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SATURDAY READING: Jesus, The Model Of Nonviolence, by John Dear
From Disarming the Heart Imagine the scene. Jesus is preaching in a crowded synagogue on the Sabbath. Suddenly he notices, sitting way in the back, a man with a withered hand. Jesus stops. He...
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MYSTICISM: Violence And Nonviolence, by Dorothee Soelle
From Christian Peace And Nonviolence, edited by Michael G. Long It is beyond dispute that a child, even before it begins to write the alphabet and gathers worldly knowledge, should know what the soul...
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SATURDAY READING: Blessed Are The Meek, by Thomas Merton
From Faith and Violence It would be a serious mistake to regard Christian nonviolence simply as a novel tactic which is at once efficacious and even edifying, and which enables the sensitive man to...
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PRINCE OF PEACE: Jesus And Nonviolence — A Third Way, by Walter Wink
From Peace Is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence Many of those who have committed their lives to ending injustice simply dismiss Jesus’s teachings about nonviolence out of hand as impractical idealism....
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CREDO: I Believe, by A. J. Muste
First of all, I believe in God. I think it is possible to build a reasoned argument for the existence of God, though there are serious dangers connected with the effort. It is not on that account,...
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SERMON: Pilgrimage To Nonviolence by Martin Luther King, Jr.
In my senior year in theological seminary, I engaged in the exciting reading of various theological theories. Having been raised in a rather strict fundamentalist tradition, I was occasionally shocked...
View ArticleTERRORISM: Compassion And Nonviolence From New York To Afghanistan by John Dear
From Christian Peace and Nonviolence Reflections after September 11th Like thousands of other New Yorkers, I started volunteering immediately after the World Trade Center disaster. Within a few days,...
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