by Rev. John Dear (Celebrated Doctor and Founder of Partners In Health, which was 20,000 doctors and healthcare workers serving in the poorest countries of the world and has saved millions and millions of lives, died unexpectedly in his sleep on Feb. 21, 2022 in Rwanda, at the university and hospital he founded. He was...

by Rev. John Dear “To me, nonviolence is the all-important virtue to be nourished and studied and cultivated,” Dorothy Day wrote in 1967. She regretted that she had not done more to promote nonviolence as a way of life. I think we can all do more to nourish, study, cultivate and promote nonviolence as a...

By John Dear August 6, 2021 Recently, a peace activist friend told me about visiting a physical therapist to help with some issues. They got talking, one thing led to another, and the woman therapist told an unusual story. Years ago, she spent her junior year in college in Hiroshima, Japan. She stayed with a...

“One is called to live nonviolently,” Daniel Berrigan once wrote, “even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the United States around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.”   In some...

Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action in 20th century movements, died in Nyack, N.Y. on April 7th, 2021, from complications related to pneumonia. He was 89. “As a longtime leader of the global peace movement organization, the...