One of my earliest teachers of Jesus' nonviolence was the great Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder. I remember discovering in the fall of 1982 his seminal work, The Politics of…
My new book, Lazarus Come Forth!, is out this week. It portrays Jesus as the God of life calling humanity (in the symbol of the dead Lazarus) out of the…
Dear Archbishop Tutu, "Yu, u nobuntu!" Happy 80th Birthday! With friends around the world, I give thanks to the God of love and peace for your extraordinary life, your great…
On September 1st, Father Jose Reynel Restrepo, the 36 year old pastor of the Catholic Church in the town of Marmato in Colombia, was assassinated. He was riding his motorcycle…
Shortly before he was killed, Dr. King turned to Andrew Young and said, "I no longer believe the Good Samaritan story. I'm tired of trying to pick up those who…
Ten years ago, I was having breakfast with my parents in a Central Park hotel when news came of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. My folks left…
Nothing is harder than working for peace in a time of war. This month, as we remember the 66th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6th…
(Note: For your summer reading, I offer here for a few weeks excerpts from my autobiography, “A Persistent Peace,” just published from Loyola Press. Here, I tell about my work…
I've been traveling across the country these past five months, preaching, leading retreats, and giving lectures to all sorts of people about the life and spirituality of peace. Granted, it's…
In less than two months, the U.S. military and its media machine will tell us to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks by celebrating their warmaking efforts-and…