Welcome again, dear friends. I’m just back this weekend from speaking in England and Scotland, and I didn’t know it, but if you asked what country is actually on the…
A few years ago my friend Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine launched the “Network of Spiritual Progressives,” a group I joined, to unite religious activists from across the spectrum…
Last September, nine of us tried to deliver a letter to Senator Pete Domenici's office, asking him to help end the immoral U.S. war and occupation of Iraq. We entered…
New Year's weekend brought three and a half feet of snow to the mesa high in the New Mexico desert where I live. So I've been sitting by a fire,…
Each year around November 16th, nearly twenty thousand people gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, outside the gates of the notorious “School of Americas.” The school has trained some 64,000 Central…
The U.S. war on Iraq goes on unabated. Ordinary people die every day by the gruesome violence provoked by our military presence. Our war over the last three years has…
The high desert of New Mexico, where I live, is one of the most beautiful places in the country, with its red mesas, fields of sagebrush, Sangre de Cristo mountains…
(John Dear's keynote address to the National Conference on the Sacred Heart, on June 26, 2005, in Waltham, Massachusetts, to the association of religious congregations connected to the Sacred Heart.)…
This essay is an excerpt from JOHN DEAR'S new book, "You Will Be My Witnesses," available from Orbis Books. Francis came alive to me in 1995 when I attended a…