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.
Was Jesus nonviolent?
🎙️ This Monday weekly podcast features thought-provoking, inspiring conversations with some of the greatest visionary leaders in peace and nonviolence in modern history like Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, Gandhi), Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy) , Cornel West (Race Matters), Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) , Sr. Joan Chittister, John Fugelsang (Separation of Church and Hate), Rev. Richard Rohr (The Universal Christ), Shane Claiborne (Red Letter Christians), and many, many more!
Join Fr. John Dear—priest, author, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee—on 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, Fr. John Dear has been arrested and jailed over 80 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war and nuclear weapons in the tradition of Gandhi and Dr. King.
This journey isn’t just about changing the world—it’s about being creative, nonviolent activists and 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, authoritarianism and genocide, 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.
👉Subscribe now to The Nonviolent Jesus – change yourself, change the world.
“Pope Leo is demythologizing war; he’s saying, ‘It’s over.”—says Ken Butigan
On today’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” I reflect with Ken Butigan on Pope Leo’s Call for an ‘Unarmed and Disarming Peace’.
It’s a great blessing to welcome back to the podcast my friend Ken Butigan, author, organizer, activist, speaker, nonviolence trainer, and leader of Pace e Bene and the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence. Ken recently retired from DePaul University in Chicago where he taught for many years. If you look up and listen to his podcast from a year ago, you’ll hear his amazing stories about leading the Pledge of Resistance in the 1980s, Pace E Bene and Campaign Nonviolence and other campaigns addressing homelessness, nuclear weapons, freedom for East Timor, and the US wars in Iraq.
In the last ten years, he has been a leader with Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and working with the Vatican to promote Gospel nonviolence.
Last month we were in Rome together for the latest conference on Pope Leo’s call for an unarmed and disarming peace, where he and Marie Dennis and others launched the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence.
Ken Butigan has been tracking every speech on peace and nonviolence under Pope Francis and now Pope Leo, and he met both of them. If you go to paceebene.org/pope-leo-statements, you’ll find a dozen more links that open up to hundreds of pages of messages by the last two popes on peace and nonviolence.
If you look up just Pope Leo’s speeches over the last year and a half, since May 2025, you will be amazed at the hundreds of times he has called for peace, a message ignored by the mainstream US media. I’ve been stunned by the material that Ken put together, so I invited him back to the podcast to tell us about it.
You can find info on the conference, including my talk, at paxchristiusa.org and paxchristi.net.
“Pope Leo has been calling us over and over and over again to be unarmed and disarming,” Ken says.
“He calls us to create ‘a civilization of love by building houses of peace.’ He wants the church to take nonviolence seriously and put it into practice.” Just listen to his Easter Message: “’The peace of the risen Jesus is unarmed. Easter is the victory of nonviolence and peacemakers. May every person make peace his or her life’s cause’.”
Listen in and be inspired!
🌻 John
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