John Dear

Dear John ( born August 13, 1959 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States) is an American priest of the Catholic Jesuit order, high school teacher, peace activist and author nonviolence.

Life

Dear John uses the methods of civil disobedience as a way to protest against war and violence. Following his protests, he was arrested more than 75 times; his longest prison term amounted to eight months in prison plus nine months of house arrest. This he received for his involvement in a ploughshare - motion disarmament. Subsequently Dear lost his voting rights in the United States, the free right to travel and learn special investigations at airports.

Awards

Writings

  • Christianity and Vegetarianism: Pursuing the Nonviolence of Jesus
  • A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World, 2008
  • Disarming the Heart: Toward a Vow of Nonviolence
  • Jean Donovan and the Call to Discipleship
  • Jesus the Rebel: Bearer of God 's Peace and Justice
  • Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action
  • Mary of Nazareth: Prophet of Peace
  • Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings
  • Oscar Romero and the nonviolent struggle for justice
  • Our God Is non- violent: Witnesses in the Struggle for Peace and Justice
  • Peace Behind Bars: A Journal from Jail
  • Put Down Your Sword
  • Seeds of Non -violence
  • The God of Peace: Toward a Theology of Nonviolence
  • The Questions of Jesus: Challenging Ourselves to Discover Life 's Great Answers
  • The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience
  • The Sound of Listening: A Retreat Journal from Thomas Merton 's Hermitage
  • Transfiguration: A Meditation on Transforming Ourselves and Our World
  • You Will Be My Witnesses
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