Public lecture with priest, peace activitist and author Rev. John Dear titled: The Gospel of Peace, Nonviolence in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
No charge (donations welcome)
Copies of Rev. John Dear’s book The Gospel of Peace will be available for purchase at the event.
Location:
All Saints Lutheran Anglican church, 210 Silvercreek Parkway N., Guelph, Visit the Church Website
Contact: Jon Fogleman, jonanddianne@rogers.com – 519-836-2946
About Rev. John Dear
Fr. John Dear is an internationally known author, activist and teacher of peace and nonviolence. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Barbara Mikulski, and several others.
He calls people to practice Gospel nonviolence, in the tradition of Gandhi and Dr. King, and to join the many global grassroots movements of nonviolence for the abolition of war, racism, poverty, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction. He has spoken to over a million people in his call for peace, and worked closely with legendary peacemakers such as Mother Teresa, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mairead Maguire, Cesar Chavez, Joan Baez, Martin Sheen, Rev. James Lawson, Jackson Browne, and Coretta Scott King.
He has traveled the world teaching, lecturing, organizing and practicing nonviolence, in pursuit of a more nonviolent world. A Catholic priest, he served as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States, in the late 1990s to 2001, and after September 11, 2001, as one of the Red Cross coordinators of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center, and counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. He has worked in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and community centers; traveled in warzones around the world, including Iraq, Palestine, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, India, and Colombia; lived in El Salvador, Guatemala and Northern Ireland; and in the 1990s arranged for Mother Teresa to speak to various governors to stop the death penalty. He has two Master’s Degrees in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California, and has taught at Fordham University.
John Dear has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Sun, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and elsewhere. For many years, he wrote a weekly blog for the National Catholic Reporter, and has been featured regularly on the national radio show “Democracy Now!” and the Huffington Post. He is the subject of the DVD documentary, “The Narrow Path” (with music by Joan Baez and Jackson Browne) and is profiled in John Dear On Peace, by Patti Normile (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2009).
His thirty five books, including The Beatitudes of Peace, They Will Inherit the Earth, Praise Be Peace, Living Peace, The Nonviolent Life, Radical Prayers, Lazarus Come Forth, The God of Peace, Jesus the Rebel, Disarming the Heart, Peace Behind Bars, The Questions of Jesus, You Will Be My Witnesses, Our God Is Nonviolent, The Sound of Listening, Seeds of Nonviolence, Walking the Way, Thomas Merton Peacemaker, Transfiguration, Mary of Nazareth, and his autobiography, A Persistent Peace, have been translated into ten languages. He has edited books about Daniel Berrigan, Mohandas Gandhi, Mairead Maguire, Henri Nouwen, Richard McSorley and Horace McKenna.