(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…
Ten years ago, a Colombian woman showed up at my door asking me to join her on a trip to her country to learn about the U.S. involvement in Colombia's…
With the Bush Administration's admission of widespread surveillance upon ordinary Americans in pursuit of its empire, I thought I would save them the trouble of further harassing me and confess…
February 14, 2006, Panama City, Panama. It's 90 degrees here, hot and humid, but beautiful. We flew in low under the clouds at sunset, along the Canal, from the Atlantic…
The story goes that when the nonviolent Jesus was born into abject poverty to homeless refugees on the outskirts of a brutal empire, angels appeared in the sky to impoverished…
Recently, we marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of four North American churchwomen, killed by U.S.-trained and funded death squads in El Salvador on December 2, 1980. I remember…
[This essay was published in the fall of 2005 in a special book called “Moral Leadership,” edited by Daniel Deffenbaugh for Hastings College, Nebraska. For info, see: www.hastings.edu] One reason…
[This essay is part of the forthcoming collection, "Creative Minister," celebrating the life and work of the popular spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen. It will be published in 2006 by Orbis…
[This essay is part of the forthcoming collection, "Creative Minister," celebrating the life and work of the popular spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen. It will be published in 2006 by Orbis…