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December 29th, 2025
Episode #52, A Special Year End One Hour Episode of Highlights of the Nonviolent Jesus Podcast from 2025!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate a year of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” we have created a special one hour year end episode of highlights which we hope you will enjoy!Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Robert Ellsberg! For more information, visit here.
January 5th, 2026
Episode #53, Robert Ellsberg on the Saints!
On the next episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” which posts on Monday, Jan. 5th, we start the New Year on a positive note listening to Robert Ellsberg, the Publisher and Editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, talk about his latest book, Volume 2 of Blessed Among Us, a massive collection of beautifully written short descriptions of hundreds of saints, prophets, and witnesses. He’s become the world’s leading expert on the saints, and listening to him is inspiring and uplifting.
Robert Ellsberg is the author of several award-winning books, including All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time; Blessed Among All Women; The Saints’ Guide to Happiness; and A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives. From 1975 to 1980 he was part of the Catholic Worker community in New York City, where he served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker and worked closely with Dorothy Day. He has edited six volumes of her writings, including Dorothy Day: Selected Writings; The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day; All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day; and Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings. He has written and edited many other volumes, including (with Sister Wendy Beckett) Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship.Next week…
The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast welcomes Charlene Howard of Pax Christi USA! For more information, visit here.
December 22nd, 2025
Episode #51, John Dear on the Epiphany Journey to the Nonviolent Jesus—and Civil Disobedience to the Tyrant!
This week on “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear takes a deep dive into Matthew 2, the famous story of the three Magi. He offers this Christmas reflection as four movements: 1) the journey to the nonviolent Jesus; 2) the epiphany of meeting the nonviolent Jesus; 3) what we do after we meet the nonviolent Jesus; and 4) the epilogue, how the empire, the culture of violence and war, reacts to the coming of the nonviolent Jesus and the threat of active nonviolence.Next week…
Join us for Highlights of The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast, 2025! For more information, visit here.
Upcoming Zoom Programs:
Paula D’Arcy, “Blessed are those who mourn”
Saturday January 24, 2026
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
Rev. Charlie McCarthy, “The Nonviolent Jesus Is, Before Abraham or the World Was”
Saturday February 14, 2026
11 am Pacific, 12 PM Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern
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’s new book now available
“The Gospel of Peace:
Reading Matthew, Mark & Luke
from the Perspective of Nonviolence”
To invite John Dear to speak in your city, write to: john@beatitudescenter.org
John Dear’s new book available February 10th, 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
January 2, 2026
Dear friends, Happy New Year!
On the next episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” Monday, January 5th, I speak with my friend Robert Ellsberg, the Publisher and Editor-in-chief of Orbis Books, about his latest book, Volume 2 of Blessed Among Us, a massive collection of beautifully written short descriptions of hundreds of saints, prophets, and witnesses. He’s become the world’s leading expert on the saints, and listening to him talk about them is inspiring and uplifting.
“I wanted to bring a different way of looking at the saints as normal human beings that looked for a new way to follow Christ,” he tells me. “I wanted to expand peoples’ conception of holiness, to raise the question, ‘Aren’t there all kinds of ways to live the Beatitudes?’ I’ve always been inspired by visionaries, artists, writers, poets, and mystics of other times.”
Robert is the author of several award-winning books, including All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time; Blessed Among All Women; The Saints’ Guide to Happiness; and A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives. From 1975 to 1980 he was part of the Catholic Worker community in New York City, where he served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker and worked closely with Dorothy Day. He has edited six volumes of her writings, including Dorothy Day: Selected Writings; The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day; All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day; and Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings. He has written and edited many other volumes, including (with Sister Wendy Beckett) Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship.