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June 30th, 2025
Episode #26, Kathy Kelly, on Fasting for an End to the US-backed Israeli Genocide in Gaza

Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Cornel West! For more information, visit here.
July 7, 2025
#27, Cornel West on the collapse of the US empire, and the need to love our way through the darkness and cruelty

Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Art Laffin! For more information, visit here.
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Reading Matthew, Mark & Luke
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Quote for the Day:
“The wolf shall live with the lamb; the leopard shall lie down with the kid. The calf and the lion will feed together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the
adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the God of peace as the waters cover the sea.”
(Isaiah 11:6–9)
Quote for the Day:
“I am called in the Word of God — as is everyone else — to the vocation of being human, nothing more and nothing less … To be a Christian
means to be called to be an exemplary human being. And to be a Christian categorically does not mean being religious. Indeed, all religious versions of the gospel are profanities. In the face of death, live humanly. In the middle of chaos, celebrate the Word. Amidst Babel, speak the truth. Confront the noise and verbiage and falsehood of death with the truth and potency and efficacy of the Word of God. Know the Word, teach the Word, nurture the Word, preach the Word, define the Word, incarnate the Word, do the Word, live the Word. And more than that, in the Word of God, expose death and all death’s works and wiles, rebuke lies,
cast out demons, exorcise, cleanse the possessed,
raise those who are dead in mind and conscience.”
–William Stringfellow
July 3, 2025

Dear friends, Blessings of Christ’s Peace!
I’m happy to welcome back my friend Dr. Cornel West to speak on the next episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” which posts on Monday, July 7th. During our conversation, we discuss the state of the nation, Christian nationalism, democracy, racism, Jesus, Dr. King, and nonviolent resistance to tyranny.
“The country is in deep trouble,” Cornel has written. “We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that’s the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”
Like millions of others, I consider Cornel West the leading public intellectual in the US, right up there with Emerson and Web DuBois. Brother Cornel has recently served as the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. He is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13, and is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. (See: CornelWest.com)