John Dear

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with a Byzantine-Melkite priest and Christian nonviolence teacher.

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear welcomes Art Laffin, longtime peace activist, author and Catholic Worker: "War has become normalized, so we have to stand for life wherever it is threatened."

In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with Cornel West on the challenges of love and nonviolence.

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear talks to Michael Nagler, co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at UC Berkeley, and the Metta Center for Nonviolence.

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks to activist Frida Berrigan, co-founder of Witness Against Torture, a campaign calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay detention center.

On this week's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with world-renowned theologian, Episcopal priest and an activist for justice and creation, Matthew Fox.

 In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear talks about Jesus' specific commandment on nonviolent resistance in the Sermon on the Mount. 

In this week's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Lexington Bishop John Stowe, the president of Pax Christi, the national Catholic peace movement.

In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Maria Stephan, a teacher, advocate and organizer who's dedicated her life to the proposition that ordinary people, when organized and inspired, can bring about extraordinary change. 

In this week's episode, environmental activist Bill McKibben speaks to John Dear about how to respond to catastrophic climate change with grassroots movements.

In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Kazu Haga shares the six principles of Kingian nonviolence and how to build the beloved community that Martin Luther King envisioned. 

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear reflects on Pope Francis as the most radical, most progressive, most nonviolent, most prophetic, most peace-activist-oriented pope in history.

Listen: In this week's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear interviews a granddaughter of the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.

 "Contrary to what a lot of people see or think, there is more protest and resistance to Trump than you see or read in the mainstream media," Eric Stoner tells John Dear.

In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear talks to the founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative about his work to serve people on death row. 

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear takes a deep dive into Luke 10, where Jesus sends out disciples to disarm, heal and dismantle the empire through radical peacemaking.

In the latest episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Shane Claiborne talks to John Dear about the need to respond to ongoing global violence and environmental destruction.

McLaren explores how Jesus challenged the violent, authoritarian rulers of his day and how we can respond with bold, creative nonviolent action today.

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts longtime peace activist, Pax Christi leader and Catholic Nonviolence Initiative director Marie Dennis to talk about challenging the outdated just war theory.

In the third conversation with Sr. Joan Chittister for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Chittister challenges us to build a "Beatitudes Movement" that brings people together in small communities of action, resistance and deep faith.