The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast

Posted Every Monday

The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast is a free, weekly thirty-minute podcast, posted on every Monday, featuring Fr. John Dear and his reflections about Jesus, Gospel nonviolence, and peacemaking, and guests who teach, speak out, organize and work for a more just, most peaceful, more nonviolent world. Through these weekly reflections, we hope to inspire everyone to follow the nonviolent Jesus more faithfully and do our part to welcome God’s reign of peace with justice on earth!

To listen, click on any link below to hear past podcast.

To hear the latest podcast, click on the most recent link at the bottom of the list.

Below that, you will see some of the platforms which also host it, including Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Substack, as well as on the National Catholic Reporter.

March 16th. #63 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)

Jonathan is co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and co-founder of Nonviolence International. A well-known international human rights attorney, Jonathan practices in the US, Palestine and Israel. He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust. He was the head of the Legal Committee negotiating the Cairo Agreement of 1994 between Israel and the PLO.

“The war on Gaza is continuing even today,” he told me just before the US/Israel war on Iran. “They’re refusing medicine, food, journalists, aid, and they’re using the ceasefire to continue the genocide. The world is allowing this to continue, and it breaks my heart.”

“Most Christian Palestinians are nonviolent peacemakers, and have been since the 1st century,” he tells me. “For Palestinians, nonviolence is the best option for Christians, Violence does not work. It does not deliver what it is supposed to deliver. But the entire message of Jesus comes down to ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ The message of Jesus calls on all Christians to take a different position than the worldly powers. Christians need to condemn and not participate in the genocide going on today.

“It is possible for people to live together!” Jonathan concludes. “We have lived together peacefully in the past, and hopefully we will in the future. We are people of the Resurrection, and we believe God will have the last word so we have integrity to speak the truth in difficult times.” Listen in to this Palestinian voice for peace! God bless you.

Upcoming Podcasts

March 23rd. #64. John Dear in conversation with Daniel Hunter
March 30th. #65. John Dear in conversation with Kerry Kennedy
April. 6th. #66. John Dear in conversation with David Cortright
April 13th. #67. John Dear in conversation with Melanie Harris
April 20th. #68. John Dear in conversation with Jim Finley

To listen, click on any link below to hear past podcast.

To hear the latest podcast, click on the most recent link at the bottom of the list.

Below that, you will see some of the platforms which also host it, including Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Substack, as well as on the National Catholic Reporter.

March 9th. #62 for Monday, March 9th, 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.

“We work with people around the world who are most impacted by climate change,” Amy says. “We encourage people to get involved in local climate issues and make different choices that protect creation.” Check out their website to see some of their grassroots campaigns.

“We all see that natural disasters are bigger, more catastrophic and happening more often and everywhere,” she continues. “Scientifically, it is proven our climate is getting warmer, and our use of fossil fuels is the main contributor to global warming. Why is it okay to continue to use fossil fuels? The fossil fuel companies created a massive disinformation campaign that became politicized and promoted by politicians. We’re now living in a world that is breaking down because the global economy depends on fossil fuel. I’m excited to see so many countries embracing renewable energy, and people of faith involved in these struggles.”

“We are made for times like this,” Amy concludes. “This is exactly what people of faith are for. We don’t know have the right to sit still and give up.

We all need to find a community, get training, start showing up in public and do the work of organizing on behalf of humanity and creation.” Listen in and be inspired!