March 16th, 2026
Episode #63, John Dear in conversation with Jonathan Kuttab of FOSNA.org
On this week’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear speaks with Jonathan Kuttab of Palestine, executive director of FOSNA, Friends of Sabeel North America, the best Christian solidarity group working with Palestinians for peace. [See www.fosna.org www.jonathankuttab.org] (John has worked with them for many years and gave a keynote speech at the Sabeel conference in Bethlehem in 2008 with the Cardinal of Jerusalem. See: www.sabeel.org)Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Daniel Hunter! For more information, visit here.
March 9th, 2026
Episode #62, John Dear in conversation with Rev. Amy Brooks Paradise of Greenfaith.org
On this week’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear speaks with Rev. Amy Brooks Paradise of Greenfaith.org, a global, multifaith, grassroots network working to protect creation and resist environmental destruction around the world.Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Jonathan Kattub! For more information, visit here.
Upcoming Zoom Programs:
Sr. Helen Prejean, in conversation with John Dear, on the Holy Week Journey of the Nonviolent Jesus
Saturday March 28, 2026
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
John Dear on his new book, “Universal Love: Surrendering to the God of Peace”
Saturday April 18, 2026
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
John Dear’s new book available February 17th, 2026
Universal Love:
Surrendering to the God of Peace
By John Dear
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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
March 10, 2026
Dear friends, Christ’s blessings of peace!
This month, we grieve for all those our country is hurting, arresting, and killing at home and abroad, and look to the nonviolent Jesus for wisdom about how to live, pray, love, remain nonviolent, and resist the insanity of injustice and war. In a few weeks, we will begin Holy Week, and I thought it might be helpful to mark the occasion by walking through the story of the nonviolent Jesus together, so I invited my friend Sr. Helen Prejean to join me in conversation about the episodes of Holy Week.
Sr. Helen, author of Dead Man Walking and legendary activist against the death penalty, wrote back immediately and said, “Yes, of course. We can never talk enough about ‘the real Jesus,’ to help dispel the false image of the ‘John Wayne Jesus.’” Sr. Helen knows that as we study ‘the real Jesus’ in the Gospels, we learn all again how wrong we are about him, ourselves, life and God, and discover new depths of his loving nonviolence, and ways for us to carry on his transforming nonviolence, even amidst the insanity of our country and world.