Last week, watching President Obama at West Point, memories rushed in. I was there myself some twenty-five years ago along with a group of friends. We disrupted their open house…
It was the second of November. Five friends trudged four hours onto the nuclear weapons naval base at Kitsap-Bangor, Washington. Their destination: SWFPAC, the Strategic Weapons Facility-Pacific. They came to…
Last weekend in Adelaide, Australia, seventy of us gathered for a retreat entitled “The School of Prophets.” The idea was dreamed up by my friend Tim Deslandes as a time…
On May 9, 2007, the legendary Jesuit peacemaker Rev. Daniel Berrigan turned 86 years old. He's still at it, still speaking out against war, still holding on to the vision and wisdom…
Most people think of Jesus as the one with all the answers. John Dear's new book, "The Questions of Jesus," suggests that Jesus is instead the one with all the…
Through this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds from the early steps in his vocation, to his decision…
The Struggle for Justice Continues: Remembering the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador A Talk By John Dear, SJ St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. Sept. 29, 2009 In 1985, I…
Good evening and welcome everyone, and especially, a very happy birthday to our friend and special guest of honor, Dr. Paul Farmer. I went to college at Duke University with…
"When I sit in jail thinking of war and peace and the problem of human freedom," Dorothy Day once wrote, "of jails, drug addiction, prostitution and the apathy of great…
