“For Us, There’s Only the Trying:”:John Dear Talks Nonviolence with Legendary Singer Joan BaezLegendary singer and activist Joan Baez recently retired for touring but continues to speak out for justice,…
A few years ago, three French peace activists met with Pope Francis and asked him for advice. “Start a revolution,” he said. “Shake things up! The world is deaf. You…
Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki—“Mother of the Spirituality of Nonviolence” By Fr. John Dear (Jan. 2023) The Benedictine Sisters of Erie gave Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki a beautiful send off this…
Unveiling Jesus: The Revelation of God’s Reign of Peace Through Power of Creative Nonviolence By Rev. John Dear (This article was featured in the theology journal ONEING, published May, 2022, by Fr.…
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…
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…