Paul Farmer: the Saint with the Stethoscope

by Rev. John Dear (Celebrated Doctor and Founder of Partners In Health, which was 20,000 doctors and healthcare workers serving in the poorest countries of the world and has saved…

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“The Year of Living Nonviolently” (Feb., 2018)

The Year of Living Nonviolently By John Dear (February, 2018) Once, late at night, shortly before he died, Cesar Chavez tired to explain nonviolence to me. “Active nonviolence requires taking…

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“The Year of Nonviolence or Nonexistence,”

The Year of “Nonviolence or Non-Existence” [www.commondreams.org, Jan. 2, 2018] By John Dear It was early 1968.  Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course…

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The Three Steps of Nonviolence

For me, the great question as a Christian is: “How do we follow the nonviolent Jesus more faithfully in this culture of violence and war?” I think about this question…

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Politics of Nonviolence

What a summer! Like everyone else, I'm trying to make some sense of it, and figure out a thoughtful response. We've suffered through the mainstream media's non-stop broadcast of the…

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Christmas Celebrates Nonviolence

"And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?" That's the question which John Lennon puts to us in his famous Christmas song. In the chorus, he gets right…

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Resurrection Means Nonviolence

For me, resurrection is everything. It's the lynchpin of Christianity, the key to nonviolence, the hope we hold dear, and the possibility of a new world of peace. In other…

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