Last Friday night, I delivered the annual Ethics Lecture at St. Francis University, a modern campus near Altoona nestled among Pennsylvania’s rolling hills. It’s an idyllic landscape for a school…
Last week, New Mexicans celebrated a great victory for justice and mercy: Governor Bill Richardson signed into law a bill abolishing the death penalty. This historic event came after years…
I had hoped to join a recent peace delegation headed late February for the maligned nation of Iran, but was unable to make it. In the end, only six of…
The saga of Jesus careens and rollicks as he faces off against sinister forces of his day. Not unlike the action thriller The Bourne Identity, but without sports cars going…
Last week, Peter DeMott, 62, a friend to peace and justice people everywhere, fell from a tree he was trimming and, under surgery, died. A Vietnam vet and a man…
Last week, at the annual “Faith Alive” retreat in Chicago, we gathered to ponder the Gospel of Jesus from the hermeneutic of nonviolence. And many there raised familiar questions: Why…
Last week, over three hundred people from all over New Mexico gathered in Santa Fe at the Roundhouse, our gorgeous adobe capitol building. There we rallied and lobbied the legislature…
President Obama’s plans to add tens of thousands of more U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are a recipe brewing with disaster. It will bring about the death of more children, yet…
Who might be the greatest living peacemaker? I acknowledge the question is a bit impertinent. It conjures competition, while by its nature, the word “peacemaker” bespeaks humility, equality, warm humanity.…
“John Dear on Peace is not intended to capture all that John’s writings teach. This is simply an introduction to an authentic gospel approach to peace, a way of active…