Welcome to the Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus!
Upcoming Zoom Programs:
“Come Alive with the Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman!” with Lerita Brown
Saturday October 26, 2024
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“Paul the Pharisee: A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization” with John Dominic Crossan
Saturday November 9, 2024
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Wisdom for a Time of Crisis” with Judith Valente
Saturday December 14, 2024
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“Human Rights and Peacemaking” with Kerry Kennedy
Saturday January 11, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“War Isn’t Over When It’s Over” with Kathy Kelly
Saturday January 25, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“The Little Way of Merciful Love: Real-World Mentoring from St. Therese of Lisieux” with Marisa Guerin
Saturday February 8, 2025
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
“The Gospel According to John,” A Lenten Series with Fr. John Dear
Monday, March 10th. Session #1—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 17th. Session #2—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 24th. Session #3—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, March 31st. Session #4—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Monday, April 7th. Session #5—4:00 PT/7 pm ET
Host Fr. John Dear on his 2024 Speaking Tour for his Forthcoming Orbis Book:
“The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence.”
For more info, click here
John Dear’s new book now available
“The Gospel of Peace:
Reading Matthew, Mark & Luke
from the Perspective of Nonviolence”
Call Orbis Books at 1-800-258-5838 and give them the special code: “JDT”
To invite John Dear to speak in your city, write to: john@beatitudescenter.org
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE BEATITUDES CENTER
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
October 8, 2024
Dear friends Blessings of Christ’s Peace!
I’ve been spending the past few months reading from the great spiritual teacher, theologian, mystic, and Civil Rights leader Howard Thurman in preparation for the next Beatitudes Center zoom with Dr. Lerita Brown on October 26th. She is one of the leading Thurman scholars and will reflect on his teachings from her beautiful book, What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman. Please join us!
Like many, I’ve been studying Thurman my whole life. When I entered the Jesuits in 1982, I immediately started reading everything I could find about Gandhi, Dr. King, Dorothy Day, and nonviolence—and that meant I had to read Thurman’s great masterpiece, Jesus and the Disinherited, the classic work which Dr. King carried around with him for years. I bought another copy this summer, and reread it, and found it as inspiring as I did 42 years ago.