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50 Years Later, the Birmingham Pledge of Nonviolence Still Inspires

May 21, 2013

We remember how high school and elementary school kids marched by the thousands from the 16th Street Baptist church into Kelly Ingram Park and faced down the fire men, German Shepherds, and loaded guns. We remember Dr. King's Good Friday arrest, and the document he produced behind bars, one of the most significant in our history, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Combined with the economic boycott of downtown white businesses, these public protests-and the subsequent overcrowded jails, international TV coverage and national outrage--were too much for the white establishment, and segregation fell. Read more

John Dear’s National Catholic Reporter Columns

Civil Disobedience and Discipleship to Jesus (Feb. 2013)

"Afghanistan Journal"(December, 2012)

John Dear and John Cusack call for California to End the Death Penalty

In Afghanistan, A Call for Peace (Dec. 12th, 2012)

"Turning Towards Nonviolence: A Response to the Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater Massacre" --July 23, 2012

"Jesus Radicals" Interviews John Dear (December, 2010)

"My Last Homily in New Mexico"
(May 22, 2011)

Visit Loyola Press’s new website about John Dear’s autobiography

Revenge Is Not the Way:
On the Killing of Osama bin Laden

What Jesus Would Do: John Dear On Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience, And Doing Time (Sun Magazine, June 2009)

Feb. 1, 2011---"The Verdict: Guilty in a Las Vegas Courtroom"

"John Dear Receives the Pacem In Terris Award," The Catholic Messenger, October, 2010

"A Spirituality of Resistance," John Dear's Speech to the Sabeel Conference of Palestinians, Bethlehem, Palestine, Feb. 28, 2011.

A Peace Movement Victory in Court (September 21, 2010)

Georgetown Welcomes Colombia's Ex-Pres. Uribe (Sept. 2010)

"Obama and the Works of Death" (Feb. 2010)

The Father John Dear Haiti Fund (Jan. 2010)

Prayer Service for the International Day of Nonviolence (Oct. 2) by John Dear, commissioned by the Vatican (July, 2009)

"ROTC at Loyola Univeristy,"
September, 2011

"Remembering the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador" (Nov. 2009)

"Sermon at the Mass in Honor of Dr. Paul Farmer," (Oct. 2009)

"St. Therese's Little Way of Nonviolence," (Sept. 2009)

"Anthony de Mello's Jesuit Spirituality" (Nov. 2009)

"The Car and the Pine Cone," (Oct. 2009)

"My Night in the Las Vegas Jail" (April, 2009)

Archbishop Tutu's Nomination of John Dear for the Nobel Peace Prize (Jan., 2008)

"A Letter to Obama," Tikkun, Jan., 2009

Podcast Interview with John Dear, Sept. 2008

"America" magazine podcast interview with John Dear (Nov. 2008)

"New Dimensions" Radio Interview with John Dear (Oct. 2008)

"Interfaith Voices" Radio Interview with John Dear (Dec. 2008)

ABC News Interviews John Dear and Martin Sheen (Dec. 2008) Part I

Santa Cruz Radio Interviews John Dear (Dec. 2008)

"My Statement Before the Judge,"Jan 24, 2008

Dr. King's Last Words
April, 2008

"Peace Activist Vows to Defy Court,"
Santa Fe New Mexican, Jan. 25, 2008

Blessed Franz Jagerstatter
(Nov. 2007)

"Guilty!"
(September, 2007)

Sermon for Los Alamos Witness, Mass for Peace (Aug. 3, 2007)

Offer No Violent Resistance (The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3)

What's So Unusual About That? (The Sermon on the Mount, Part 2)

Love Your Enemies (Sermon on the Mount, Part 1)

New DVD on Hiroshima, Los Alamos, & Nuclear Disarmament

Resurrection (April, 2007)

The Vow of Nonviolence Revisited (New Year's Day, 2007)

The Trials, and Blessings, of Peacework (Jan. 2007)

Christmas Editorial for "The Santa Fe New Mexican," (12/24/06)

John Dear's book, "The Sound of Listening" republished!

Ohio Diocese Interviews John Dear, Dec. 2006

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"Jesus' Last Words to the Church"

"A Weekend with Nobel Peace Laureates"

Joan Baez, Still Singing For Peace (Oct. 2006)

Photos from the Merton-Gandhi Peace Walk

Hiroshima Day Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 5, 2006)

St. Francis and the Way of Nonviolence (May, 2006)

John Dear & Arun Gandhi on Peace Talks Radio

Report From Colombia
(April, 2006)

Colombia Diary (March, 2006)

St. Therese of Lisieux and the Little Way of Nonviolence (1873-1897)

Confessions of Crimes Against the State (Feb. 2006)

Henri Nouwen, Peacemaker

Thomas Merton and the Wisdom of Nonviolence

On Moral Leadership
(Oct. 2005)

Hiroshima Day Speech, Los Alamos, NM, Aug. 6, 2005

Concluding Prayer After the Hiroshima Day Sackcloth and Ashes Action, Aug. 6, 2005

How To Stop Terrorism (July 2005)

Join the "One" Campaign, "Make Poverty History" (June 2005)

A "Prayer of Nonviolence" (June, 2005)

A Prayer for Our Persecutors (May, 2005)

"US Catholic" magazine interviews John Dear

"America" magazine interviews John Dear (Feb. 2005)

Oscar Romero, 25 Years Later

"Remembering Hiroshima at Los Alamos"

Pilgrimage to Gandhi's India
Dec.2004-Jan.2005

John Dear's Foreword to a new Henri Nouwen Book

"Getting Into Trouble for Peace & Justice"
Call to Action Talk, Nov. 2004,
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The Vision of Peace (Nov. 2004)

John Dear's Plowshares Sentencing Statement Before the Judge, July, 1994

"Remember the Martyrs, Close the SOA"
Talk at the SOA Protest, Nov. 21, 2004 Excerpts from the forthcoming book,
"The Questions of Jesus"

Pax Christi Goes to Los Alamos

Order a CD or Audiotape of John Dear's talk "Gandhi and the Way of Nonviolence"

John Dear's Foreword to Daniel Berrigan's new book, TESTIMONY

In the Name of Peace: Speech at anti-war rally, State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico March 20, 2004

Dr. King's Gauntlet: Nonviolence or Nonexistence

The Soldiers At My Front Door
(December, 2003)

Close Los Alamos Now!

Revolutionary Nonviolence (June, 2003)

If Today You Understood the Things that Make for Peace

Human Rights and Nonviolence:
The Christian Theology and Movement for Peace

Speech at the National March Against the War, January 18, 2003. Washington, D.C.

Sheath Your Sword

The Common Ground of Interfaith Nonviolence

War With Iraq Is Not the Answer

"Love Your Neighbors, Love Your Enemies, "Speech to Call to Action, November 2, 2002

The Road to Emmaus, The Road to Hope

Action for Peace, (March, 2002)

"On the Front Line, Pursuing the God of Peace" New York Times Profile, Thursday October 4, 2001

Remember 9/11 By Speaking Out Against War

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50 Years Later, the Birmingham Pledge of Nonviolence Still Inspires