really…
Lent invites us to repent of our complicity in the culture of war and injustice, and to walk the way of the cross with the nonviolent Jesus to Jerusalem to…
On Sunday, fifty of us stood an hour in the snow, rain and hail for a simple peace vigil at the Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico. There we protested…
There we were last week in Bethlehem, hundreds of us from sixteen nations praying with a hundred local Palestinian Christians, singing hymns, listening to the Sermon on the Mount, offering…
One of the inspiring Christians of the last century was Ben Salmon, the American Catholic conscientious objector to World War I. Whenever my spirits sag over the apparently dim prospects…
One day in the mid-1990s, I received a letter from Patmos, Greece. It began: “Dear John, I’ve been following you for years. No one in the world seems to work harder…
As the Holy Season of Lent begins, we put on ashes once again and repent of the mortal sins of war, greed, nuclear weapons and empire—national sins for which each…
The whole world rejoiced last Friday when President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after eighteen days of massive protest throughout Egypt. It was thrilling to see nonviolent “People Power” topple a dictatorship which…
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, October 2, 2009 is an important day for all persons in our global village but especially for those of us committed to living the…
A few weeks ago, I came across the latest issue of the alumni magazine of Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland. On the cover we see the back of a young…