John Dear
 
April 24-26, 2009   

Fri 6:30 p.m. dinner thru Sun lunch
Program $125; Room/Board $185     Total: $310   
EARLYBIRD: $35 off the total before March 24th.
CEUs, scholarships and commuter rates available. 

Author, pastor and activist John Dear will lead a weekend of prayer, reflection and Bible study related to what fortified and inspired these great spiritual leaders and activists for justice and peace. 
 
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 John Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, the former director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and a weekly columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Aware. As a longtime practitioner and teacher of nonviolence, he lectures, leads retreats and peace actions across the U.S. His many books include his new autobiography A Persistent Peace, a re-published Seeds of Nonviolence, and the popular Living Peace.
 
 John Dear spent eight months in North Carolina county jails for a Plowshares Action and has been arrested numerous times since then in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience for peace.  He has worked and witnessed for peace in other countries, as well.  After the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, John became one of the coordinators of the Red Cross chaplaincy program and worked with family members, firefighters and police officers. Today he lives in New Mexico where he helps coordinate Pax Christi New Mexico and works on a campaign to disarm Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb.  John holds masters degrees in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California.  For information, see www.johndear.org
 
 Other books by John Dear include: Jesus the Rebel,  Peace Behind Bars,  A Journal from Jail,  The God of Peace: Toward a Theology of Nonviolence, Disarming the Heart: Toward a Vow of Nonviolence,  The Sound of Listening,  The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience, Seeds of Nonviolence, Our God Is Nonviolent: Witnesses in the Struggle for Peace and Justice, and Oscar Romero and the Nonviolent Struggle for Justice.

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