(I first met my friend Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson in the L.A. Jail in January, 1990 after protesting US military aid to El Salvador. In 1998, he hired…
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…
By John Dear Last summer, after Congressman John Lewis died, I posted a photo on social media of me and John from a memorable afternoon we spent together in his…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
Los Alamos sits above the second poorest county in the U.S. and is located in New Mexico, one of the poorest states in the country. The land was originally stolen…
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…