A persistent peace : one man's struggle for a nonviolent world /

A nationally known peace activist recounts his decades-long journey, discussing his bold, decisive, and often unpopular actions before government officials, military leaders, and even hostile representatives of the Church.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dear, John, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Chicago, Ill. : Loyola Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Dear, John, > 1959-
Catholic Church > United States > Clergy > Biography.
Jesuits > United States > Biography.
Nonviolence > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Peace > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Frat boy (1978-79)
  • The day of conversion (1979-80)
  • The journey begins (1980)
  • Under arrest at the Vatican (1981)
  • Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1982)
  • A second calling in Galilee (1982)
  • Jesuit boot camp (1982)
  • Learning the life of peace (1982)
  • Thirty days of silence (1983)
  • The experiment, phase one (1983)
  • The experiment, phase two (1983)
  • First blood (1983)
  • Lenten Wednesdays at the Pentagon (1984)
  • Peacemaking in New York City (1984-85)
  • In the land of the Savior (1985)
  • Taking a stand in Nicaragua, at the Pentagon, and at West Point (1985-86)
  • Disturbing the peace in Scranton (1986-87)
  • Community and jail in New York (1987-88)
  • With the homeless in Washington, D.C. (1988-99)
  • Theology and vision at Berkeley (1989)
  • November 16, the Kairos moment (1989)
  • The fast (1990)
  • Zones of peace (1990)
  • Death row and Mother Tteresa (1990)
  • War in Iraq, resistance in the streets (1991-93)
  • Ordained to make peace (1992-93)
  • Down by the Riverside (1993)
  • They shall beat their swords into plowshares (1993-94)
  • In jail, on trail (1994)
  • Waiting in my cell (1994)
  • From house arrest to Rome (1994-95)
  • Trouble at the Smithsonian (1994-95)
  • In Richmond, at the Sacred Heart Center (1996)
  • Peace in Northern Ireland (1997-98)
  • The fellowship of reconciliation (1998-2000)
  • Peace mission to Iraq (1999)
  • Return to Palestine (1999)
  • The great forty days for peace (2000)
  • Death and the tombs of New York (2000-2001)
  • Life and death at ground zero (2001)
  • Kicked out of New York (2002)
  • Pastor in New Mexico (2002-4)
  • A voice in the Desert (2002-4)
  • Disturber of the peace (2002-3)
  • Sackcloth and ashes in Los Alamos (2002-4)
  • Soldiers at my front door.

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