The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast:
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast:
Podcast Description
🌎 What if the key to a more peaceful world is following the path of the nonviolent Jesus? Join Fr. John Dear—priest, author, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee—for The Nonviolent Jesus, a weekly 30-minute podcast that dares to reclaim the radical, active nonviolence of Jesus. Rooted in the wisdom of Gandhi and Dr. King, this journey isn’t just about changing the world—it’s about transforming ourselves. 💙🎙️ Featuring thought-provoking conversations with visionary leaders like Martin Sheen, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King III, Sister Helen Prejean, Rev. Richard Rohr, Dolores Huerta, Shane Claiborne, and more, we’ll explore how we can:💠 Embody nonviolence—toward ourselves, others, and our communities 🤝💠 Heal from the culture of violence—from war and racism to poverty and environmental destruction 🌱💠 Live with courage, compassion, and universal love ❤️Together, we’ll uncover how Jesus' way of nonviolence can reshape our lives and awaken a more just, peaceful world.🔥 Ready to be part of the movement? 👉Subscribe now and follow The Nonviolent Jesus !
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The podcast centers on themes of active nonviolence, social justice, and spirituality, delving into topics such as the Beatitudes, the legacy of civil rights leaders, and the call to compassionate activism. Episodes explore practical applications of peace in modern society, with discussions on significant issues ranging from poverty and racism to the death penalty. Notable episodes include in-depth analyses of Jesus' radical message and interviews with influential figures like Sister Helen Prejean and Dr. Bernard Lafayette.
🌎 What if the key to a more peaceful world is following the path of the nonviolent Jesus?
🎙️ Featuring thought-provoking conversations with visionary leaders like Martin Sheen, Bryan Stevenson, Kathy Kelly, Bill McKibben, Cornel West, Sister Helen Prejean, Rev. Richard Rohr, Shane Claiborne, and more!
Join Fr. John Dear—priest, author, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee—for The Nonviolent Jesus, a weekly 30-minute podcast that dares to reclaim the radical, active nonviolence of Jesus. Rooted in the wisdom of Gandhi and Dr. King, this journey isn’t just about changing the world—it’s about transforming ourselves. 💙 we’ll explore how we can:
💠 Embody nonviolence—toward ourselves, others, and our communities 🤝
💠 Heal from the culture of violence—from war and racism to poverty and environmental destruction 🌱
💠 Live with courage, compassion, and universal love ❤️
Together, we’ll uncover how Jesus’ way of nonviolence can reshape our lives and awaken a more just, peaceful world.
🔥 Ready to be part of the movement?
👉Subscribe now and follow The Nonviolent Jesus !
This week I speak with Art Laffin, long-time peace activist, author, and Catholic Worker.
Art was a member of the Covenant Peace community in Connecticut in the 1970s, then joined the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in Washington, D.C. in the late 1970s, where he still lives with his wife and son. He has been active in the faith-based nonviolent movements for peace, social justice, disarmament, and human rights.
Find out why he has been imprisoned for nonviolent actions with the plowshares movement. He is also the author of a new edition of The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age, co-editor of Swords into Plowshares, and co-editor of Arise and Witness: Poems by Anne Montgomery, About Faith, Prison, War Zones, and Nonviolent Resistance.
He tshares his experiences with his mentors and friends, Fr. Richard McSorley, Dan and Phil Berrigan and Henri Nouwen, and what they taught him how “everything makes a difference”.
He speaks about the Plowshares movement, his actions and time in prison, as well as keeping a peace vigil every Monday morning at the Pentagon—since 1990!
” People ask, ‘What difference does it make?'”
We ask, “What happens if we’re not there?”
Hear how the words of Jesus have inspired Art to renounce all forms of violence and killing, and how he has responded in his life as an activist and Catholic Worker.
Speaking about the upcoming 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th, he also tells us why we need to heed the cry of the Hibakusha:
“Humanity and weapons cannot co-exist. We need to heed Jesus’ gospel call to nonviolence. We need to hear Dr. King’s message just before he was killed: “The choice is no longer violence or nonviolence; it’s nonviolence or non-existence.”
What is the solution to standing for life where it is threatened and has activist and founder of the Catholic Worker Dorothy Day influenced him?
How does Jesus open up a new nonviolent history so we don’t lose heart?
Listen in to Art Laffin, take heart, and be encouraged to be a doer of the Word, and to carry on the long haul of Gospel nonviolence and universal love!
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