Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Christian college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I…
“I have often been threatened with death,” Archbishop Oscar Romero told a Guatemalan reporter two weeks before his assassination on March 24, 1980. “If they kill me, I shall arise…
John Dear's Review of the new book, "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Leader," By Richard Deats, published by New City Press (Hyde Park, NY, 2005, paperback, 136 pp, $12.95). I have wanted…
"America" magazine associate editor George Anderson, S.J., interviewed John Dear in New York city on December 20, 2004, and later in January 2005. This interview is to be published in…
God of Nonviolence, Thank you for the gift of your love and your peace. Give me the grace to live the life of Gospel nonviolence that I might be a…
(John Dear was interviewed by the editors of "U.S. Catholic" magazine in Chicago in early November, 2004. This interview will appear in the May 2005 issue of "U.S. Catholic.") *…
This year, to mark the 59th anniversary of the horrific U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Pax Christi New Mexico invites you to come to New Mexico to join us for…
Nestled in the beautiful desert hills near Santa Fe , New Mexico is the mother of all weapons of mass destruction, the birthplace of the bomb-- Los Alamos . Hundreds…
"I see no poverty in the world of tomorrow--no wars, no revolutions, no bloodshed. And in that world, there will be a faith in God greater and deeper than ever…
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…