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  • The Beatitudes of Peace

    Meditations on the Beatitudes, Peacemaking & the Spiritual Life

    by John Dear ...
    With a foreword by Nobel Winner Mairead Corrigan MaguireThe Beatitudes are “the hope and prayer and vision of Jesus…the blueprint for Christian discipleship, the job description of every Christian,” says John Dear. These stirring meditations are more than mere reflections. They are a call to action, a summons to take up the Beatitudes as a daily handbook for life, written by an internationally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Waging Peace

    Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

    David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in ... Read more

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  • Praise Be Peace

    Psalms of Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of War and Climate Change

    by John Dear ...
    In a violent world, and amid the reality of catastrophic climate change, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where can we turn to find the courage and inspiration, we need to stay hopeful and to keep working for peace? International peace activist Fr. John Dear has always found support and comfort in the psalms. In this profound and deeply reflective book he helps us see that "if we read the psalms ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest

    Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat

    In the fall of 1964, Trappist monk Thomas Merton prepared to host an unprecedented gathering of peace activists. "About all we have is a great need for roots," he observed, "but to know this is already something." His remark anticipated their agenda--a search for spiritual roots to nurture sound motives for "protest." This event's originality lay in the varied religious commitments present. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trouble with Our State

    "The trouble with our state," Daniel Berrigan writes in his great poem, "was not civil disobedience, which in any case was hesitant and rare. . . . The trouble with our state--our state of soul, our state of siege, was civil obedience." This poem, like the many others gathered here together by Daniel Berrigan's friend and editor, Rev. John Dear, continues his famous critique of the American war ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience

    by John Dear ...
    "Firm footing for a life of holy trouble." - Shane ClaiborneThe Christian faith has a rich tradition of civil disobedience.Old Testament stories of noncooperation with evil, or prophets standing up to Kings at great cost. Jesus, the nonviolent revolutionary, peacemaker, risk-taker. The early Christian communities, repeatedly imprisoned for speaking truth to power-like Dorothy Day or Martin Luther ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Ministry of Risk

    Writings on Peace and Nonviolence

    Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan’s nonviolent resistance to war and empireFrom the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America’s military-focused culture, Berrigan took an unyielding stance against societal evils—war, systemic racism, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Persistent Peace

    All of us say we want peace, but only a few are willing to prove it.John Dear, SJ, has been arrested more than seventy-five times. He has spent more than a year of his life in jail. He has been mocked by an armed and angry U.S. National Guard battalion standing outside the doors to his New Mexico parish. All this because he so fervently believes in peace.A Persistent Peace, John Dear's ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Questions of Jesus

    Challenging Ourselves to Discover Life's Great Answers

    by John Dear ...
    This illuminating examination of the Gospels reveals how the questions Jesus asks of his followers lead the way to a deeper understanding of the meaning of life and the mystery of God.The Gospels are filled with stories, parables, miracles, commandments, and dramatic incidents that trace Jesus’ life and recount his teachings. A close reading of the Gospels reveals, however, that they are also ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Living Peace

    A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action

    by John Dear ...
    "To take care of each other should be our primary concern in this 21st century and Father Dear is steady on this course."--Thich Nhat HanhFor John Dear, a Jesuit priest and respected leader of the ecumenical peace movement, the spiritual life is a combination of contemplation and action, of maintaining inner peace and projecting that peace into the greater world. It is the spirituality exemplified ... Read more

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  • Walking the Way

    Following Jesus on the Lenten Journey of Gospel Nonviolence to the Cross and Resurrection

    by John Dear ...
    "Our world of war, poverty, corporate greed, racism, sexism, nuclear weapons, and catastrophic climate change demonstrates the total failure of violence," says John Dear. The internationally known peace activist and Nobel Prize nominee has always offered a single answer: Jesus. Now he invites us to follow the nonviolent Jesus through the holy season of Lent, beginning with Jesus' journey to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Walking the Way: Following Jesus on the Lenten Journey of Gospel Nonviolence to the Cross and Resurrection

    by John Dear ...
    "Our world of war, poverty, corporate greed, racism, sexism, nuclear weapons, and catastrophic climate change demonstrates the total failure of violence," says John Dear. The internationally known peace activist and Nobel Prize nominee has always offered a single answer: Jesus. Now he invites us to follow the nonviolent Jesus through the holy season of Lent, beginning with Jesus' journey to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD