Voices
The Rev. John Dear is a priest of the Diocese of Monterey and the author of 35 books on peace and justice. He offers zoom workshops at www.beatitudescenter.org. The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
FaithShort Take
Dr. Paul Farmer was world-renowned for his medical achievements, but he also had a profound impact on friends and colleagues who saw him as a person of great holiness.
What drew you to work for Gospel-based nonviolence? Even before joining the Society of Jesus in 1982, I was influenced by the antiwar stance of two Jesuits, Richard McSorley and Daniel Berrigan—and also by the work of Horace McKenna, another Jesuit, who spent his life working on beh
Books
War is wrong Mahatma Gandhi wrote It has got to go Peace will never come until the great powers courageously decide to disarm themselves Unless the world adopts nonviolence it will spell certain suicide for humanity Gandhi insisted that though history records an endless array of wars with count