When my mind turns on Israel and Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza, the hatred and the bullets, the dead children—and now the assault on the Peace Flottilla—I can’t quite…

Mahatma Gandhi proclaimed a half-century ago: “Nonviolence is the greatest and most active force in the world.” It’s a proposition that stirs me whenever I return to it. Because with…

“The way of Jesus and the way of the Bomb are absolutely, metaphysically incompatible,” Daniel Berrigan wrote twenty five years ago in Sorrow Built a Bridge. “That statement might seem,…

There is no reason to continue this senseless war in Afghanistan; we should end it immediately. That's what many people across the country are now saying. There are only 100…

They say the peace movement is dead. And hard to argue when so few speak out against our two wars, and when so many peace organizations are cutting back, laying…

I’m in New York City this week, attending some of the peace events around the opening of the U.N. NPT conference, and staying with Fr. Daniel Berrigan and the Jesuit…

Tolstoy's "Last Station" by John Dear   The best part about the recent movie "The Last Station" -- a film that covers Leo Tolstoy's turbulent last year -- is Christopher…

Here’s a scene I’ll never forget—sitting in the Edenton County Jail with my comrade-in-dissent Philip Berrigan, both of us on ice until the trial for our Plowshares disarmament action, looking…

It was Holy Week, and we walked for miles through the desert. We hiked along ribbons of dirt paths, over parched rocky hills near the U.S.-Mexico border. The closest U.S.…

Holy Week offers a strange image--the image of a nonviolent leader who comes to abolish war once and for all and proclaim peace to the whole world. Is this really…