John Dear

"Nonviolence means avoiding injury to anything on earth in thought, word or deed," the Indian activist once said. 

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with world-renowned theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas.

"We need to do some soul-searching and decide if this is a normal presidency or a presidency that has stepped outside the rule of law," she said.

On this episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with the leader of Pace e Bene, a Franciscan-based peace organization.

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear welcomes activist Brad Wolf to discuss a new book on the writings of Philip Berrigan.

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear welcomes teacher and organizer Terrence Rynne, who says resistance may require offending the powers that be.

"There is no exception, no justification, no permission for killing," John Dear says in this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast. "Killing our enemies is completely forbidden, because we are commanded to love them with agape love."

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with Michele Dunne, director of the Franciscan Action Network, a national mobilization of lay Franciscans working for justice and peace.

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.